(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs) @emacsomancer@types.pl

I do things with words. And the things that lie behind words.

For work, much of my research is on Formal #Semantics and its interfaces. Much of my research also involves Historical Linguistics to a certain extent, as well as Syntax and Morphology. My central tool for (semantic) analysis is a predicate logic-style system augmented with a typed Lambda Calculus.

I frequently research languages of South Asia (e.g. Hindi, Nepali, Sinhala, Sanskrit) & less frequently on those of the West Indies (Patois, RastaTalk & the role of African languages in the Caribbean), as well as a bit of OldEnglish (cf. https://heorot.dk ).

I have a certain wary enthusiasm about particular types of technology. #LaTeX and fine #Typography more generally. #Lisp things, including Common Lisp, and Scheme (Guile, Racket), and #Emacs, as a sort of incarnation of a minor Lisp Machine. (Software I've written mainly resides (for the moment) at: https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/ )

Within #linguistics, I work on a fairly wide range of things, from the use of delimited continuations in natural language semantics to the morphology of Rastafari language to Cyberpunk neologisms to Indo-European myth-preserving formulaic language (slaying of dragons and worms) to algorithmic detection of different focus types and constituents in unannotated plaintext. (you can see more about these things here: https://lambda-y.net )

Recently, I've been exploring the use of devices borrowed from computer science (e.g. delimited continuations, monads) for working out computational issues in natural language semantic formalism.

Interested in social equity and its intersection with my other endeavours. Strongly AntiCapitalist and AntiWhig.

Miscellany of various sorts: interests in straight razors, khukuris, fountain pens (use & restoration for these) and ink, bookbinding, and more generally 'crafting' things of various sorts (cooking, baking, brewing (including ginger beer, kefir)) and other kinds of tinkering (e.g. working on old ThinkPads).

More things to do with words, in the past year or so returning to #Poetry - with interests/influences from Old English and Middle English poetry, as well as modern poets such as Charles Reznikoff, Charles Bukowski, Allen Grossman. And from the last especially meta-poetic ponderings (poetry as "the means of last recourse", a sort of "bright logic", that is, a particular sort of knowledge of special kind of value "but only when it encounters, and forces, into visibility (puts where you can see), whatever it is that resists your will to know and to love").

And, an intersection of various interests, thinking about Forms and Meaning. And how to deal with the production and maintenance of various kinds of Valuing ("granting or withholding of existence"), including how to understand movements from finiteness (of various kinds) to ℵ₀, and further to ℵ₁.

#introductions

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new version of the ebook reader software KOReader released: KOReader "Azalea"

Alexander the Great flies to Paradise, is driven back by a seraph, but manages to steal a branch from a celestial fig tree – this is placed in Jerusalem and later, the Queen of Sheba is healed by stepping on it (Ethiopia, AD 1932) - https://twitter.com/ArtEthiopic/status/1663134733063053316