Language Log: Amy was found dead in his apartment
I'm spending three days in Tampa at the kick-off meeting for DARPA's new BOLT program. Today was Language Sciences Day, and among many other events, there was a "Semantics Panel", in which a half a...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Google Reader Salvage Ethnography
From Laine Gates and Dolly Hayde: One sentence from your recent post on Wernicke's aphasia (" . . . we here at Language Log are committed to taxonomies of nonsense that are as elaborate as possible")...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Referent-finding llama
Combining two things from recent postings (linguist llama and referent finding): (via Ellen Seebacher on Google+).
View ArticleLanguage Log: P S
A couple of days ago, Victor Steinbok sent to ADS-L some examples like this one, which he heard on a Canadian TV show: I had to drive him on account of he lost his license. He added a bunch of web...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Lightning strike crash blossom
Josh Fruhlinger sends along a sublime crash blossom from BBC News: "Dog helps lightning strike Redruth mayor." Requisite screenshot in case it changes: The dog in question doesn't help lightning...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "Chinglish" hits Broadway
Tonight is the opening night for a new Broadway play called "Chinglish." I first heard "Chinglish" was coming to Broadway from, appropriately enough, Victor Mair, Language Log's resident expert on the...
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