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halcy​:icosahedron:

@liaizon this is one thing that people who have not worked with language often don't really get: language, as it is spoken in reality, does not meaningfully care about grammar. it's actually amazing.

20 Sep 2022 at 13:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on icosahedron.website
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@halcy it actually makes me want to try to having come conversations with different sorts of folks and try transcribing them exactly as they are spoken and then look into what the patterns really are. I am sure there are lots of papers about this but it would be interesting to see how much it varies

20 Sep 2022 at 13:05 | Open on social.wake.st
halcy​:icosahedron:

@liaizon haven't done any work in actual transcription, but I'd assume there's research into it (though I did at some point have to look at some transcribed speech and for fun I just pulled up transcriptions of the Switchboard corpus, opened just any random file and:

have uh the thing that that bothers me worse than the credit cards i think is uh you mentioned the gasoline credit card
[...]
i don't have that but i've got you know one of the [vocalized-noise] the
[...]
uh instant teller cards

it's incredible that during normal conversations unless you pay attention you don't notice the mess that comes out of your mouth because brain good

@liaizon haven't done any work in actual transcription, but I'd assume there's research into it (though I did at some point have to look at some transcribed speech and for fun I just pulled up transcriptions of the Switchboard corpus, opened just any random file and:

have uh the thing that that bothers me worse than the credit cards i think is uh you mentioned the gasoline credit card
[...]
i don't have that but i've got you know one of the [vocalized-noise] the
[...]
uh instant teller cards

20 Sep 2022 at 13:15 | Open on icosahedron.website
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