On these permission seeking conversations, see this excellent blog post by Mark Dingemanse
ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe...
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Don’t seek permission, center values – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
March 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
On these permission seeking conversations, see this excellent blog post by Mark Dingemanse
ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe...
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ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe...
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calling the town dunce on the ideophone and laughing when he picks up
in sicilian you can apparently call someone stupid by just quacking at them
July 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
calling the town dunce on the ideophone and laughing when he picks up
there is an interesting asymmetry in our willingness to ascribe linguistic capacities to non-humans: animals tend to be seen as having none, whereas computers are increasingly thought to have mastered language ideophone.org/language-bet...
Language between animals and computers – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
December 24, 2024 at 9:11 AM
there is an interesting asymmetry in our willingness to ascribe linguistic capacities to non-humans: animals tend to be seen as having none, whereas computers are increasingly thought to have mastered language ideophone.org/language-bet...
Why synthetic text is incompatible with science blogging ideophone.org/why-syntheti...
Delve away, dig yourself into a hole. I'll pass.
Delve away, dig yourself into a hole. I'll pass.
Why synthetic text is incompatible with science blogging – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Why synthetic text is incompatible with science blogging ideophone.org/why-syntheti...
Delve away, dig yourself into a hole. I'll pass.
Delve away, dig yourself into a hole. I'll pass.
Bihar / Tomorrow
Don't miss it!
#Basque #Euskara
#Linguistics #Ideophone
@ehu.eus @iphunizar.bsky.social
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Don't miss it!
#Basque #Euskara
#Linguistics #Ideophone
@ehu.eus @iphunizar.bsky.social
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📚 📢 Del 25 al 27 de noviembre, nuestra #psylexera @iraideia.bsky.social participará en "First International Conference on the History of Basque ( #ICHB1 ) (📍Vitoria-Gasteiz) donde presentará el póster titulado:
🗣️“THE BUMPY ROAD OF BASQUE IDEOPHONES IN THE HISTORY OF BASQUE GRAMMAR”.
🗣️“THE BUMPY ROAD OF BASQUE IDEOPHONES IN THE HISTORY OF BASQUE GRAMMAR”.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Bihar / Tomorrow
Don't miss it!
#Basque #Euskara
#Linguistics #Ideophone
@ehu.eus @iphunizar.bsky.social
⬇️⬇️⬇️
Don't miss it!
#Basque #Euskara
#Linguistics #Ideophone
@ehu.eus @iphunizar.bsky.social
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New on the blog: Finding continuers across languages — ft. work by @cborstell.bsky.social and Hannah Lutzenberger ideophone.org/finding-cont... #linguistics #replication
Finding continuers across languages and modalities – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New on the blog: Finding continuers across languages — ft. work by @cborstell.bsky.social and Hannah Lutzenberger ideophone.org/finding-cont... #linguistics #replication
It has been pointed out that he seems to be seeking permission for his sloppy AI use. His manly Twitter readers are happy to grant it, but the bsky crowd is not. On permission seeking in generative AI debates, I recommend this wonderful blog post.
Don’t seek permission, center values – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
March 12, 2026 at 6:09 AM
It has been pointed out that he seems to be seeking permission for his sloppy AI use. His manly Twitter readers are happy to grant it, but the bsky crowd is not. On permission seeking in generative AI debates, I recommend this wonderful blog post.
Alur (Ukoko et al.) has an ideophone for "something white spread over a wide surface".
Does any other language lexicalise this rather particular meaning?
Does any other language lexicalise this rather particular meaning?
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Alur (Ukoko et al.) has an ideophone for "something white spread over a wide surface".
Does any other language lexicalise this rather particular meaning?
Does any other language lexicalise this rather particular meaning?
In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues
I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal
ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...
I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal
ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...
On plagiarism, predatory publishers and creating the future we want – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:51 AM
In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues
I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal
ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...
I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal
ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...
Plot twist: True human-generated and human-curated information —of the kind produced, for instance, by academics in observations and publications— will become more scarce, and therefore more valuable. Counterintuitively, there was never a better time to be a scholar. ideophone.org/large-langua...
Large language models and the unstoppable tide of uninformation – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Plot twist: True human-generated and human-curated information —of the kind produced, for instance, by academics in observations and publications— will become more scarce, and therefore more valuable. Counterintuitively, there was never a better time to be a scholar. ideophone.org/large-langua...