My main concern over Trump's inauguration speech is he'd take the original Russian language version.
January 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My main concern over Trump's inauguration speech is he'd take the original Russian language version.
free speech, it turns out, is only about the freedom to use racist language
June 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
free speech, it turns out, is only about the freedom to use racist language
Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
web.stanford.edu
January 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
April 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
Can’t believe the guy whose love language is hate speech didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Can’t believe the guy whose love language is hate speech didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize
Whether it’s liberal tweaking their language to be more gender inclusive or Elon Musk tweaking Grok to say more positive things about Adolf Hitler, both sides have a free speech problem.
July 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Whether it’s liberal tweaking their language to be more gender inclusive or Elon Musk tweaking Grok to say more positive things about Adolf Hitler, both sides have a free speech problem.
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
web.stanford.edu
August 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
when someone tells you their main issue is “free speech” you just know they know every slur in every language and is currently using 100% of their brain capacity on which ones apply to you
January 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
when someone tells you their main issue is “free speech” you just know they know every slur in every language and is currently using 100% of their brain capacity on which ones apply to you
Trump talked about closing the Department of Education during just about every campaign speech he made. He was extremely explicit about it -- no coded language. Maybe people didn't understand what they were doing, but they voted for this.
November 12, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Trump talked about closing the Department of Education during just about every campaign speech he made. He was extremely explicit about it -- no coded language. Maybe people didn't understand what they were doing, but they voted for this.
getting dommed by a couple of girls speaking a different language so u feel like a dog that doesn't understand human speech would go crazy
August 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM
getting dommed by a couple of girls speaking a different language so u feel like a dog that doesn't understand human speech would go crazy
I'm one of the few non-binary voice actors who has vocally transitioned while recording.
Here's an example of a role I worked before and during puberty: Enkidu from the FATE series.
I've also authored trans-centric speech therapy curriculum alongside trans Speech Language Pathologists.
Here's an example of a role I worked before and during puberty: Enkidu from the FATE series.
I've also authored trans-centric speech therapy curriculum alongside trans Speech Language Pathologists.
June 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm one of the few non-binary voice actors who has vocally transitioned while recording.
Here's an example of a role I worked before and during puberty: Enkidu from the FATE series.
I've also authored trans-centric speech therapy curriculum alongside trans Speech Language Pathologists.
Here's an example of a role I worked before and during puberty: Enkidu from the FATE series.
I've also authored trans-centric speech therapy curriculum alongside trans Speech Language Pathologists.
Today, Pauline Hanson complained about people who have difficulty speaking English. Luckily, her speech provided the perfect example for anyone wanting to learn the language.
June 17, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Today, Pauline Hanson complained about people who have difficulty speaking English. Luckily, her speech provided the perfect example for anyone wanting to learn the language.
I wrote something based on @andycraig.bsky.social's oped about the new "free speech crisis" specifically calling out how the biggest attackers of free speech use the language of free speech to suppress the speech of others. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/t...
The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech
There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the weaponization of “free speech” rhetoric, combined with abuses of the judicial sy…
www.techdirt.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I wrote something based on @andycraig.bsky.social's oped about the new "free speech crisis" specifically calling out how the biggest attackers of free speech use the language of free speech to suppress the speech of others. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/t...
Biggest concern I have with Trump’s inauguration speech is he accidentally takes the original Russian language text.
July 16, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Biggest concern I have with Trump’s inauguration speech is he accidentally takes the original Russian language text.
it's weird how deliberately misunderstanding the parts of speech that make up the nuts and bolts of language is like. a key strategy for fascists
May 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
it's weird how deliberately misunderstanding the parts of speech that make up the nuts and bolts of language is like. a key strategy for fascists
Collar that removes your ability to process language so you can't read or understand speech, and replaces your vocalization with pet sounds.
Art by: @subdivisionsart.bsky.social
Art by: @subdivisionsart.bsky.social
October 29, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Collar that removes your ability to process language so you can't read or understand speech, and replaces your vocalization with pet sounds.
Art by: @subdivisionsart.bsky.social
Art by: @subdivisionsart.bsky.social
A "polite" bigot is still dangerous. Hate speech shrouded in academic language is still hate speech. Manners without respect are hollow and insidious.
December 15, 2024 at 3:35 AM
A "polite" bigot is still dangerous. Hate speech shrouded in academic language is still hate speech. Manners without respect are hollow and insidious.
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf is currently delivering a speech accusing his party's critics of using language that will put his colleagues' lives at risk.
In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago
In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago
July 15, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf is currently delivering a speech accusing his party's critics of using language that will put his colleagues' lives at risk.
In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago
In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago
Has anyone noticed the language police that are sprouting like weeds all over the government and corporate America? Free speech? Not so much.
March 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Has anyone noticed the language police that are sprouting like weeds all over the government and corporate America? Free speech? Not so much.
I mean, it does a certain amount of violence to the English language to call it a speech, doesn’t it?
April 2, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I mean, it does a certain amount of violence to the English language to call it a speech, doesn’t it?
One other thing re Rayner and ILR. Look at the clarity of language in her speech and compare it Paul Ovenden’s execrable waffle supporting Mahmood’s policy the other day.
Orwell was right, obfuscatory and flowery political language disguises poor political thinking.
Orwell was right, obfuscatory and flowery political language disguises poor political thinking.
March 18, 2026 at 7:11 AM
One other thing re Rayner and ILR. Look at the clarity of language in her speech and compare it Paul Ovenden’s execrable waffle supporting Mahmood’s policy the other day.
Orwell was right, obfuscatory and flowery political language disguises poor political thinking.
Orwell was right, obfuscatory and flowery political language disguises poor political thinking.
Is speech not his first language?
September 24, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Is speech not his first language?
"Language Police Have Taken Over the White House" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Opinion | The MAGA War on Speech
If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Language Police Have Taken Over the White House" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
My mother is a speech and language therapist, and there’s an example she uses to explain how we develop language. The cup. As a baby, you start with no language. Then you will starting using a cup around the same time that you start understanding the word ‘cup’ when it’s said to you. 2/
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My mother is a speech and language therapist, and there’s an example she uses to explain how we develop language. The cup. As a baby, you start with no language. Then you will starting using a cup around the same time that you start understanding the word ‘cup’ when it’s said to you. 2/