Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Language Log » Fucking shut the fuck up
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Tags: genius, languagelog, linguistics, swear
I love the Language Log. Only on the Language Log would you get a sentence like this:
[E]ver since “fuck” became a human-denoting noun (“You've killed my Burmese python, you stupid fuck!”), it has been possible for “the fuck” to occur in NP slots on a fairly broad basis. But not as a semantically inert pleonastic epithet with the affective function of conveying personal irritation.
No. Absolutely not. No fucking way.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor) | The Best Article Every day
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Tags: learn, learning, linguistics
Get structures and patterns rather than focusing on syntax and detail

Thursday, August 16, 2007

On the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and its relation to programming languages
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Tags: code, geek, programming

Friday, February 23, 2007

Language Log: Labels Are Not Definitions
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Tags: disfluency, error, grammar
The problem is, is that ...

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia
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Tags: language

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Saussure's Sign
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Tags: linguistics

Thursday, March 2, 2006

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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Tags: epistemology

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Ancient Scripts: Akkadian
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Tags: akkadian, linguistics