@Cyrus @antoniahamilton Maybe, but this was attested from a native speaker.
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@Cyrus @antoniahamilton Maybe, but this was attested from a native speaker.
@antoniahamilton I have heard of pedants calling for "may" in requests for permission (objecting to "Can I use the bathroom?"). But requests for somebody else to do something?
Received a grammar question about requests like "May you update the team?" ("may" instead of "would" or "can"). Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? #Linguistics #modality
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@evanmiltenburg One word: dessert.
@leon There's an interesting line of work on metrics for interannotator agreement in NLP (by Massimo Poesio, for example).
But raw agreement/F1 + discussion of the class distribution may be good enough in practice for giving a rough impression of quality.
@leon Reviewers often do expect kappa scores though. I have been known to present raw agreement in the text with a disclaimer about kappa in a footnote.
@EvilJoeMcVeigh Any past participle can work in this construction, not just "been", right? "I been" and "I seen" in the second panel are the same construction I believe. I don't have it in my dialect, but I certainly recognize it. The "I've seen" surprises me there—is it a deliberate shift between styles?
For me, in casual speech, a 2nd person question licenses omission of the auxiliary ("You been asleep?", "You seen anything you want?") more readily than others: *He been asleep?
@nsaphra I prefer mercury in centigrade.
@dingemansemark Eventually it'll become a circle. :)
@dingemansemark Neat! Did the hexagon predate the octagon?
@ocramz May be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFQz03C2Pq8
@nsaphra Stealing the name Useless Week
@msherr And, if the research cited in this piece is correct, it'll help students remember the language model's BS better! But I don't see how the stuff about having to adapt one's writing is relevant in the slightest if one is copying from a computer.
Someone really should create a course entitled Installing Python Libraries Written in C++ on Your Mac