at a job interview
"whats your biggest weakness?"
"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"
"could you give an me an example?"
"yes i could"
"whats your biggest weakness?"
"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"
"could you give an me an example?"
"yes i could"
April 22, 2026 at 3:53 PM
at a job interview
"whats your biggest weakness?"
"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"
"could you give an me an example?"
"yes i could"
"whats your biggest weakness?"
"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"
"could you give an me an example?"
"yes i could"
pragmatics, 2026
May 18, 2026 at 12:45 PM
pragmatics, 2026
"would you like to argue over semantics, syntax, or pragmatics today?"
"hmmmm. semantics."
"daring today, aren't we?"
"hmmmm. semantics."
"daring today, aren't we?"
*kneeling down to touch the ground*
be careful. there has been transgender vs transsexual discourse recently. keep sharp.
be careful. there has been transgender vs transsexual discourse recently. keep sharp.
August 5, 2024 at 6:51 PM
"would you like to argue over semantics, syntax, or pragmatics today?"
"hmmmm. semantics."
"daring today, aren't we?"
"hmmmm. semantics."
"daring today, aren't we?"
amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM
amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"
I'm delighted to announce the 5th edition of Programming Language Pragmatics! I joined Michael Scott as a coauthor. We updated the semantics chapter to use inference rules, & substantially updated coverage of types, OO, codegen, Rust ownership & safe concurrency, async, traits & more!
May 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'm delighted to announce the 5th edition of Programming Language Pragmatics! I joined Michael Scott as a coauthor. We updated the semantics chapter to use inference rules, & substantially updated coverage of types, OO, codegen, Rust ownership & safe concurrency, async, traits & more!
For something fresh that conveys a sense of open questions in the field, perhaps try Levinson 2024, The Dark Matter of Pragmatics www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
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September 25, 2026 at 8:17 PM
For something fresh that conveys a sense of open questions in the field, perhaps try Levinson 2024, The Dark Matter of Pragmatics www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Happy to be part of this edited volume on #evolutionary #pragmatics - another great collaboration with @symbolicstorage.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Happy to be part of this edited volume on #evolutionary #pragmatics - another great collaboration with @symbolicstorage.bsky.social
ah, pragmatics
February 1, 2024 at 4:51 PM
ah, pragmatics
The Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics meets the father of Experimental Pragmatics! @irastamon.bsky.social thanks for the visit! #NEPLab
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics meets the father of Experimental Pragmatics! @irastamon.bsky.social thanks for the visit! #NEPLab
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Every political scientist should take a class in pragmatics. The power of the words is in the worlds that they create.
Every political scientist should take a class in pragmatics. The power of the words is in the worlds that they create.
one thing i don't think a lot of centrists get is that what the president says is a speech-act, not just simple discourse; when he says something with the power of the presidency behind him, that means something
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Every political scientist should take a class in pragmatics. The power of the words is in the worlds that they create.
Every political scientist should take a class in pragmatics. The power of the words is in the worlds that they create.
And then I realized that audience was hollow. The algorithm doesn’t promote speech like mine. It doesn’t drive views to the essays I write.
It wasn’t just that Elon bought Twitter. It was that he ruined it.
So I left. Not because of purity. Because of pragmatics.
It wasn’t just that Elon bought Twitter. It was that he ruined it.
So I left. Not because of purity. Because of pragmatics.
August 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
And then I realized that audience was hollow. The algorithm doesn’t promote speech like mine. It doesn’t drive views to the essays I write.
It wasn’t just that Elon bought Twitter. It was that he ruined it.
So I left. Not because of purity. Because of pragmatics.
It wasn’t just that Elon bought Twitter. It was that he ruined it.
So I left. Not because of purity. Because of pragmatics.
Well hello, may I introduce you to the field of pragmatics.
January 21, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Well hello, may I introduce you to the field of pragmatics.
at this point it's so obvious you have to operate on the assumption that they know and don't care, that the concerns over "electability" allowed a backdoor takeover of these socialist parties by a generation of vaguely liberal careerists who're antisocialist on principle rather than pragmatics
January 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
at this point it's so obvious you have to operate on the assumption that they know and don't care, that the concerns over "electability" allowed a backdoor takeover of these socialist parties by a generation of vaguely liberal careerists who're antisocialist on principle rather than pragmatics
Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵
Kenneth Black, Common Ground, Conditionals, and _Ceteris Paribus_ Pragmatics - PhilArchive
In conversation, we make use of shared information in order to communicate. But what shared information? In theorising about conversation, it’s popular to allot a privileged position to a single body ...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵
I have a joke about pragmatics. It doesn't really matter what the words are, though, as long as you laugh.
March 18, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I have a joke about pragmatics. It doesn't really matter what the words are, though, as long as you laugh.
Learning #linguistics with memes is the best.
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Lesson 7/9: Semantics vs. Pragmatics
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Lesson 7/9: Semantics vs. Pragmatics
October 1, 2023 at 3:38 PM
Learning #linguistics with memes is the best.
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Lesson 7/9: Semantics vs. Pragmatics
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Lesson 7/9: Semantics vs. Pragmatics
Inferential pragmatics rules.
BBC News just informed me that the world’s oldest living person has died.
That’s just a lie, isn’t it? The world’s oldest living person is fine. Sort it out BBC.
That’s just a lie, isn’t it? The world’s oldest living person is fine. Sort it out BBC.
August 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM
Inferential pragmatics rules.
started reading a paper about pragmatics and half way through, i no longer feel confident that i know what pragmatics is
February 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
started reading a paper about pragmatics and half way through, i no longer feel confident that i know what pragmatics is
Agreed, computational approaches fall apart at pragmatics. Every text has pragmatics, which needs to be maintained in the process of summarizing. But that is only possible if the pragmatics can be understood. Yet, pragmatics is (to date) computationally intractable.
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Relevant paper:
📝 van de Braak, L., de Haan, R., @dingemansemark.bsky.social, Toni, I., van Rooij, I., & @blokpoel.bsky.social (2024). Intractability obstacles to explanations of communication. Proceedings of ICCM2024. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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📝 van de Braak, L., de Haan, R., @dingemansemark.bsky.social, Toni, I., van Rooij, I., & @blokpoel.bsky.social (2024). Intractability obstacles to explanations of communication. Proceedings of ICCM2024. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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May 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Agreed, computational approaches fall apart at pragmatics. Every text has pragmatics, which needs to be maintained in the process of summarizing. But that is only possible if the pragmatics can be understood. Yet, pragmatics is (to date) computationally intractable.
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Promoted to Professor of Semantics and Pragmatics at @ox.ac.uk @jesusoxford.bsky.social @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social
Thankful for all the support and mentorship along the way.
Thankful for all the support and mentorship along the way.
August 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Promoted to Professor of Semantics and Pragmatics at @ox.ac.uk @jesusoxford.bsky.social @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social
Thankful for all the support and mentorship along the way.
Thankful for all the support and mentorship along the way.
the thing is that Cuomo was an incompetent governor and would be a worse mayor
it’s not like you have to weigh the moral issue against pragmatics—the pragmatics also argue against electing him
it’s not like you have to weigh the moral issue against pragmatics—the pragmatics also argue against electing him
April 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
the thing is that Cuomo was an incompetent governor and would be a worse mayor
it’s not like you have to weigh the moral issue against pragmatics—the pragmatics also argue against electing him
it’s not like you have to weigh the moral issue against pragmatics—the pragmatics also argue against electing him
"I just want a burger I don't want to learn the pragmatics of whatever this exchange is"
December 29, 2024 at 6:02 PM
"I just want a burger I don't want to learn the pragmatics of whatever this exchange is"
To accept the facile, false pragmatics of sacrificing a minority group to appease the fascists is to accept both that the logic of fascism can be satisfied (Moloch can never be satiated, fascism will always find a new enemy) and is fundamentally anti-solidarity bsky.app/profile/nate...
A very small number of philosophers have hammered this point home again and again. Maybe it will slowly break through to the rest of the academy: anti-trans logic is fascist logic. It is the logic underlying anti-abortion, anti-migrant and antisemitic logic bsky.app/profile/alet...
A defense of the claim that the anti-abortion and anti-trans movements are two sides of the same coin, going into issues like shared propaganda styles and the underlying metaphysics that essentializes gendered social hierarchy as a natural state of affairs. lysistrata327.substack.com/p/against-th...
February 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
To accept the facile, false pragmatics of sacrificing a minority group to appease the fascists is to accept both that the logic of fascism can be satisfied (Moloch can never be satiated, fascism will always find a new enemy) and is fundamentally anti-solidarity bsky.app/profile/nate...
Semantcs and Pragmatics
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July 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Semantcs and Pragmatics
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#art #painting
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www.onhansen.com
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