Hello, linguistic community! ✨ Have you ever thought that words are living organisms 🦎 that migrate and change colour?
Applied linguistics, with the help of corpus analysis, allows us to see exactly when and how a word has changed its ‘profile’.
🎮 GAME: Guess the word by its changing meanings!
📌 Riddle #1:
❗️What we do in the pool or the sea 🏊♂️.
❗️What a neural network does with your data to become smarter 🧠.
📌 Riddle #2:
❗️A small box for storing things or a folder 📂.
❗️What we ‘clean’ when there are too many messages and cat photos in Telegram 🐱.
📌 Riddle #3:
❗️A certain set of words in a book or a human body 👤.
❗️A giant array of digital data that all translators and chatbots learn from 📊.
👇 Write your answers in the comments! Whoever solves all three ‘metamorphoses’ will receive the title of ‘Master of Semantic Shifts’! 🏆🔥
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