The Oxford English Dictionary Adds “Kewl” « The Quick and Dirty
october 2011 by amy
not sure how I feel about this
language
culture
october 2011 by amy
And the vowel was made flesh « Sentence first
october 2010 by amy
RT @StanCarey: And the vowel was made flesh: (new blog post about speech sounds & Neanderthals) #language
#language
language
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october 2010 by amy
When "Cool" Got Cool : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
may 2010 by amy
Now on Word Routes @VisualThesaurus: When "Cool" Got Cool.
linguistics
language
may 2010 by amy
Language Log » Mapping the Demographics of American English with Twitter
may 2010 by amy
Mapping the Demographics of American English with Twitter - this will be a very rich area for academics #twitter
twitter
linguistics
language
datamining
#twitter
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may 2010 by amy
Finance | paidContent
may 2010 by amy
AmazonCrossing—Bringing Exceptional International Books to English-Language Readers - #amazon does more publishing
amazon
books
language
from twitter_favs
may 2010 by amy
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. - - Slate Magazine
april 2010 by amy
Below you'll find the complete list of words that David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary. Many thanks to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin for providing us with the list.
dfw
language
april 2010 by amy
StupidFilter :: Main / About
november 2009 by amy
...It's time to fight back.
The solution we're creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we're collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.
internet
language
search
statistics
amusements
The solution we're creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we're collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.
november 2009 by amy
Infants Able To Identify Humans As Source Of Speech, Monkeys As Source Of Monkey Calls
october 2009 by amy
Infants Able To Identify Humans As Source Of Speech, Monkeys As Source Of Monkey Calls http://ow.ly/15WzH0
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@MedicalNews
primates
language
cognition
october 2009 by amy
Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event - Boing Boing
october 2009 by amy
Yahoo blames Act of God for hiring lap-dancers to perform at Hack Day http://tinyurl.com/ygb3ohg
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@doctorow
gender
computing
arghh
language
october 2009 by amy
TG Daily - Computers unlock 4,000 year old language
august 2009 by amy
It is possible to see the underlying grammatical structure of the Indus script even if the scientists don't know what each word means. Such a model is stage one for decipherment, because any meaning ascribed to a symbol must make sense in the context of other symbols that precede or follow it.
language
statistics
history
world
august 2009 by amy
Bonobos Rate Food on Scale From Bark to Grunt: Discovery News
may 2009 by amy
Bonobos yell out their food ratings using at least five distinct vocalizations, the study found. Since the calls are tonally similar to certain other primate sounds, such as the human exclamations "Yum!" and "Ewww," the scientists think there might be a somewhat universal primate language when it comes to food.
food
primates
language
may 2009 by amy
The B-Word? You Betcha.
november 2007 by amy
Bitch is a word we use culturally to describe any woman who is strong, angry, uncompromising and, often, uninterested in pleasing men.We use the term for a woman on the street who doesn't respond to men's catcalls or smile when they say, "Cheer up, baby..
language
culture
gender
november 2007 by amy
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What women talk about
july 2007 by amy
Forty-six words women might say, men probably wouldn't:
amusements
gender
language
july 2007 by amy
LANGUAGE: Download of the Day: ProVoc (Mac)
april 2007 by amy
Freeware application ProVoc is a vocabulary trainer designed to help you learn a new language with your Mac.
language
osx
software
april 2007 by amy
In which Pluto becomes a verb
january 2007 by amy
The American Dialect Society has voted “plutoed” the word of the year.
astronomy
amusements
language
january 2007 by amy
The New Yorker: PRINTABLES - "Here's Why"
january 2007 by amy
A sociologist offers an anatomy of explanations. -malcolm gladwell
sociology
language
january 2007 by amy
Webster's Daily
december 2006 by amy
Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster'sAmerican Dictionary of the English Language (1828).A new definition every day.
language
december 2006 by amy
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | M&S: the pedant's store
october 2006 by amy
nice to know there's an "Apostrophe Protection Society"
language
amusements
october 2006 by amy
Australian Word Map
october 2006 by amy
Word Map is mapping Australian regionalisms - words, phrases or expressions used by particular language groups.
linguistics
australia
language
october 2006 by amy
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