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Indiana Jones and Nuke the Fridge (kottke.org)
june 2008 by ulrichp
'nuke the fridge': it's cinema's version of 'jumping the shark'
humor
interesting
internet
movies
linguistics
june 2008 by ulrichp
Fun With Words: Contronyms
april 2007 by ulrichp
Words that are their own antonym.
linguistics
trivia
writing
interesting
april 2007 by ulrichp
How to Write a Spelling Corrector
april 2007 by ulrichp
...in 20 lines of Python 2.5 code, using a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories as your 'good word' corpus.
development
diy
programming
howto
interesting
linguistics
python
productivity
software
statistics
technology
april 2007 by ulrichp
luminouslogic.com » Blog Archive » Foreign Wife-isms
march 2007 by ulrichp
"I often forget she’s “not from around here” as they say. So I’m caught off guard when she uses American idioms, slang, or expressions, and gets them hilariously confused."
humor
linguistics
interesting
march 2007 by ulrichp
DadaDodo
december 2006 by ulrichp
"DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings."
art
development
writing
hacks
tools
linguistics
interesting
literature
software
december 2006 by ulrichp
JABBER: The Jabberwocky Engine, Neil Hennessy
september 2006 by ulrichp
Produces nonsense words by using real word parts and some kind of pseudo-chemical reaction. Warning: Java applet, will slow Firefox to a crawl for a few seconds while it loads.
java
linguistics
science
chemistry
interesting
september 2006 by ulrichp
Antibody - Star Wars III - The Backstroke of the West
february 2006 by ulrichp
"The captions were a hilarious surprise- a direct English translation of the Chinese interpretation of what the script was saying."
movies
humor
linguistics
wtf
february 2006 by ulrichp
Made-up words in The Simpsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
october 2005 by ulrichp
I use far, far too many of these on a daily basis. Especially 'buh.'
humor
tv
linguistics
october 2005 by ulrichp
How to Learn a Language
november 2004 by ulrichp
from kuro5hin.org ... inspires me to maybe learn Basque at last!
geekery
linguistics
useful
november 2004 by ulrichp
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