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PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
University of Washington linguist Emily Bender studies LLMs and has consistently warned that language models are simply unverified text synthesis machines.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
In How Language Began, author and linguist Daniel Everett makes the controversial claim that our ancestors had been chatting with each other well before our species evolved.
—Madeleine Beekman
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne, a pair of linguists who specialize in online language and gestures respectively, offered an answer.
—Longreads, 1 July 2025
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PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
University of Washington linguist Emily Bender studies LLMs and has consistently warned that language models are simply unverified text synthesis machines.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
In How Language Began, author and linguist Daniel Everett makes the controversial claim that our ancestors had been chatting with each other well before our species evolved.
—Madeleine Beekman
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne, a pair of linguists who specialize in online language and gestures respectively, offered an answer.
—Longreads, 1 July 2025
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Noun
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Cleyvis Natera, a literary novelist, turns to the genre for craft elements.—
Rebecca Ackermann,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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Daniel’s commercial failure as a novelist impelled him to move to Los Angeles to try writing for the movies.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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If so, this pocket-sized storyteller will be an instant favorite.—
Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Hafez has also conceived the hub as a launchpad for emerging storytellers giving them access to the necessary tools and support to refine their voice and craft world-class content.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Simon Njami is an independent curator and a lecturer, art critic, and essayist.—
Simon Njami,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist.—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.—
Adam Graham,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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