"Malinowski did not write this on his substack, in an op-ed in the New York Times, or in a preprint on arxiv." By doing primary fieldwork he "came to an informed critique of his contemporaries’ extreme reliance on strings of text."
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It's easy to forget amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, but language is not actually about strings of words,…
