The sound of "wet strike" in Italian!
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Bias found in AI models diagnosing skin diseases across demographics
An international research team led by Assistant Professor Zhiyu Wan from ShanghaiTech University has recently published groundbreaking findings…
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While most Israelis use cursive, there are great reasons to learn print too:
🧠 Reinforces Reading — Writing print boosts letter recognition and reading speed.
✍️ Beginner-Friendly — Simpler to write and great for building confidence.
📚 In All Learning Materials — Workbooks, signs, books — they all use print!
📝 Still Used in Daily Life — Labels, signs, whiteboards — even Israelis use print when clarity matters.
👧 Israeli Kids Start with Print — It’s the foundation before cursive.
🎨 Used in Art & Judaica — From cards to ketubot, print is everywhere!
Cursive is for fast writing — but print is for building fluency.
Why not master both?
The sound of "scream" in Slovenian!
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Wednesday 24 July 1963
ITV was flooded with complaints last night after the broadcast of End of Conflict, a play about soldiering set in the Far East. The play contained such expletives as “bloody”, “bleeding” and “bastard”. Mr George More O’Ferrall, who directed the play, said, ‘The words were used in context. I did, however, cut out a great number of “bloodies”.’
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BELLY PLEA. The plea of pregnancy, generally adduced by female felons capitally convicted, which they take care to provide for, previous to their trials; every gaol having, as the Beggar's Opera informs us, one or more child getters, who qualify the ladies for that expedient.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Quickly grabbed a photo (as you can see from how badly it's framed) of a cardiac chart in Albanian. #Anatomy #Medicine #Language #Albania
The Michael Scott meme “I declare bankruptcy!” is actually a good demonstration of performative speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-m3RtoguAQ
Also Wikipedia has three different pages to describe this concept, which seems somehow appropriate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_verb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_act
I first discovered how one's brain will panic and plug in a word from any foreign language when it cannot find the foreign language word it's searching for (If you know >2 languages).
What's surprising is that I find myself doing it with ASL "words" as well, even though I've forgotten most of the ASL I learned in 2 semesters long ago.
I've found myself trying to use ASL for "beautiful", "sorry" and "now" when I don't yet know those words in Albanian. #Language
🗓️ Can you believe we're already in the second half of the year?!
Here's something fascinating about living in Israel -
We use a mix of Hebrew Jewish months AND Gregorian January-to-December months! 📅
That's why knowing how to pronounce January through December in Hebrew is SO practical!
The good news?
It's not hard at all -
Most are just pronunciation tweaks of what you already know ✨
Which one sounds the most fun to you?
Drop your favorite in the comments! 👇
Fun fact: You'll hear these Gregorian month names in:
🏢 Business meetings
📺 News broadcasts
💬 Casual conversations
📱 Social media posts
🎉 Event planning
Master these and you'll sound so much more natural in everyday Hebrew conversations!
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The sound of "drinking" in Kazakh!
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Japan's kids have summer projects to do. From book reports to research projects, here’s how parents can help — with a grammar lesson to boot. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/24/language/japanese-children-screens-summer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #summer #parenting #children
"Real thinking is very different from glib cocktail-party banter filled with technical terms."
Douglas Hofstadter tries to disabuse a true believer in sentient LLMs:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/are-llms-starting-to-become-a-sentient
#AI #LLM #ChatGPT #DouglasHofstadter #tech #technology #language
The sound of "stuttering" in Armenian!
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Hello from Belgium! #HelloWorld #Belgium #language #linguistics
"They're building a heat map of how language actually works. Not how we think it should work. How it does work."
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