<p>I realised I've now been around here for several years and tooted a ridiculous number of things so it's time for an updated intro to pin to my profile. </p><p>I'm Joanna. I live in Melbourne on the lands of the Kulin Nation. </p><p>I'm a legal administrator for a conservation not-for-profit. It makes me really happy that my spreadsheet wrangling helps protect threatened creatures and landscapes. In my spare time I'm a (very) amateur but enthusiastic birder- I'm sure neighbours who see me pointing cameras up at trees think I'm strange. I'm obsessed with <a href="/tags/eurovision/" rel="tag">#eurovision</a>, get a lot of joy out of trashy dance music and have been getting into <a href="/tags/musicaltheatre/" rel="tag">#MusicalTheatre</a>. I'm always interested in <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> recommendations. I post quite a bit about things happening in <a href="/tags/melbourne/" rel="tag">#Melbourne</a> and love discussing what might make this place better. Long walks through Melbourne make me happy. I'm an amateur <a href="/tags/photographer/" rel="tag">#photographer</a>, mostly of <a href="/tags/architecture/" rel="tag">#architecture</a> and cute animals (instagram links in bio). I'm also currently trying to learn to speak <a href="/tags/indonesian/" rel="tag">#indonesian</a> </p><p>Some other interests I probably won't post that much about but would be interested to follow discussions on are <a href="/tags/christian/" rel="tag">#christian</a> <a href="/tags/theology/" rel="tag">#theology</a> and spirituality, <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#linguistics</a> and Indigenous history and culture.</p>
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<p>Today and tomorrow colleagues and I are organising a two-day workshop on the use of LLMs for linguistics research at <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@UniKoeln" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>UniKoeln</span></a></span>: <a href="https://sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a>. This was originally intended as a small, university-internal event, but we have found that there is a lot of interest from colleagues and students about this topic so we are delighted to have 15 poster presentations, in addition to four brilliant keynote speakers, and a concluding panel discussion. 1/🧵 </p><p><a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#research</a> <a href="/tags/academia/" rel="tag">#academia</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#linguistics</a></p>
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<p>"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wi</span><span class="invisible">de_Web</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076</span><span class="invisible">806447333</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/worldwideweb/" rel="tag">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">#chinese</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#linguistics</a></p>
<p>Hello:<br>This is my account for posting about conlangs and following conlangers.<br>Luidhrandir is a Sindarin word meaning "Blue wanderer". In other instances I am Bluvaganto, which carries the same meaning in <a href="/tags/esperanto/" rel="tag">#Esperanto</a>.<br>I'm also interested in <a href="/tags/tokipona/" rel="tag">#TokiPona</a> <a href="/tags/lojban/" rel="tag">#Lojban</a> <a href="/tags/elefen/" rel="tag">#ELEFEN</a> <a href="/tags/kotava/" rel="tag">#Kotava</a> <a href="/tags/sindarin/" rel="tag">#Sindarin</a> <a href="/tags/quenya/" rel="tag">#Quenya</a> and many others.<br><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#Introduction</a> <a href="/tags/présentation/" rel="tag">#Présentation</a> <a href="/tags/presentación/" rel="tag">#Presentación</a> <a href="/tags/newhere/" rel="tag">#NewHere</a> <a href="/tags/nouveauici/" rel="tag">#NouveauIci</a> <a href="/tags/nuevoaquí/" rel="tag">#NuevoAquí</a> <br><a href="/tags/conlang/" rel="tag">#Conlang</a> <a href="/tags/conscript/" rel="tag">#Conscript</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#Linguistics</a></p>
<p>Hello from Philippines! <a href="/tags/helloworld/" rel="tag">#HelloWorld</a> <a href="/tags/philippines/" rel="tag">#Philippines</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#linguistics</a></p>
<p>my husband just came in here and said "distims your doshes, refuses to elaborate, leaves" and left </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak</a></p><p><a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#linguistics</a></p>
<p>If people who follow you on social media are called "followers", what do you call people you follow?</p><p><a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#linguistics</a> <a href="/tags/poll/" rel="tag">#poll</a></p>
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<p>Has anyone noticed that trump speaks with some features of the <a href="/tags/iowan/" rel="tag">#Iowan</a> accent? I don't think it's the accent exactly, more the cadence or enunciation maybe? I noticed this when listening to interviewees at the Iowa state fair. </p><p>I then discovered that the Iowan accent is considered the most friendly and wondered if he'd adopted this way of speaking purposefully. Fake like his tan, hair, height, weight etc.</p><p>Would love to get some opinions.</p><p><a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#Linguistics</a> <a href="/tags/iowa/" rel="tag">#Iowa</a> <a href="/tags/accent/" rel="tag">#accent</a> <a href="/tags/accents/" rel="tag">#accents</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a></p>