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Wonkette continues its hilarious and über-snarky Palin coverage, with a current focus on Levi Johnston posing for Playgirl magazine. (Am I the only one who thought that died in the 1970s or something?)
As discussed here long ago, Wonkette has a riff...
This release was just passed along by a contributor and ultimately comes from an esteemed colleague (so HT to AS). The basic news is about a new MIT Press book, by Shigeru Miyagawa, Why Agree? Why Move? He examines agreement and movement data from...
we mean wild.
‘Wolf or wolf hybrid’ captured near Monroe StreetMonroe Street ends by the University of Wisconsin and is an increasingly upscale business district further away.
From here.
We haven't noted the passing of Claude Lévi Strauss here yet (nor that of Dell Hymes). For a piece that talks about Lévi Strauss in connection to linguistics, check out this obituary, including these quotes:
he came into contact with structural...
I guess nobody's noticing like the folks in Alaska, but the release of Going Rogue is generating another huge wave of attention to Sarah Palin. This piece from the Fairbanks Daily News gives a good survey. And this is probably the last blast for the...
I'm all for anything with linguistic humor. Especially if there's fun being made of the Eskimo-snow-lexicon garbage. (That was an intentionally awkward use of the pleonastic pronoun, btw.)
