Merriam-Webster: Word of the Year 2023
[...] with the rise of artificial intelligence—and its impact on deepfake videos, actors’ contracts, academic honesty, and a vast number of other topics—the line between “real” and “fake” has become increasingly blurred.
Authentic is what brands, social media influencers, and celebrities aspire to be.
Atlas Obscura: The Muddled Origins of the Word ‘Viking’
Kiwi Hellenist: The camel, the rope, and the needle's eye
DocCheck Flexikon: Paraskavedekatriaphobie
Diagnostiziert von Dottore KP-Gontßo.
The Guardian: ‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year
1000-Word Philosophy: The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny? (2022)
Spektrum.de: Überzeugen: Wie man Kompetenz zeigt, ohne angeberisch zu wirken
Correctura: gespalten oder gespaltet?
Nature: AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.
Wikipedia: Orthographic depth
The orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter–phoneme correspondence. It depends on how easy it is to predict the pronunciation of a word based on its spelling: shallow orthographies are easy to pronounce based on the written word, and deep orthographies are difficult to pronounce based on how they are written.
Wayne State University: Words that deserve wider use
COSMOS: Language was born in the hands
Laion: LeoLM: Igniting German-LanguagE LLM Research
We proudly introduce LeoLM (Linguistically Enhanced Open Language Model), the first comprehensive suite of German-language Foundation Language Models trained in collaboration with HessianAI on their new supercomputer 42!
Grammarphobia: Is this ‘which’ dead?
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Wikipedia: Kümmeltürke
Der Ausdruck Kümmeltürke stammt aus der Studentensprache des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts und bezeichnet ursprünglich einen Studenten, der aus der näheren Umgebung seiner Universität stammt.
Asia Media Centre: Shinzo Abe or Abe Shinzo? A basic guide to using Asian names