How can you tell if a news story is intended to deceive? In one well-known case of journalistic deception, there were tells that required machine learning to trace. We’re talking to author and computational linguist Jack Grieve about his new book, The Language of Fake News.
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Russia Bans Use of Foreign Words
https://www.languagemagazine.com/2023/03/03/russia-bans-use-of-foreign-words/
Russia bans government officials from using most foreign words
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-bans-government-officials-using-most-foreign-words-2023-02-28/
Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/01/europe/italian-government-penalize-english-words-intl/index.html
Mispronouncing ‘bruschetta’ could soon cost thousands of euros in Italy, where politicians want to pass a law to penalize ‘Anglomania’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mispronouncing-word-bruschetta-could-soon-004936894.html
Zelensky Signs Ban on Russian Place Names in Struggle Over National Identity (NYT, unlocked)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/world/europe/zelensky-russian-ban-ukraine.html
Florida Republican introduces ‘Reject Latinx Act’
https://thehill.com/latino/3973974-florida-republican-introduces-reject-latinx-act/
If Hispanics Hate the Term “Latinx,” Why Is It Still Used?
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/why-is-latinx-still-used-if-hispanics-hate-the-term
Punjabi now Australia’s fastest growing language, prompting calls for it to be taught in schools
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-01/punjabi-language-schools-australia-education/102159580
Jack Grieve’s Homepage
https://sites.google.com/view/grievejw/home?authuser=0
The Language of Fake News
Book page:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/language-of-fake-news/7B37014A5C0768AEE806167E8ADD5897
Who coined the phrase ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’?
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10022/who-coined-the-phrase-rapid-unscheduled-disassembly
What is ‘algospeak’? Inside the newest version of linguistic subterfuge
https://theconversation.com/what-is-algospeak-inside-the-newest-version-of-linguistic-subterfuge-203460
Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/algospeak-tiktok-le-dollar-bean/
Selected Works by M.C. Escher
https://mcescher.com/gallery/
The Gömböc: The object that shouldn’t exist
https://plus.maths.org/content/gomboc-object-barely-exists
The Impossible Triangle | DENMAC
https://www.denmac.net.au/projects/urban-art/the-impossible-triangle
Library tiling inspired by work of Nobel prize-winner Sir Roger Penrose
https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library-tiling-inspired-work-nobel-prize-winner-sir-roger-penrose-0
Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem (NYT, unlocked)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/science/mathematics-tiling-einstein.html
“microdosing on living in a different time zone than my partner by simply having a completely different sleep schedule than him”
https://www.tumblr.com/exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear/712590192526147585/microdosing-on-living-in-a-different-time-zone
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