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Said “Four” on Coursera NLP quiz (about text norm!); marked wrong. Retake: “4” marked correct. Robot grader not so good at text norm. #irony

WTH, Seattle: snow?! In March?

@jazzlinguist black swans exist, but disprove apocryphal “all swans are white”. Stats models don’t suffer with a single counterexample.

@GRAMMARHULK @FEMINISTHULK … GRAMMARHULK WELCOME IN DESCRIPTIVIST POSSE. BIZARRO AM UNWELCOME TOO

@nmashton probably so, but I don’t know the latter, so I can’t be sure they aren’t isomorphic at some deep level.

@nmashton so your sentence reads “these few dozen unicornate languages…” ? (engineering might say “low model-theoretic probability”, BTW)

@feministhulk HULK SO MAD HULK FORGET TO OMIT AUXILIARY VERBS. cc @GRAMMARHULK (and amen to original sentiment!)

@nmashton pls tweet your “unicornate” exemplar sentence. I’m an empiricist. If you use it w/o linguist’s *, it works for me. @maryam_bakht

@nmashton @drjavafox what is “dis-predicted” besides “improbable”? maybe you *do* want “black-swannish” if 1 counterexample sinks the theory

@maryam_bakht @nmashton of course, “unicornish”, “unicornate” and “unicornoid” are also possibilities. N->J productive morphology FTW!