Language Log: Replicating the snuckward trend
In yesterday's post "Deceptively valuable", I made use of counts from the Google Books ngram dataset, as seen through Mark Davies' convenient interface. That was a case where the ngram dataset's flaws...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Centrally-planned peeving
The Académie française has recently added to its website a feature Dire, Ne pas dire ("Say, Don't Say") … qui donne le sentiment de l’Académie française sur les fautes, les tics de langage et les...
View ArticleLanguage Log: What the occupiers believe in
The most recent Scenes From a Multiverse: Original mouseover title: "It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law" - Thomas Hobbes. This is from "A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of...
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