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Adjective Clauses, Part 2: Who vs Whom
If you havenât read my previous post about adjective clauses, now would be a good time to do so. As the totally real saying which I definitely didnât just make up goes, âthereâs never a bad time to brush up on your adjective clauses!â When writers need to identify someone to the reader, the adjective clause is a handy way of doing so. (Noun Phrase Appositives are another good option. Choices! WeâŠ
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I asked ChatGPT to write this blog post, and here's what happened next
Iâve been playing around with ChatGPT, as one does, and, in thinking about the risks and benefits to using ChatGPT in the classroom, I got curious: how would ChatGPT write a blog post about ChatGPT, if it were me? So I noodled for a bit, wrote up a prompt, and let the language learning model do its thing. Letâs go through the results together. Iâve noticed that ChatGPT has trouble nailing voiceâŠ
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man the crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really itâs teaching them about the concept of a book and how thereâs new information on each page of a single object, but really, beyond that, itâs teaching them how language works, and beyond that itâs really actually teaching them about human interaction, and really really itâs them learning about existing in a three-dimensional space and how they can navigate that space, but actually, above all it is teaching them that mama loves them.
The enjoyment I get from removing the wax packaging from a lil cheese wheel is immediately aligned with entertainment zoo animals get when they have to solve a puzzle or get into a box to find a treat. Iâm just an ape and the babybel cheese people are my enrichment team
I think about this post a lot. I talk about it a lot. Itâs to the point where, at work when we donât like someone, we go, âthat person is NOT on my enrichment teamâ because apparently the biggest insult, we think, is that that person is not successfully zooing us.
this is incredible thank you for telling me
Adjective Clauses, Part 1: What the Hell is an Adjective Clause, Anyway?
Adjective Clauses, Part 1: What the Hell is an Adjective Clause, Anyway?
As writers, weâre often called upon to describe people, places, and things. Iâve written before about noun phrase appositives, which are handy little structures, but they arenât the only tool for the job.Â
If youâve got a passing familiarity with the parts of speech in English â thanks to the education you received in your formative years or, more likely, experience playing the game Mad Libs â youâŠ
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Bust Through Writer's Block Like a Boss with this One Simple Activity
Bust Through Writerâs Block Like a Boss with this One Simple Activity
The hardest part of writing is the writing part.
Iâm not kidding. Getting started? Sometimes it feels impossible. And when you do manage to get started, you sometimes hit a wall.
If youâve had this happen to you â if you have this happen to you a lot â youâre not alone. As Anne Lamott writes in âShitty First Drafts,â a chapter from her book Bird By Bird: Some Instruction on Writing and Life, âFoâŠ
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Teachers: Wikipedia is very unreliable *Hands out 25 year old textbooks instead*
Alrighty guys ,gals, and other genders and lack thereof Iâm gonna teach ya a thing.
A lot of teachers will go on about not using wikipedia as a source.
âItâs bad,â they say. âI will deduct points if you do it.â
Well wikipedia is actually a great source of information and fuck what your teacher said, you absolutely can use it.
The key though is knowing
A.How to use it.
B. How to source it.
and
C. whether it is good info or trash.
NowFirst Lets look up something on wikipedia. Say your writing a paper on Gregor Mendel and Mendelian Inheritance.
So you zoom over to the Wikipedia page on Mendelian Inheritance.
Now there is a lot of information here. Not all of it is strictly necessary for that essay you are writing. So you read through and suddenly you see something that is good info for your essay.
Boy oh boy this information is useful. To bad your teacher said No Wikipedia Ever.
However there is a loophole.
Itâs right there.
No. Go closer.
You see that little four? Its a citation number. Think of wikipedia as itâs own essay. It got itâs information from other sources out there. Just like you are trying to right now. And since there is a citation, itâs going to be listed at the end of the wikipedia article.
Look at citation number 4
Look at that you have your first citation. From Wikipedia.
And look. Do you see it. There is a link. Itâs the blue words with the boxy arrow thingamajig.
That thing. Click it.
Why did you leave wikipedia you ask? Wikipedia is great. You have several sources from there. But There is more than what the put in to that wiki article. Those sources Wikipedia gave you are helpful. And now that you are at the source, you can utilize it.
But what if its a book thatâs the source.
You can either head to your local library and see if they have it, order it, or avoid the book source. Online sources are just as valuable.
Also do not quote directly from the wikipedia. Quote from the source and then use quote citation.
And MLA citation. Use MLA citation. Since you are linked to the sources cite them. Not the wikipedia.
Your teacher will never know. And now you can finish that sweet essay you got planned.
Youâre on your way to greatness.
For anybody not aware you can abuse the absolute fuck out of Wikipedia for any papers!
Iâm an academic librarian and I 100% endorse this post
I am also an academic librarian and I 100% endorse this post. CITATIONS are important.
Word of the dayâŠ..
todayâs word is fucktangular
You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? Itâs the way you can express âI donât knowâ without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?
These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that arenât strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (thatâs not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh⊠(oh, I seeâŠ), hmmn⊠(I wonder⊠/ maybeâŠ), awww! (thatâs cute!), aww⊠(darn itâŠ), um? (excuse me; that doesnât seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody elseâs displeasure or distress), etc.
Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like âumâ and âermâ are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically âvocableâ itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.
Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them
Sentence Combining with Subordinating Conjunctions
Sentence Combining with Subordinating Conjunctions
Some writers donât join their ideas. Each idea ends up in its own sentence. The writer doesnât use coordinators. The writer doesnât use subordinators. The writer doesnât make transitions. This makes the sentences seem âchoppy.â The connections between ideas are sometimes unclear to the reader.
In this post, Iâm going to focus on subordinating conjunctions, a set of handy words used to joinâŠ
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every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!
me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me
May I add something, because I will never shut up about this book (Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark):
Finally, some good fucking advice
You all, fools: *getting tattoos based on the ancient tattoos they find on bog mummies and the other ancient dead that for all you know will bind you to a forgotten god that now by all rights has a claim on your life for better or for worse*
Me, and intellectual: *doesnt fucking do that*
A forgotten god cannot run my life any worse than I am currently running it myself.
Bog mummy take the wheel
More fun facts about ancient Celtic marriage laws: There were no laws against interclass or interracial marriage, no laws against open homosexual relationships (although they werenât considered âmarriagesâ since the definition of a marriage was âcouple with childâ), no requirement for women to take their husbandâs names or give up their property, but comedians couldnât get married
Itâs Adam and Eve not Adam Sandler and Eve
I want to expound upon âcomedians couldnât get marriedâ thing because itâs actually really interesting. Satire was respected in Ancient Ireland. It was thought to have great power, enough to physically maim the subject one was making jokes about. Satirists could bring down kings with a witty enough insult. That was actually their original function. When the king didnât do right by his people, a bard was supposed to compose a poem so scathing it would raise welts on the kingâs skin to oust him (it was illegal for a âblemishedâ king to rule.) Unwarranted satire was considered a form of assault. So what it boils down to is ancient Celts being like âThese people are too dangerous to reproduce. DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH CHILDREN. EVER.â
whats a king to a bard
Thats literally a dnd skill
Vicious mockery at sixth level
Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVosâ ridiculously bad house for Vox.Â
Update: Iâve gotten a lot of nasty emails about how Iâm lazy and entitled forâŠ(looks at smudged ink on hand)âŠworking hard at my job to pay off my debts.
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Artificial intelligence systems and machine-learning algorithms have come under fire recently because they can pick up and reinforce existing biases in our society, depending on what data they are programmed with.
For example, adjectives such as âintelligent,â âlogicalâ and âthoughtfulâ were associated more with men in the first half of the 20th century. But since the 1960s, the same words have increasingly been associated with women with every following decade, correlating with the womenâs movement in the 1960s, although a gap still remains.
The research also showed a dramatic change in stereotypes toward Asians and Asian Americans.
For example, in the 1910s, words like âbarbaric,â âmonstrousâ and âcruelâ were the adjectives most associated with Asian last names. By the 1990s, those adjectives were replaced by words like âinhibited,â âpassiveâ and âsensitive.â This linguistic change correlates with a sharp increase in Asian immigration to the United States in the 1960s and 1980s and a change in cultural stereotypes, the researchers said.
âThe starkness of the change in stereotypes stood out to me,â Garg said. âWhen you study history, you learn about propaganda campaigns and these outdated views of foreign groups. But how much the literature produced at the time reflected those stereotypes was hard to appreciate.â
Overall, the researchers demonstrated that changes in the word embeddings tracked closely with demographic shifts measured by the U.S. Census.
I like this idea of IPA Chart Battleship from @vocalfriespod so much that I want to file it here in my teaching linguistics tag.
Clever!
