2 month 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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5 month ago
deusx : hip: Summary - "Humane Imperative Parser (HIP), a simple testbed for playing around with linguistic command-line ideas."
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7 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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8 month ago
nelson : Google language models - An example of how they use user session data to make better search results
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philgyford : Automatic writing | eG weekly | EducationGuardian.co.uk - Fascinating. Philip M Parker can generate a book automatically when someone orders it. I stumbled across one for sale on Amazon. (via Haddock)
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13 month ago
cameron : Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law - Clive Thompson puts on a Lakovian hat and fixes the debate about the law of evolution
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14 month ago
nelson : Fry's Pantographia - 1799 catalog of world's writing systems
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14 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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14 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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20 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Cats Can Has Grammar - Cats Can Has Grammar: Anil dissects this stuff like nobody else.
jimray : Cats can has grammar - Why the hell is Anil so good at explaining this stuff?
Simon Willison : Cats Can Has Grammar - Cats Can Has Grammar. Anil Dash gives lolcats the analysis they deserve.
Rod Begbie : Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar - IM IN UR BLOG EXPLANING UR DIALECTZ! Anil Dash breaks down the importance of good lolcat grammar. [via] #
nelson : lolcats - Anil's in my Internet, explaining my silly memes
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23 month ago
deusx : if:book: blogging restructures consciousness? - "These rules (and their runes) create a scaffold for the brain, which, now able to engage with complex ideas in contemplative solitude as opposed to interlocution, begins to conceive of itself as an individual entity rather than as part of a collective. L
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31 month ago
plasticbag : Plotting the regional differences in descriptions of carbonated drinks in the US - the Pop vs. Soda Page - My grandmother in Norwich always used to try and get me to stop, "drinking all that old pop". But then she also used to declare me a "sluss pot" for drinking so many liquids. No idea if that's a real expression or not...
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? - Interesting BBC article on the history of the Menzies / Mingis name and why it is pronounced the way it is. Good bit of history and linguistics stuff with a nice sideline in the impact of new technologies (ie. printing press)
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? - Round our way, you always pronounced "John Menzies" "John Mingus's". [via] #
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38 month ago
deusx : What is conversational implicature? - "Conversational implicature is a nonconventional implicature based on an addressee's assumption that the speaker is following the conversational maxims or at least the cooperative principle."
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43 month ago
cameron : 'Ginormous' Tops Non-Dictionary Word List - Yahoo! News - I use ginormous constantly.. and I thought I was alone
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44 month ago
deusx : I am Giselle. I am a French bitch. - morning phonology rant - "sometimes, the more you know, the more infuriating the world around you is"
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44 month ago
deusx : The Association for Computational Linguistics - "The Association for Computational Linguistics is THE international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation."
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48 month ago
cameron : MSNBC - Dude, you can't be serious! - "The word taps into nonconformity and a new American image of leisurely success."
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2004 - "Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer"
cameron : Merriam-Webster Online: top word searches of 2004 - blog is number one? ouch.
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49 month ago
plasticbag : The seventy most beautiful words in the English Language - Includes: smile, gorgeous, enthusiasm, banana, paradox, galaxy, kangaroo, whoops and gazebo. Weirdly does not include: badger, potato, geranium. Stupid survey.
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52 month ago
Andy Baio : Image: The Words Republican and Democratic speakers used - lovely chart design from the NYT
deusx : The Words Speakers Use - So.. Bush is about Freedom, War, and Kerry; and Kerry is about Health Care, Hope, Jobs, Strength, and War
cameron : NYTimes linguistic infographic of the DNC and RNC
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59 month ago
Andy Baio : OneLook reverse dictionary - 1980s arcade games, or #16 under geek
cameron : OneLook Reverse Dictionary
kayodeok : OneLook Reverse Dictionary - OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word
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