Jul
27
2008
“My days have been so wondrous free”
Noun choice, sex, lies, and video
Jeremy Goldkorn sent me this clever complaint about the characters from Weibo (China's imitation of Twitter) which is circulating widely [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3750">The unpredictability of Chinese character formation and pronunciation
The earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3748">Gyromodels of everything
Soundex and Metaphone
Well what's the alternative, thought I. Denouncing matter? Indifference to matter? The Gnostics used to argue over it…
Obligatory screen shot:
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And when I talk about shared responsibility, it’s because I genuinely believe that in a time when many folks are struggling, at a time when we have enormous deficits, it’s hard for me to ask seniors on a fixed income, or young people with student loans, [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3745">Mangled again
Screen shot:
[Hat tip to Eric TF Bat, Freelance Antipodean Crash Blossom Correspondent]
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Phonemic SFE disconfirmed
Bango mango
