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I'm a mom, yogi, and linguist posting here: https://substack.com/@womenwritinboutai
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Sounds Like a Machine (opens the original)
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Update, September 2026: After I published this article, a commenter pointed me to Naomi Truan’s August 18 essay, “Messiness, But Within Limits.” I had not seen or read her piece before writing or publishing this one. Enregisterment is a fairly well-known sociolinguistic phenomenon. Most people use both the UK English example and Pittsburghese to teach about this, and a quick YouTube search will show that the latter is useful because there are lots of explainer videos about it (not to mention mov
How to be adopted in ten steps (opens the original)
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First, don’t get aborted. That’s the trickiest part. Once you’re past that, try to be a non-deformed white girl. Worked for me anyway.Second, let people tell you how lucky you are. How grateful you should be for this family that saved you from who knows what. Anything could’ve happened. A trailer park! A lascivious grandfather! Cousins with cool-whip containers for salad bowls! Thank goodness you got your parents and your situation! They prayed for you for SO LONG.Third, tell everybody that you’
I Can’t Read Normally Anymore (opens the original)
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First of all, I’m a delight. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="434" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TKqk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F930a3658-
The Citation Exists. The Claim (or Author) May Not. (opens the original)
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Last week, I was credited with a presentation I did not give, at an event I did not attend, on a subject I only tangentially study.The email came from a graduate student who had recently attended the University of Birmingham Corpus Linguistics Summer School. She wrote thoughtfully (and somewhat Claudishly) about my supposed presentation on the ethics of collecting and analyzing healthcare data, including research on palliative care and healthcare providers attending the funerals of terminally il
AI’s Favorite Hedge Has a Certainty Problem (opens the original)
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Everyone’s talking about “it’s not X, it’s Y” this week, thanks to Will Oremus’s Atlantic piece on negative parallelism, the construction that gave us “the target was never a man, the target was the truth” (Michael Flynn) and roughly nine-brazilion LinkedIn posts about how a setback was “not a failure —
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