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The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. - By Kitty Burns Florey - Slate Magazine

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:24:19 +0000

"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."

Tags: #funny #grammar #language #linguistics #palin #politics #writing

hip: Summary

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:27:08 +0000

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

Tags: #cli #commandline #hip #humane #linguistics #mozilla #parsers

Linguistic humor

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:38:09 +0000

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

Tags: #decafalon #funny #language #linguistics #via:vielmetti #words

if:book: blogging restructures consciousness?

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:51:40 +0000

"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

Tags: #blogging #cogsci #linguistics #metablogging #philosophy #writing

What is conversational implicature?

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 04:04:31 +0000

"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."

Tags: #cogsci #linguistics

I am Giselle. I am a French bitch. - morning phonology rant

Tue, 03 May 2005 13:44:20 +0000

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

Tags: #funny #linguistics

The Association for Computational Linguistics

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:47:20 +0000

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

Tags: #computationallinguistics #linguistics

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names

Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:37:33 +0000

Tags: #funny #linguistics #odd

Watley Archives: Inventor Killed at Cat Show

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:10:16 +0000

"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."

Tags: #cats #funny #linguistics #pets

Half of all languages face extinction this century

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:21:17 +0000

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

Tags: #cogsci #linguistics

Language Log: The memetic phylogeny of "our new * overlords"

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 02:40:40 +0000

I, for one, welcome our new robotic linguists

Tags: #linguistics #memetics #robots

For want of a word

Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:20:53 +0000

"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."

Tags: #language #linguistics

Linguistics Meets Linux: Morphix-NLP

Mon, 05 Jan 2004 03:36:05 +0000

Tags: #linguistics #nlp

Companion website to Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:09:37 +0000

Tags: #linguistics #nlp

Most frequent words in English

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:59:27 +0000

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