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  • Wtf (‘what the fuck’) as a pragmatic borrowing from English in Finnish and Chilean Spanish conversations on the social media platform X

  • Nicolás Rivera, Helena Nurmikari
  • Journal:
    Nordic Journal of Linguistics , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 September 2025, pp. 1-24
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  • This study compares the uses of the acronym wtf (‘what the fuck’) in digitally mediated text-based interactions in three typologically distinct languages: American English (source language), and Finnish and Chilean Spanish (recipient languages). The data consist of tweets extracted from the social media platform X. Interactional Linguistics and Digital Conversation Analysis are employed to examine the functions performed by wtf in different positions in a tweet and interaction. Instances of wtf were annotated to describe its uses in the source language and to compare them with those observed in the recipient languages. The study shows that in all three languages, wtf is used in various tweet-internal and sequential positions. These uses expressed the writer’s disbelief, astonishment, and a problem in acceptance towards prior content. The analysis concludes that the pragmatic functions of wtf in American English undergo a narrowing when it is used in Finnish and Chilean Spanish.

  • 6 - Coherence, Filtering, and Phase Gradient

  • David T. Sandwell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, Xiaohua Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, Jingyi Chen, University of Texas at Austin, Robert J. Mellors, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, Meng Wei, University of Rhode Island, Xiaopeng Tong, Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, John B. DeSanto, University of Washington, Qi Ou, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Satellite Radar Interferometry
    Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    04 September 2025, pp 73-83
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  • Summary

    Chapter 6 discusses the main methods for filtering complex interferograms, computing coherence, and computing phase gradient.

  • Content quality versus sharing practices on social media: a cross-sectional analysis of nutrition information on Twitter

  • Cassandra H Ellis, Peter Ho, J Bernadette Moore, Charlotte EL Evans
  • Journal:
    Public Health Nutrition / Volume 28 / Issue 1 / 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 April 2025, e77
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  • Objective:

    To use the validated Online Quality Assessment Tool (OQAT) to assess the quality of online nutrition information.

    Setting:

    The social networking platform was formerly known as Twitter (now X).

    Design:

    Utilising the Twitter search application programming interface (API; v1·1), all tweets that included the word ‘nutrition’, along with associated metadata, were collected on seven randomly selected days in 2021. Tweets were screened, those without a URL were removed and the remainder were grouped on retweet status. Articles (shared via URL) were assessed using the OQAT, and quality levels were assigned (low, satisfactory, high). Mean differences between retweeted and non-retweeted data were assessed by the Mann–Whitney U test. The Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel test was used to compare information quality by source.

    Results:

    In total, 10 573 URL were collected from 18 230 tweets. After screening for relevance, 1005 articles were assessed (9568 were out of scope) sourced from professional blogs (n 354), news outlets (n 213), companies (n 166), personal blogs (n 120), NGO (n 60), magazines (n 55), universities (n 19) and government (n 18). Rasch measures indicated the quality levels: 0–3·48, poor, 3·49–6·3, satisfactory and 6·4–10, high quality. Personal and company-authored blogs were more likely to rank as poor quality. There was a significant difference in the quality of retweeted (n 267, sum of rank, 461·6) and non-retweeted articles (n 738, sum of rank, 518·0), U = 87 475, P= 0·006 but no significant effect of information source on quality.

    Conclusions:

    Lower-quality nutrition articles were more likely to be retweeted. Caution is required when using or sharing articles, particularly from companies and personal blogs, which tend to be lower-quality sources of nutritional information.

  • 3 - Rejecting ‘Discretion’

  • from Part I - Tracing ‘Discretion’ Reasoning
  • Janna Wessels, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • Book:
    The Concealment Controversy
    Published online:
    19 July 2021
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    29 July 2021, pp 61-78

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 introduces the empirical Part I, which examines decision-making practice concerning sexuality-based claims in France, Germany and Spain in order to analyse the extent to which ‘discretion’ logics operate. The analysis of jurisprudence in these three countries is essentially longitudinal. It assesses jurisprudence in ‘time slices’ before and after the Europeanisation of asylum and the rejection of the ‘discretion’ requirement in three high-level judgments. Chapter 3 frames this analysis and lays out the legal and jurisprudential context with a view to ‘discretion’ reasoning. It takes a closer look at the EU Qualification Directive, as well as the UK Supreme Court’s 2010 judgment in HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon), and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) twin judgments Y and Z on religion from 2012 and X, Y and Z on sexual orientation in 2013, to explore the extent to which they reject ‘discretion’ reasoning. On this basis, and using the theoretical lens of the act/identity dichotomy, the guiding question for the subsequent three chapters is whether ‘discretion’ logics were apparent in jurisprudence prior to the Qualification Directive and the three judgments rejecting the duty to be ‘discreet’, and the ways in which they were affected by these developments.