I thought Darby does a little more explaination of the pun than necessary, but today’s Get Fuzzy strip is amusing.
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Arabic Weblogs?
June 30, 2002 – 12:00 am
A reader asked about Arabic Weblogs. I didn’t know of any offhand, but found a listing of Arabic – language and topic- weblogs and news feeds at NewsIsFree. [ thanks Naser ] This is an example of where all that accessiblity stuff Mark’s been talking about comes into play.
Escape From the Planet of the Linguists
June 23, 2002 – 12:00 am
I neglected to link Phillip Winn’s extended comments on my response to his discussion of Chomsky, and my tirade on the response to Megnut’s article on Blog structure. He raises a question, which I’m still thinking through, about my politics.
More Like Chomsky
June 23, 2002 – 12:00 am
Prentiss Riddle comments on Phillip Winn’s and my blog conversation about Noam Chomsky: I do think there’s something to the “Manufacturing Consent” thesis, as I understand it: that our media, universities and other institutions are subject to a lot more groupthink than we tend to believe, and that our institutions are set up to foster [...]
The chicken gets it, or, the grammar of the machine affects the content.
June 17, 2002 – 12:00 am
I’m in awe of Visible Darkness, he translated Meg’s Article into crit-speak, and boom, the chicken gets it. I should be working with him and Chip Morningstar on the beta of the programmer to English major translator for Google. Update: Okay, it’s been pointed out that the above is more than a bit flippant, mean [...]
Deterring Chomsky
June 14, 2002 – 12:00 am
Phillip Winn, over at W6 Daily, responded to my comment on his and Rebecca Blood’s posts on MIT linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky. He and I will have to agree to disagree on Chomsky’s relevance on politics. I think Chomsky does have intelligent things to say, but says them in a way that infuriates [...]
You didn’t see everyone burning the Principia after Einstein published…
June 14, 2002 – 12:00 am
It’s facinating to see two blogs’ reactions to the same story. The deal: a couple of research psychologists propose that “um” and “uh” aren’t exceptions thrown by human.brain.language.getWord () as Noam Chomsky theorized, but part of communications, in fact more like the spinning beachball cursor (please wait while human.brain.language.getWord () accesses the word table). Compare [...]
Grammer iz a elitist imperializt plot [sic, sic, sick]
February 24, 2002 – 12:00 am
[ via GeneHack ] Dogma 2000 claims that grammar is for pansies and dot coms. There is no need for proofreading! It takes only time, it’s senseless. The only one who’ll profit from proofreading is the onlineindustry. The time you need for spellchecking is their cashtime. Man the barricades! Next thing you know, the WTO [...]
Slang and the Single Slayer
February 11, 2002 – 12:00 am
[ via Karsten Wade ] Some notes on the use of slang in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. I was hooked on the show by the clever dialog. Really. IANAFB.
A guide to pronunciation
December 18, 2001 – 12:00 am
I called him “The Typographic Symbol” during that period.
The BBCs Afghani Soap
October 25, 2001 – 12:00 am
[ via Lynne Ann Morse and Egon Keir ] I didn’t know the Taliban had not banned radios. Part of the reason is a BBC soap opera produced in Pakistan for Afghanis. I’ll let Lynne Ann introduce this in her words: “[I]t’s about an Afghan version (actually several, each of the main local languages, Pashto, [...]
The Art of Naming Military Operations
September 17, 2001 – 12:00 am
[ via the Muted Horn ] A 1995 article from the U. S. Army journal Parameters on the history of the art of naming military operations from WW I to the present day. For example, the name for the US Marine operation to aid victims of the 1991 typhoon which devastated Bangladesh was originally Operation [...]
Nerdistan
February 23, 2001 – 12:00 am
I heard a new word during Forum earlier this week, and submitted it to the Pseudodictionary.
Real World Linguistics
February 2, 2001 – 12:00 am
Chomsky and Pinker probably come to mind when you think of linguistics, but you should add Suzette Haden Elgin to the list. Her book, The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense, is a classic. She’s offering an online class on linguistics.
Top Word Lists of 2000
January 2, 2001 – 12:00 am
Dictionary.com published several lists covering words which came into common usage (i.e.: chad,) and bad usage: “starting from ground zero: Ground zero is the epicenter of a thermonuclear blast; most would agree that ‘square one’ is a much better place from which to start”