○○○ 2020.09.16 ⪢⪢
In Mongolia demonstrators protested the arrival of China's top diplomat on Tuesday. Critics accuse China of suppressing native
language and culture in ethnic Mongolian areas within its borders.
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○○○ Ben Zimmer ⪢⪢
Ben Zimmer writes about
language for the Wall Street Journal. He says, "There has been a lot of debate recently about something that has been in our
language for centuries."
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○○○ A.D.S. ⪢⪢
From VOA Learning English, this is the education report. American
language experts have chosen "they" as the 2015 word of the year. The American Dialect Society, or A.D.S., voted on the issue at a conference in Washington.
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○○○ Sunday ⪢⪢
In ancient Latin Sunday was Dies Solis for the Sun God but in the Christian era it was renamed Domonicas for lord's day.
Most of the Romance
languages use a desendant of that but in English and Germanic
languages it is still named for the sun. #Greece
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○○○ LaMDA ⪢⪢
Lemoine has stated that he has conducted extensive interviews and research of Google's
Language Model for Dialog Applications also known as LaMDA. #bookmark
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