Posts from linguistics


2025

June

Pen Glyph "To Know" in the AI Age | June 16 | Tagged: philosophy, linguistics, AI, knowledge, linguistics, neologism

2022

December

Pen Glyph Revisiting "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | December 4 | Tagged: linguistics, misogyny, critical_theory, breaking_bad, film, spielberg

2021

September

Pen Glyph On Having a Guy | September 30 | Tagged: nyc, linguistics, culture

April

Pen Glyph The Mystery of Conservative Language | April 8 | Tagged: right_wing_insanity, linguistics, trumpism

Pen Glyph Hyperreality and the War on Language | April 9 | Tagged: linguistics, hyperreality, philosophy, trumpism

2019

December

Facebook Glyph Queen Elizabeth, Latin Translator | December 1 | Tagged: latin, linguistics, history

2018

April

Facebook Glyph JavaScript and English | April 4 | Tagged: modern_times, programming, linguistics

2017

December

Facebook Glyph Oral Traditions Record Sea Rise | December 8 | Tagged: science, linguistics

May

Facebook Glyph Verbs and Nouns Sound Different | May 12 | Tagged: linguistics

March

Facebook Glyph America Needs a Second-Person Plural | March 16 | Tagged: linguistics

2016

December

Facebook Glyph Bicameralism | December 6 | Tagged: psychology, linguistics

November

Facebook Glyph Crafting the Alien Alphabet of "Arrival" | November 22 | Tagged: movies, linguistics

Facebook Glyph Arrival | November 29 | Tagged: movies, linguistics

October

Facebook Glyph Primordial Origin Stories | October 4 | Tagged: science, linguistics, history, literature

September

Facebook Glyph English Usage: Anyone Versus Everyone | September 18 | Tagged: linguistics

August

Facebook Glyph Communicating Across Uncrossable Expanses | August 30 | Tagged: modern_times, programming, scifi, linguistics

April

Facebook Glyph Constructed Languages in "Game of Thrones" | April 20 | Tagged: linguistics

February

Facebook Glyph The Curious Linguistics of Sarah Palin | February 2 | Tagged: politics, linguistics

2015

November

Facebook Glyph English is Odd | November 23 | Tagged: linguistics

May

Facebook Glyph Sentence Diagramming | May 29 | Tagged: linguistics

April

Facebook Glyph How Words are Processed in the Brain | April 27 | Tagged: linguistics

January

Facebook Glyph Swedish Communication Sans Words | January 18 | Tagged: linguistics

2014

June

Facebook Glyph Tolkein's "Beowulf" | June 1 | Tagged: books, linguistics

March

Facebook Glyph What Shakespeare Sounded Like | March 7 | Tagged: linguistics, books

2013

May

Facebook Glyph The Implicit Rules of Adjective Order Natives Understand | May 2 | Tagged: linguistics

2012

July

Pen Glyph Adding Unicode symbols at the command line in Mac OSX using iTerm2 | July 29 | Tagged: linguistics, mathematics

2011

March

Facebook Glyph Verb Vector Generator | March 30 | Tagged: linguistics, programming

2010

August

Facebook Glyph Grammar Zombies | August 28 | Tagged: linguistics

July

Pen Glyph Humorous distributive grammar structures in English | July 5 | Tagged: linguistics

June

Facebook Glyph The Adventure of English | June 15 | Tagged: linguistics, english

2009

October

Facebook Glyph Pet-talk and the Frequentative | October 22 | Tagged: science, linguistics

2008

November

Facebook Glyph Missionary Converted | November 17 | Tagged: modern_times, linguistics

2005

February

Pen Glyph A grammatical question | February 17 | Tagged: linguistics

January

Pen Glyph People of the world, speak more precisely | January 3 | Tagged: culture, linguistics, pedantry

2004

November

Pen Glyph New words in Italian | November 23 | Tagged: linguistics