Ace Linguist

I come bearing more articles on language-related posts and news!

I promise I'll write about things besides Japanese and LLMs.

While watching a video, I encountered this anecdote: When the novelist Soseki Natsume (1867–1916) was an English teacher, one of his students translated the English phrase “I love you” as 我君を愛す / ware kimi o aisu.

In my last post on ChatGPT, I wrote about ChatGPT's love for 'gremlins': I would like to finish off with some random comments that I couldn't quite fit elsewhere.

A leak from gaming company GameFreak had a curious note that caused fans to go wild.

Ten years ago, on this date and at this hour and minute, I wrote the very first post for "Ace Linguist."

A casual observation.

Hello!

Today's topic is Billy Joel and the inconsistent appearance of the New York accent in his music.

Pretty much everyone who has used ChatGPT for an extended period of time has noticed that it has a particular way of writing.

I'm curious to know if anyone else likes to play 'games' with phonology every now and then.

Added a new left navigation bar to the layout!

Wanted to share this - on April 17, Ace Linguist passed 1 million views!

A reader sent me an email asking me for information on the relationship between the Japanese trilled R, yakuza speech, and working class masculinity.

Some interesting links I've found this month.

I recently encountered the following party game: Mumbo Jumbo, based on trying to pronounce a word while wearing a mouth-stretcher.

Hello, happy to report that I have made another appearance on Paul Meier's fantastic podcast, "In a Manner Of Speaking"!

Since September 2017, I've been updating posts to the site monthly.

I'd been hoping to launch a better tool for lexical set analysis this month, but it didn't work out.

No post this month due to personal circumstances.

In the anime “Chihayafuru,” a team of high schoolers plays a card game called ‘karuta’.

The IPA is a pretty good invention, allowing us to transcribe languages with as much precision as we feel is necessary.

We all know when someone is listing something in a speech, but what is it about the intonation that tells us a list is happening?

Things are, hopefully, looking a little better.

Hello, no post for February due to the usual reasons (too many obligations).