Carview!

CARVIEW

MOTORHOMES

Select Language

HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:35:27 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-rid: bec9e865b32cc86e8006a4cf1a7039dd x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block x-content-type-options: nosniff strict-transport-security: max-age=15552001 x-tumblr-user: lingthusiasm x-robots-tag: noindex x-tumblr-pixel-0: https://px.srvcs.tumblr.com/impixu?T=1768192527&J=eyJ0eXBlIjoidXJsIiwidXJsIjoiaHR0cDovL2xpbmd0aHVzaWFzbS5jb20vdGFnZ2VkL2NvbG91cnMiLCJyZXF0eXBlIjowLCJyb3V0ZSI6Ii90YWdnZWQvOnRhZyJ9&U=LFGHNJOPMO&K=2dae1304dc2317db2d03ef4a333e6505f2c230e75301671ee3b8e4b1860d7672--https://px.srvcs.tumblr.com/impixu?T=1768192527&J=eyJ0eXBlIjoicG9zdCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly9saW5ndGh1c2lhc20uY29tL3RhZ2dlZC9jb2xvdXJzIiwicmVxdHlwZSI6MCwicm91dGUiOiIvdGFnZ2VkLzp0YWciLCJwb3N0cyI6W3sicG9zdGlkIjoiMTkwMjk4NjU4MTUxIiwiYmxv x-tumblr-pixel-1: Z2lkIjozMDI0NTU2NjksInNvdXJjZSI6MzN9LHsicG9zdGlkIjoiMTU4MDE0MzY2MzAxIiwiYmxvZ2lkIjozMDI0NTU2NjksInNvdXJjZSI6MzN9LHsicG9zdGlkIjoiMTU0NTIwODE3NTE2IiwiYmxvZ2lkIjozMDI0NTU2NjksInNvdXJjZSI6MzN9XX0=&U=JJDIIHEBNH&K=8d26a68ab197b3233786291dcb1a0214a51e69dfac85f88162a846c5fea1e8da x-tumblr-pixel: 2 link: ; rel=icon x-ua-compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1 x-ua-device: desktop vary: X-UA-Device, Accept x-nc: MISS content-encoding: gzip Lingthusiasm

Posts tagged "colours"

Lingthusiasm Episode 40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane

If you feed a computer enough ice cream flavours or pictures annotated with whether they contain giraffes, the hope is that the computer may eventually learn how to do these things for itself: to generate new potential ice cream flavours or identify the giraffehood status of new photographs. But it’s not necessarily that easy, and the mistakes that machines make when doing relatively silly tasks like ice cream naming or giraffe identification can illuminate how artificial intelligence works when doing more serious tasks as well.

In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne interview Dr Janelle Shane, author of You Look Like A Thing And I Love You and person who makes AI do delightfully weird experiments on her blog and twitter feed. We talk about how AI “sees” language, what the process of creating AI humour is like (hint: it needs a lot of human help to curate the best examples), and ethical issues around trusting algorithms.

Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here

Announcements:

Janelle helped us turn one of the big neural nets on our own 70+ transcripts of Lingthusiasm episodes, to find out what Lingthusiasm would sound like if Lauren and Gretchen were replaced by robots! This part got so long and funny that we made it into a whole episode on its own, which is technically the February bonus episode, but we didn’t want to make you wait to hear it, so we’ve made it available right now! This bonus episode includes a more detailed walkthrough with Janelle of how she generated the Robo-Lingthusiasm transcripts, and live-action reading of some of our favourite Robo-Lauren and Robo-Gretchen moments.

Support Lingthusiasm on Patreon to gain access to the Robo-Lingthusiasm episode and 35 previous bonus episodes.

Also for our patrons, we’ve made a Lingthusiasm Discord server – a private chatroom for Lingthusiasm patrons! Chat about the latest Lingthusiasm episode, share other interesting linguistics links, and geek out with other linguistics fans. (We even made a channel where you can practice typing in the International Phonetic Alphabet, if that appeals to you!)

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

You can listen to this episode via Lingthusiasm.com, Soundcloud, RSS, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download an mp3 via the Soundcloud page for offline listening.

To receive an email whenever a new episode drops, sign up for the Lingthusiasm mailing list.

You can help keep Lingthusiasm ad-free, get access to bonus content, and more perks by supporting us on Patreon.

Lingthusiasm is on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com

Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic.

Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production manager is Liz McCullough, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.

This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

Transcript Lingthusiasm Episode 5: Colour words around the world and inside your brain

This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm Episode 5: Colour words around the world and inside your brain. It’s been lightly edited for readability. Links to studies mentioned and further reading can be found on the Episode 5 shownotes page.

[Theme music]

Lauren: Welcome to Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. I’m Lauren Gawne.

Gretchen: and I’m Gretchen McCulloch. And today we’re going to be talking about colour. But first! I want to point out that all the transcripts for previous episodes are now online so you can check those out.

Also: Lauren, what have you been up to lately?

Lauren: I have been in the world of gesture and the world of language data archiving. I’ve been at iGesto conference in Porto in Portugal, which was a delightful place for a delightful conference. And I’ve been archiving language data with a couple of projects, one of which is super exciting and I don’t want to be one of those people that holds exciting projects over people’s heads, but I’ve been doing some work with 1970s data recordings that’s pretty cool and coming along nicely. And of course getting my own data into an archive that will be accessible for other people to look at whether they’re speakers of the language or interested in the language or want to do linguistics on it. So that’s been my month, how are you?

Gretchen: I had a pretty quiet month but at the end of February I’m heading to ICLDC which is the international conference on language documentation and conservation in Hawaii.

Lauren: I’m so jealous! I say, having just come back from Porto.

Gretchen: I am really excited because I’ve been hearing about the conference for years and I have not made it yet. So this is an international conference about language revitalization and I’m going to be running some workshops on getting your language information on Wikipedia and I’m also really excited to learn more about what other people’s projects are that they’re working on.

Lauren: Awesome. I’m so excited that LingWiki, the linguistics Wikipedia editing thing is having a season in Hawaii The ICLDC conference is so great it has such a good community and I’m sure ICLDC7 will be a hashtag with lots of action on it in late January early March. [Update: the hashtag is actually ICLDC5.]

Gretchen: Yeah, so check out the hashtag, we’ll try to tweet something about that, I’m sure I’ll be tweeting from my own twitter account on that hashtag. I don’t know how much people use hashtags at gesture conferences so maybe check out Lauren’s.

Lauren: Lots.

Gretchen: Oh good! OK good, you just have to take photos of the gestures.

Lauren: Yeah, I’ll add a link in the show notes as well to the iGesto hashtags. That’s what Twitter photos are for.

Gretchen: Ahhh photos, I forgot about photos.

[Theme music]

Lauren: I am so excited that today’s topic is colour and language! You may be wondering why we would be interested in talking about colour and language at the same time and that is for a number of reasons.

If you take a cross-linguistic perspective you find that there are a variety of ways in which different languages cut up the colour space in order to talk about them, that has some really interesting implications.

Gretchen: Yeah, so I guess the simple reason is colours are things that we have words for! But not all languages have the same words for the same colours, so you have a potential visual spectrum of possible colours that exists and languages that carve up that visual spectrum in some ways that are similar in some ways that are different. Lauren, you have a story for us.

Keep reading

Lingthusiasm Episode 3: Arrival of the linguists

Linguists are very excited about the movie Arrival, because it stars a linguist saving the day by figuring out how to talk with aliens. Which, if you compare it to previous linguists in film (being obnoxious to poor flower girls, for example) is a vast improvement.

In this episode of the podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics, Gretchen and Lauren come to you having just watched Arrival, to tell you what it got right and wrong about life as a linguist, how linguists have been reacting, and the linguists who consulted on the film. We also talk about some other books and films that feature linguistics, if Arrival caught your interest.

We also discuss what we’ve been up to lately. Gretchen is busily writing the latest draft of her book about internet English, and Lauren has just published a grammar of a language spoken in Nepal.

Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here.