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Lauren "Sawdust For Brains"
@verbingnouns.bsky.social
academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax + phonetics; R and stats and dataviz; art and craft and nature; immigrant to normal island; she/her|they/them; not funny (earnest)
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Oh my gosh I'm going to do this too!! What a good idea, especially considering the misconceptions about what it means to know a language, speak a language, or be fluent.

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making sure we all know about Pesto the giant penguin baby

Gigantic king penguin chick with his much smaller mum at Australian zoo
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So if they’re actually useful for something, there’s no way for humans to check their work and they get better at seeming like they’re giving reliable information. This seems fine *screams internally*

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Today Jimmy Carter is officially too old to play with Lego

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LFverbingnouns.bsky.social

Oooh, so would this be a meronym?

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Everyone is fine, though some objects are a little worse for wear.

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That thing where you have so much latent adrenaline that you can't tell the story of What Just Happened in chronological order.

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דער זעלבער!

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Omg my brother used to live on a street called Table Mesa too...! I bet it was the same one.

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Lauren "Sawdust For Brains"
@verbingnouns.bsky.social
academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax + phonetics; R and stats and dataviz; art and craft and nature; immigrant to normal island; she/her|they/them; not funny (earnest)
1k followers305 following3.1k posts