nationality ≠ ethnicity
Brazilians are “latino” but not “hispanic” while Spaniards are “hispanic” but not “latino”. #LatAm
Brazilians are “latino” but not “hispanic” while Spaniards are “hispanic” but not “latino”. #LatAm
“How do you pronounce Biemlfdlkk? The brands lost in translation.” economist.com/business/2025/…
“Faith in God-like large language models is waning” apple.news/AMVjOi3PYRs2P8…
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl… The city of 700 languages | National Geographic
nationalgeographic.com
The city of 700 languages
New York is the most linguistically diverse city on the planet. Can it stay that way?
Rident stolidi verba Latina. —Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – AD 17/18)
Genius is nothing but youth recaptured at will. —Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 – 1867)
Truth is in ‘the discarding of words.’ It lies ‘outside words.’ —Yasunari Kawabata (1899 - 1972)
We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All wsj.com/tech/ai/how-ai…
wsj.com
We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All
The vast ‘brains’ of artificial intelligence models can memorize endless lists of rules. That’s useful, but not how humans solve problems.
As linguists, we do not translate or interpret mere “words” — we convey “units of meaning” from one language into another.
“Translators do the writing. Interpreters do the talking.” atanet.org/client-assista…
“For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does.” aeon.co/essays/can-com…
“Since the way we speak often has nothing to do with the reality that surrounds us, machines are – and will continue to be – puzzled by the metaphorical nature of human communications.” theconversation.com/could-the-lang…
Language is a natural product of our humanity. —John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
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