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@kdaisy now temp “Research Linguist” at SRI through most of July. Enjoy the work; partly holding while @imtboo & I solve “2-body problem”

@KevinBMcGowan …me too! if you want my assistive-typing term paper, email me (see profile) & I’ll see if I can dig it up

GET reports on Kenobi covert action, via @stevesilberman : http://wrd.tw/khyZID (“Too soon?” he says) nails it. the comments are great too.

@milesosborne yes; may be what @jasonbaldridge is saying; I’ve heard that too. OTOH lots of room btw competence grammar & “no ling. insight”

@KevinBMcGowan T9 plan wd’v been awesome… in 2002. Post-iPhone & Blackberry? maybe no. Assisted typing? (I may have a term paper on it smwr)

@jasonbaldridge statistical models *always* incorporate linguistic abstraction, even if it’s only “word sequence”.

For the p.m. crowd (a.m. in Europe): New Trochaism: Chomsky and “walks like a duck” empiricism https://trochee.net/2011/05/walks-like-a-duck/

@macchiacho … can’t decide if I’m relieved or embarrassed it WASN’T me — did I just out myself as a bossy Caltrain commuter? #yes #yesidid

@macchiacho @caltraindiaries pretty sure that was me. Sorry, pre-boozing Giants fans make me crazy.

@zoltanvarju a “straw man argument” means attributing an opinion to yr opponent that they don’t really hold (and which is easier to attack)