#linguistics

"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 together to elicit a reaction, floating ands and prepositional phrases ("with that vote of the American people") be damned. It requires not a diagram but a selection of push buttons."

"Humane Imperative Parser (HIP), a simple testbed for playing around with linguistic command-line ideas."

"decafalon the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you"

"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

"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."

"sometimes, the more you know, the more infuriating the world around you is"

"The Association for Computational Linguistics is THE international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation."

"Caleb Grigson, a computer scientist with degrees in linguistics and animal behavior, attended the 2003 Cat Fancy show with the intent of marketing his new invention, a device that allows real-time translation both to and from cats."

"Losing this linguistic diversity will be a blow not only for cultural studies but also for cognitive science, they say."

I, for one, welcome our new robotic linguists

"Imagine how different politics would be if debates were conducted in Tariana, an Amazonian language in which it is a grammatical error to report something without saying how you found it out - as Alexandra Aikhenvald tells us its speakers tell her."