As a linguist I’m rarely surprised when people start saying something new. Language change is the norm, not the exception, after all. The radio news media on the other hand doesn’t use natural language. They script and produce nearly everything they say, and even when they’re unscripted, They’re performers, professionals who are aware of being… Continue reading Sticky
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Theory of Mind
One morning recently, I was writing to a friend in academia who was teasing me about his smart speaker not responding as he’d liked. Going on a tangent, I was suggesting that it might not be long that people would be taking his classes so they could have a good background for getting into the… Continue reading Theory of Mind