The best thing about coming home after a month away is book mail. (A close second is getting to sleep in my own bed.)
I took advantage of the Bookshop & BN sales that competed with Amazon‘s Prime Day but I left before they arrived. So yay! Plus I got two of my Allstora subscription books (the David Sedaris & Rufi Thorpe books). Then I picked up the Hawaiian Word Book at the HNL airport.
It‘s #WeirdWordWednesday I‘m sharing the cover of the final book in a trilogy today. I‘ve previously shared the covers of the first two books, because the titles are all #WeirdWords, which I hope you all have enjoyed.
The magical library---with its intricate voice-activated dioramas of scenes from literature, and desks on which unfold a multi-media experience when a book is set down just so upon them---is just one of many awesome word-oriented exhibits at Planet Word in Washington, DC. We had such a blast there! If you're in town, I highly recommend visiting. (Their gift shop is also extremely tempting, and the cafe downstairs is delicious.)
#WeirdWordsWednesday This picture is the cover of a book I haven‘t read. It‘s actually the second book in a trilogy that I haven‘t read. But I really like the covers and the books sound interesting.
It was nice to revisit it and read it again after so many years. I am happy to say that it feels even more relevant than ever before, still super easy to read and very thought-provoking. Highly recommended!
Check out our discussion about it on the Mind Duck Books podcast ep.72 : https://bit.ly/4ezhvSk
#karel #capek #robot #rur #artificial #inteligence #ai #large #language #model #gpt
I don‘t have the book yet but I thought it would be fun to share the cover for #WeirdWordsWednesday.
pickSeries of pop linguistics essays in the form of answers to questions. A good introductory overview of the subject. It did leave me with questions, though. I did start wondering in some of the later parts about pragmatics whether it applied to everyone or just English speakers. And the section on gesturing while speaking, how does that apply to people speaking sign languages?
