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Yeah, I thought you might have feelings about this.

I think the linguist who did this work still has notes floating around the internet somewhere, but it amounts racism as vibecoding.
October 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
This is very much a hot take, so I'm totally open to a linguist (or anyone) telling me I'm talking out my ass!
October 12, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Interviewer: can you explain this parasitic gap in your resume?

Linguist: well, it's one of those situations that you need to experience in order to describe
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

Cognitive scientist: The study of mind is historically full of explanatory gaps, so that gap is par for the course.
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

Paleoecologist: A gap in the fossil record could be caused by poor preservation (conditions aren’t good for fossils) or by the erosion of sediments if they are exposed to the elements. These gaps can range from centuries to millions of years.
October 12, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

Linguist: many languages “elide” or drop bits of language that aren’t relevant or informative in the current context. (i.e., mind your damn business)
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

Paleoecologist: A gap in the fossil record could be caused by poor preservation (conditions aren’t good for fossils) or by the erosion of sediments if they are exposed to the elements. These gaps can range from centuries to millions of years.
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

Geomorphologist: Water gaps are fascinating landforms. I mean, that river didn't flow uphill over that ridge and then slice down through it. Did you know we have several great examples right here in Wisconsin?
October 12, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I am but a lowly computational linguist who once TA'ed a class in (checks notes) language modeling, many years ago in the Before Times, but (3) seems to be simple enough for any sensible person to understand
the problem is primarily that you have to be up to your neck in pseudomathematics in order to even understand how they're mistaken.

in order:

(1) their "Bayesianism" is not Bayesianism;
(2) even MIRI now admits that Hutterian AIXI is impossible;
(3) information theory forbids their metaphysics
October 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

Linguist: See, there's this thing called wh-movement...
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV?

Planetary astronomer: it’s because of an undiscovered planet that’s just beyond our current detection capability. We need a bigger telescope.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

Scientist: I made it in TeX and can't figure out how to remove the gap but I also don't want to get yelled at if I post a question on stackexchange, so I have instead decided to appreciate the gap, which is still there
October 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV?

linguist: oh, that’s a null phonetic/phonological manifestation of an underlying morphosyntactic realization of complex employer-employee semantics.
interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV?

pollster: oh, that's fine, it's ignorable nonresponse
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

Graphic Designer: One of the flaws of convert pdfs to text is it removes kerning and the space between o and w is often tricky
October 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
He’s a linguist!
October 12, 2026 at 9:10 PM
My uninformed understanding is that Finnish is further from Hungarian than English is from Farsi but I would need a linguist to confirm, this was just what I heard
October 12, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Dying will do that to you.

(as a linguist I think there are some other problems, but that’s the mcguffin, and other very good works have the same functional mcguffin, so I’ll allow)
October 12, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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October 12, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Great to see this on bsky. Would you consider posting on Linguist List too?
October 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
With the caveat that I'm a linguist, not an archaeologist, my understanding is that it's a legitimate Norwegian coin from the 1000s. But that does not mean a Norse-speaking traveler dropped it in Maine then; something so small could have been traded over a vast distance, or dropped in modern times.
October 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Linguist: First of all, an empty space on a speech spectrogram is the principal sign that a plosive is happening.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Photographer: It’s called negative space and it’s an important part of balancing a composition.
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your résumé?

Wiccan: Thensly did i attend The Goddess among the sacred evergreens of the disappearing isles. Though the Fae spoke not, they whispered their wishes in the language of colors and flavors, of dreams and memories, both sweet and bitter to behold.
October 12, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

Linguist: oh yeah your font doesn't support that writing system
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

NLPer: It's a BOS token
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

Metascientist: Let me apply for 100 more jobs. If I get enough of them, it doesn't matter.
October 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
As a linguist, I'm impressed with this lady's nonverbal communication at a Trump rally.
This lady speaks for all of us. 💙🇺🇸
October 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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October 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV?

Linguist: The Sea Peoples
October 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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October 12, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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October 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Hello, Bluesky! I'm a Birmingham poet, linguist and percussionist, currently working on two poetry collections, 50nnets and Carrion men.

Thought I'd introduce myself with a poem. This one's called Some different republic.
October 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Having lived & worked in the UK, the US & Aotearoa-NZ - I find myself using both! & linguist to linguist - I still haven't figured out my internal rules for when I choose one or the other, lol
October 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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October 12, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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October 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

Linguist: It's a voiceless phoneme, non native speakers often have a challenge with it
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

Scientist: I made it in TeX and can't figure out how to remove the gap but I also don't want to get yelled at if I post a question on stackexchange, so I have instead decided to appreciate the gap, which is still there
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your résumé?

John Cage:
October 12, 2026 at 10:36 AM