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Medieval Chinese erotica

The language of a money laundering forum

Equine excursions and explorations

The many myths about the Chinese typewriter

GPT-5 can parse headlines!

"Is the decline of writing making journalism dumber?"

Afro-Eurasian geography, history, mythology, and language in the Bronze Age

From the Vice Provost for Tokenization

Bioneural Frankinstein

"The ball will be in their … corner"?

"What makes an AI system an agent?"

Adverbial adjective of the month

Matteo Ricci and the introduction of the alphabet to China

Chinese learning English in Nepal

"Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms"

Two great lexicographers, Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster

Agentic culture

Chinese and English in Pakistan

Ask Language Log: "spends his/her/their time on"?

Spontaneous (dis)fluency

Memetic phrases

Watching videos at 2x speed, part 2

English "necessary" in Arabic translation

More on GPT-5 pseudo-text in graphics