fakeisthenewreal + language 48
How I met my wife by Jack Winter
6 weeks ago by fakeisthenewreal
"It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate."
writing
humor
language
6 weeks ago by fakeisthenewreal
An 'Economic Burden' Google Can No Longer Bear? - James Fallows - Technology - The Atlantic
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Abuse of Google Translate is rendering it ineffective because it's relying on its own products to learn languages.
writing
language
internet
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. - - Slate Magazine
april 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
..., succussion, sudd, sudorific, suint, ...
language
list
phancy_philology
april 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Survey of American Jewish Language and Identity
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
survey of yiddish and hebrew words in american jewish and gentile speech
language
nyc
jewish
speech
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | LGA banned words - full list
march 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
great list of planning buzzwords to avoid/ban (UK version)
language
via:kio
uk
politics
planning
march 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Next Monday vs. this coming Monday
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
discussion of language for relative days. Links to contextual calendar
time
language
re:fitnr
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
londons_kerning_detail.gif (GIF Image, 1600x1100 pixels)
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Cities are language
map
london
language
awesome
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Word Detective - October 26, 2003
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"With bells on" [early 20C] 2 origin theories: ref. Court jester's cap laden w/ bells 2) ref. fancy horse's harness decorated w/ festive bells used for special occasions.
language
etymology
answers_you_didnt_ask_for
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
For Changing Queens, Lessons in Talk of the Streets - New York Times
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Learning Mandarin in Flushing.
news
queens
flushing
language
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
AIATSIS - Aboriginal Australia Map
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
'Terra Nullius' no more
australia
viamoonriver
language
map
mysterious_no_more
history->demography
genocide
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Moon type - Wikipedia
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
'Moon don't come out tonight / he's not here / to share your lovely sight / gone and left me / with a broken heart' -Patty Waters
wikipedia
typography
language
via:kio
mysterious_no_more
elegy_for_lost_libraries
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Alfred Korzybski - Wikipedia
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Rumors of his abandonment of 'to be' are greatly exaggerated. Coined 'map is not the territory.' See dog biscuit story.
poland
language
philosophy
wikipedia
person
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
A TRIBE APART: Online Only: The New Yorker
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
photos of the Pirahã (more than are in the article)
brazil
language
photography
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Wrapped in Subway Logos, Free City Condom Is a Hit - New York Times
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"'The possibilities are endless, and so are the double entendres.' said Dr. Karpati” [good news about the rubbers, but mostly the sentence is great]
news
language
health
nyc
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Speech Accent Archive
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Variously accented Englishes speaking the same text.
audio
english
language
speech
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Understanding Economic Jargon (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Substitution of religious language for 'Economese.' Useful simplification?
humor
economics
religion
language
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
RetourneAuCM1.com
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"L'idée de RetourneAuCM1.com est de collectionner les fautes d'orthographe, de grammaire, ou de sens que l'on voit au jour le jour."
french
language
blog
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Main Page - Simple English Wikipedia
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Wikipedia for ESL or students. Good idea.
language
wikipedia
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Kilgore Trout Stories from 'God Bless You Mr. Rosewater'
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"Pan-Galactic Three Day Pass" - it's about language, and exploration, and the end of it all (and only 400 words long).
language
eschatology
tk
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
IS THE NEW diagram
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Line diagram of all 'is the new' snowclones. f.i.t.n.r. makes it. [From a website that insists that it is a print mag. snooze]
viaeloiseplz
visualization
re:fitnr
language
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Pahawh Hmong alphabet
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"The Pahawh Hmong alphabet was invented in 1959 by Shong Lue Yang, an illiterate Hmong farmer living in northern Laos close to the border with Vietnam. Shong Lue Yang believed that the alphabet was revealed to him by God, a belief shared by many amon
language
asia
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Mixing (mathematics) - Wikipedia
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Topologically transitive: given f:X->X, open sets A & B in X: ∃ n so that fⁿ(A) ∩ B ≠ ∅. In other words, you're breathing Caesar's last breath, & given an arbitrary X & enough time, X is the new Y for all Y.
math
wikipedia
re:fitnr
language
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Brooklyn Papers 12/16
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
pg 13, interview w/ Ellen Freudenheim: 'Everything is the “new” everything, given enough time.' Everyone's favorite snowclone is topologically transitive!
genius_in_odd_places
brooklyn
language
re:fitnr
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
bookofjoe: Buckminster Fuller explains Einstein's theory of relativity in a telegram to Isamu Noguchi
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
wonderful telegram. Isamu & Bucky: pals. STOP Reminds a bit of Dr. Bronners STOP thx kio
science
history
language
via:kio
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry - washingtonpost.com
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
USDA to use "very low food security" in place of "hunger." Buried lede: "the [annual] report [on hunger] didn't appear in October as usual." USDA sez delay wasn't due to the midterm elections: "This is a schedule that was set several months ago."
news
usa
language
politics
orwellian
end_of_rome
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
collision detection: The mystery is solved: Neil Armstrong really did say "a"
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Good argument for the the grammatically incorrect version of 'one small step', on poetic grounds. Either way, 'one small step' has been entrenched as a cliche that will likely outlive memory of the Apollo program. (via kio)
language
moon
poetry
via:kio
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Diacritics Project @ Typo.cz
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Carons, Macrons, carets, etc: usages and styles well explained.
language
typography
design
archive
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
A caveat or warning for common cursetors,... - Google Book Search
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
book of Elizabethan criminal slang
language
english
book
google
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Work : Essays : Politics and the English Language // George Orwell // www.k-1.com/Orwell
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
"Our civilization is decadent and our language ... must inevitably share in the general collapse."
language
english
politics
writing
end_of_rome
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Who Writes? scattered speculations on scholarship in cyberspace
july 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
I just stepped out of a time machine from 1995: this hypertext thing is crazy.
time
language
writing
july 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
recordings of dialects & accents. awesome. via kottke
language
english
viakottke
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
On Bilingual Ballots (idlewords.com)
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Maciej is right on: "[G. Will's] argument boils down to two parts: first, that offering bilingual ballots somehow violates the rule of law, and second, that bilingualism attenuates American national identity."
politics
language
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
African American Vernacular English - Wikipedia
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
"AAVE is often erroneously perceived by by the [white racist establishment] as indicating low intelligence or educational attainment."
english
language
race
usa
wikipedia
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Am I Too Old To Learn a New Language? - A computer immersion program tries to teach me Danish. By Robert L. Greene
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
program teaches by associating spoken & written words with pictures. good for vocab, bad for traditional basics ('how are you?') & idiosyncracies. How do you say "your cartoons offend me" in danish?
language
education
software
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Flickr: Photos tagged with rad clusters
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
three most tagged rad things: bikes, people with sunglasses, rims.
rad
flickr
photography
the_everyday
language
folksonomy
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Dogmatika :: Review: The Dictionary of Urbanism by robert cowan
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
That the dictionary contains an entry on Drayneflete, no matter how concise, should give some indication of its scope.
urban
architecture
language
book
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Art & Language - Wikipedia
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
1986, the remnants of the group were nominated for the Turner Prize.
art
language
uk
map
wikipedia
book
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Dialect Survey Login
april 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
dialect survey that proves that people from NYC are wierd
english
language
usa
april 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
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