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   @bibliolater @linguistics @ai Styles have epistemologies under them, just like learning management systems embody epistemologies and pedagogies. Far too few people engage in those issues. Canvas gets sold to educational administrators by its looks, a lot like APA and MLA are sold to undergraduates.

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     @bibliolater @linguistics @ai How does one fix immaturity, posturing and prejudice anywhere? I don't see it being easier to solve among academics than among any other group.

     APA has matured greatly since its "let's be like physics" positivism phase but a few great thinkers really do not steer the minds of the many just trying to get another publication out in order to keep their jobs. And so many undergrads are told "APA style" or "MLA style" merely for obedience, not with critical purpose.

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     @libroraptor @linguistics @ai What would you advise by way of reforming the situation?

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     @bibliolater @linguistics @ai We have long been pushed this way in the name of "scholarly" tone, especially in the social sciences. The whole APA manual was developed expressly to purge scholarly writing of individual bias, and there's no shortage of reviewers and reviewers out there who demand crabbed verbiage on the grounds that it is "formal" and "academic". Or who forbid passive voice. How many of them are actually rhetors? They simply don't know – what they exercise is mere prejudice.

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     Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 (bibliolater@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 07:37:04 JST Bibliolater 📚📜🖋

     🔴 **Losing our voice? Fears AI tone-shifting tech could flatten communication**

     Robert Booth

     _Prof Rob Drummond, a sociolinguist at Manchester Metropolitan University, said: “We are giving control of forming our identity to a machine. It is creating an extra layer of inauthenticity to this identity creation. I do wonder if longer term people are going to react against that.” He described automatic tone changing as “the ultimate superficiality”._

     🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/11/ai-tone-shifting-tech-could-flatten-communication-apple-intelligence.

     #Linguistics #Language #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @linguistics @ai