Jul 27 2008

Language in Other Words

Published by MissSpelling at 12:23 pm under Main Floor

  • “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:

    " href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3746">Gnostic crash blossom

  • 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]
    " href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3744">Blind council

  • Phonemic SFE disconfirmed
  • Bango mango
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