I'd send warm wishes,
but since Climate's changed winters,
that's no longer cool.
#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #winter #warm #heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #metaphor #imagery
I'd send warm wishes,
but since Climate's changed winters,
that's no longer cool.
#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #winter #warm #heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #metaphor #imagery
Our first keynote speaker is @tschfflr from the Ruhr University Bochum. Tatjana's talk is entitled "Linguistic analysis with LLMs? The case of discourse and pragmatics" and she's brought along no fewer than three studies from her team's work on metaphor detection in religious language, the semantics and pragmatics of emojis, and the detection of hate and candy speech. Her implications for #linguistics research are both very cautious and optimistic as to the future of linguistics. 3/🧵
But what do we mean by LLMs exactly? To ensure that everyone is on the same page, co-organiser @nilsreiter is giving a pre-workshop lecture "An Introduction to Large Language Models: LLMs 101". Attendees get introduced to important distinctions such as user prompt vs. system prompt, pre-training vs. fine-tuning, and commercial vs. locally-run open-source models. 2/🧵
Our first keynote speaker is @tschfflr from the Ruhr University Bochum. Tatjana's talk is entitled "Linguistic analysis with LLMs? The case of discourse and pragmatics" and she's brought along no fewer than three studies from her team's work on metaphor detection in religious language, the semantics and pragmatics of emojis, and the detection of hate and candy speech. Her implications for #linguistics research are both very cautious and optimistic as to the future of linguistics. 3/🧵
Just published: A volume on “Professions as Religious Metaphors” in our @sfb1475 Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. It’s a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was “God’s jobs” 😉.) https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434 #Metaphor #MetaphorsOfReligion #ReligiousStudies
Just published: A volume on “Professions as Religious Metaphors” in our @sfb1475 Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. It’s a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was “God’s jobs” 😉.) https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434 #Metaphor #MetaphorsOfReligion #ReligiousStudies
Just published: A volume on “Professions as Religious Metaphors” in our @sfb1475 Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. It’s a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was “God’s jobs” 😉.) https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434 #Metaphor #MetaphorsOfReligion #ReligiousStudies
This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference of @sfb1475, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor projects – #CRC1646 and #MetaNet – about future collaboration, and finally the initial publication of our dataset of metaphor annotations: https://doi.org/10.60517/tt44pq55t 🥳
This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference of @sfb1475, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor projects – #CRC1646 and #MetaNet – about future collaboration, and finally the initial publication of our dataset of metaphor annotations: https://doi.org/10.60517/tt44pq55t 🥳
The massive glacial flow in Blatten is a good metaphor, I guess.
"We had been aware of cracks, of pressure; we knew it was serious enough to prepare, but no one expected *this*. Yet in retrospect we should have. Huh."
And someone has to find a new shelter someplace "safer", and look after the kids, and make food on a temporary stove, and deal with paperwork.
And in a superdiverse alpine landscape, a thousand ledges and outcrops and gullies with gentians and mosses and evanescent bulbs...are gone.
But the company that conveniently sold and delivered that stove, and the company that makes diesel diggers rooting through the rubble, and the company that sold cloud computing services to the geological survey department, and the tourist airlines worried about a drop in revenue, and the insurance brokers...they adjust their business practices to deal with any temporary effect on future economic growth and then just market all the harder.
"In retrospect we should have. Huh."
सर्वं दु:खम्। सर्वमनित्यम् । सर्वमनात्मकम् ।
