what if the english language was derived without latin roots:  "today we have a beholding of stuff and work that watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life" via someone

from worlwide tom

oversimplistically written article about the lethargic french word approval process (from alena)

always tryin "to express wishes, commands, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or statements that are contrary to fact at present"

"working out how to hide malware within English-language sentences" ... "In machine code – the raw code that microprocessor chips understand – combinations of characters not seen in plain text, such as strings of mostly capital letters, are required."

language as the first singularity, history of technology as predating human history

from sophia

Nonverbal Dictionary

via marisaolson

new yorker piece on the Piraha, a tribe who don't seem to exhibit recursion (an essential part of the minimalist program)

my favorite word