I caught myself using "comment" at the end of a French sentence to mean "too". Because كمان.

🚨 72-year-old Mahvash Sabet, a member of the persecuted Bahá'í community in Iran, is being denied critical medical care while imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Sabet, who suffers from a severe lung disease, requires specialized treatment that cannot be provided in prison,

As a Uyghur lawyer, the cruelty of oppressive regimes is not foreign to me. But over the years, I witnessed how cruel the Iranian regime can get. Kinoosh Sanjari, who’s been imprisoned & tortured for two decades time, took his own life in protest against the regime’s detainment

Linguists often portray their differences as deep disagreements on the nature of scientific inquiry and dismiss rival theories as philosophically flawed. But I feel it usually boils down to specific disagreements re/ which counterexamples we suspect can someday be explained away.

Every neuron in your brain (every cell in your body!) has the potential for universal computation. Hessam Akhlaghpour describes why that's important, and one way RNA, and it's secondary structure, could have evolved that ability using combinatory logic. braininspired.co/podcast/199/

Is "ter-temiz" Turkish-style reduplication (like "simsiyah" and "sapsarı") or is it simply Persian "tar" plus "tamiz"? Persian speakers seem to have analyzed is as the latter (since they usually say "tar o tamiz"), but this Turkish reference grammar book says it's the former.

The 500-days-of-summer meme where they both love OT scholarship, with Optimality Theory on the right and the Old Testament on the left.

An aid worker helped refugees fleeing ISIS in Syrian Kurdistan, she's now on the verge of execution in Iran. The death sentence for #PakhshanAzizi is confirmed by Supreme Court, and enforcement office is notified. Humiliated abroad, the Islamist regime terrorises its own peoples.

In which I argue that word order and stress are related, and that's why the elements that tend to come last in English (e.g. objects, manner adverbs) happen to receive sentential stress in left-branching languages (e.g. Turkish, Persian). glossa-journal.org/article/id/115…

When Google Scholar realizes you care about both stress and Persian poetry and decides to mess with you

I was reading a linguistics paper, I saw the phrase "following much recent work", and suddenly its oddness struck me. I realized I might have never seen it outside of Ling papers. So I searched, and yes, most of the results are from Linguistics papers!

I think it's pretty cool that Persian, Arabic, and English (the only three written languages most Iranians ever deal with) agree on /-i/ being a suffix for making adjectives out of nouns.

There's been lots of discussion on generative linguistics and generative AI. Eva Portelance and I chime in here, suggesting that Neural Language Models (NLMs) reinforce key tenets of Chomsky’s approach in at least 3 fundamental ways, and that in turn, generative linguistics can

Call for papers: 1st Workshop on NLP and Large Language Models for the Iranian Language Family silkroadnlp.org/callforpapers

ChatGPT seems useful for shortening things you’ve written and expanding things you’re trying to read (e.g., getting commentary for a formula). Apparently people use it to expand what they’ve written and shrink what they’re supposed to read.

We accepted "Indigenous languages of the Americas and their structures: Sounds" by The Saguaro Group langsci-press.org/catalog/book/5…