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deusx : Gettin’ All Mavericky by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 13 October 2008 - "Nevertheless, Palin’s verbal hodgepodge may say nothing about her qualifications for the vice presidency. Judgment and political acumen could well rest on different mental capacities than the ability to order thoughts into smooth sentences. But th
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12 hours ago
deusx : The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. - By Kitty Burns Florey - Slate Magazine - "I had to give up. This sentence is not for diagramming lightweights. If there's anyone out there who can kick this sucker into line, I'd be delighted to hear from you. To me, it's not English—it's a collection of words strung t
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27 days ago
deusx : Phwoar, look at that fit stud muffin, says OED - Telegraph - "Now, the word "phwoar" - meaning an "expression of enthusiastic or lubricious approval" - has gained official entry to the English language, appearing in the pages of the latest Oxford English Dictionary of Modern Slang."
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nelson : Marilyn Manson in sign - ASL interpreter performs Manson song
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5 month ago
deusx : Conversation « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction - "Conversation is one of the most challenging things to code in interactive fiction, and also one of the most widely discussed."
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5 month ago
adamrg : Contrary to belief, local linguists say Northwest has distinctive dialect - Say "caught" and "cot" out loud. If you're a true Northwest speaker, the words will sound identical. Linguists call this the "low-back merger" because we've merged these two vowel sounds. On much of the East Coast, these same
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6 month ago
nelson : "ghey" - According to Urban Dictionary, intended to remove sexual orientation from the insult
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6 month ago
deusx : Jon Henley on the fate of the semicolon | World news | The Guardian - "An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon's days are numbered; worse, the growing influence of English is apparently to blame."
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gleuschk : Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone [PDF] - Baez and Stay
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wearehugh : Nelson's Weblog: culture / discombobulate - now i desperately want to know this
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nelson : Jane Fonda said "cunt" - And everyone's freaked out
deusx : Jane Fonda c-word slip shocks US | The Register - "There is no excuse for airing one of the most patently offensive words in the English language on broadcast television, especially at the breakfast hour."
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9 month ago
wearehugh : On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org - "Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."
deusx : On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org - "Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."
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9 month ago
plasticbag : The last remaining speaker of one of Alaska's native languages has died... - The most depressing thing about this story is that she has seven living children, none of whom learned how to speak it because it was considered wrong to speak anything but English.
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9 month ago
deusx : Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - ""Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs."
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9 month ago
deusx : The Second Book Of Machine Language - Appendix C - ""MLX" lets you type in long machine language (ML) listings with almost foolproof results."
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10 month ago
nelson : The snowclones database - A whole blog and list of stupid cliches
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10 month ago
wearehugh : Non-believing US voters feel demonized - no, no i'm pretty sure they don't feel "demon"ized
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10 month ago
WillPate : w00t voted 'Word of the Year' - What can I say about this?
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11 month ago
nelson : "First word is Google" - Breathtaking arrogance and fabrication from Negroponte. But that's nothing new...
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12 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : LOLCat Bible Translation Project - LOLCat Bible Translation Project: Danah is right... this shit is hilarious!
Linkorama : LOLCat Bible Translation Project - This is a new translation wiki to get the entire Bible translated into kitty pidgin (the language of lolcats). Zotnix saw a link to a picture with this done to Genesis and thought, "Why not the whole darned book?" Well, here is that effort.
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12 month ago
Linkorama : E-Mail Is Easy to Write (and to Misread) - As Professor Shirky puts it, “social software” like e-mail “is not better than face-to-face contact; it’s only better than nothing.”
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12 month ago
joshua : nice article about the use of swear words in speech
Eric Meyer : What the F***? - On the emotional, societal, and intellectual impact and role(s) of swearing. Do I even need to warn you that it contains potentially objectionable language?
adamrg : What the F***?
Rod Begbie : TNR Online | What the F***? - Fucking excellent article on swearing. "Swearing raises many other puzzles--linguistic, neurobiological, literary, political." [via] #
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13 month ago
deusx : Linguistic humor - "decafalon the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you"
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14 month ago
Linkorama : ODD Lexicon - I’m still digesting the paper, but was immediately drawn to the lexicon developed by AT&T’s Opportunity Discovery Department (ODD). It’s familiar territory to anyone that’s experienced large organizational behavior.
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