Language Log

Trent Reznor Prize, RNR division
Mailbag: comparative communication efficiency
Yet another "yeah no" note
Textbook ambiguities
An infuriating Cupertino
Comparing communication efficiency across languages
"Yeah no" mailbag
Saying it wrong on porpoise
Yeah no
"Ampersand asterisk star lightning bolt, you percent sign spiral thingy ministers!"
Comprehensibility and standardness
Ernie Banks gets apostrophized
Pennsylvania blather?
Important safety information
Speculative semiotics of Northern European product names
Liberman to move to BBC
Subjective tense
Ask Language Log: Comparing the vocabularies of different languages
Motivated punctuational prescriptivism
Closure
Well, maybe not the *first*, actually
Fourniret mailbag
Hoping to be haunted by legitimacy
Occupational eponymy
More WTF coordinate questions
Modesty, hod-carrying, everything but relevance
Mongers
The values of "correct grammar"
Open and closed
Bureaucrats
James Kilpatrick, linguistic socialist
Furth
Il fallut que j'accusasse: the morphology of serial murder
Using the IPA
The fractal theory of Canada
Is autism the symptom of an "extreme white brain"?
X as the Y of Z, again
The (probable) truth about Austria and Ireland
Colon rage
Why Austria is Ireland
Austria == Ireland?
Outwith
Think of the Children
A little more on obscenicons
Y is X plus something
Article-article article abstract
Made in USA == Made in Austria|France|Italy|... ?
Entering Exotic Characters
An annual appeal
Something wiki this way comes
The top and bottom of it
Reading the ampersand comics!
Wiki rage in Sussex
Spiral thingy lightning bolt!
Mailbag: non-art as Art-art, and God as singularly plural
When does stopping start?
Tackling the fleeting expletive
Don't call me doctor or I'll call the police
Taken out of context
More functional neuroanatomy of science journalism
The Lord which was and is
Cavorting and frolicking
Simpsons linguistics jokes redux redux redux
Zippy's kid lit
Rings and circles
News flash: semantics not in linguistics
The terrifying power of language
A tryst too far?
Tibetanized Roman Letters
Big news from the Arctic Circle
Doing things with conditionals
OK OK vs. really OK
Twisting in the rings
Tryst
Cognitive therapy for word rage
Zippy goes nucular
BBC reads Language Log?
Zippy snow(clone)
Synchronicity in the funny papers
The innateness hypothesis in 1000 AD
Straighter forward
Apostrophies
Hair care blasphemy and predatory text
The functional neuroanatomy of science journalism
Repenting in Public
Constituent order, interview etiquette, and being a monster
Onomatolexicography
Pyow, hack, everybody! Monkeys again
To Henry Fowler on the occasion of his 150th birthday
What's the difference?
Reading the government's mind
Double Jeopardy Has Attached
Per bus per journey
Ask Language Log: sounds and meanings
YouCool
lytdybr continued
Venti
The innateness hypothesis in the late 1700s
Ph(o)netics and ph(o)nology
Some egg preceded every chicken
A virtual feminist elbowing his way in
For National Grammar Day: Copy editors, we do not hate your guts!
Ornamental etymology
Tautology of the day
Texting shiv
Someone's word order is wrong on the internet
Lying feminist ideologues wreck English, says Yale prof
Scrupulously avoiding sigma
lytdybr
Listening to Prozac, hearing effect sizes
Students May Speak Spanish on School Bus
Doomed by poor spelling and rampant racism etc.
It's the linguists again
It was the linguists
Correcting the King?
National (omigod) Grammar Day
Poor, arid, and, in appearance, deformed
Going to grammar hell in a handcart
You say feminine, I say masculine, let's call the whole thing off
Three words to win her heart
In memoriam Gardner Lindzey
Will need never happen
The semantics of sharing and stealing
Just in case...
Happy International Mother Language Day
A grammatical Cupertino?
NYC subway semicolon and NCLB
Payackarama
Aphasia in the funny papers
What to blame it on
Shaping up the dull-witted pagans
Burgeoning and otherwise
English vowel sounds and internal dialect translation
More on Harper
More spellchecker fun
The History of English Obscured
60%, 0%, whatever
For you, broccoli rabbi, but NO BIKES
Behindology
Making due
Egg, penis, whatever
Adverbs for my love
Grace Notes from Underground
Apology in Australia
Religious Courts
February 12, 1809
The liturgy of lost causes
Searching for (un)clarity in the OED
Watch your pronouns and verbs!
Ontological Promiscuity v. Recursion
No Spanish on the School Bus
A is for Apple...
Thai Mystery Food
The archbishop, the law, and the press
She was seeing at me
Universal forgetfulness
Unicode Humor
Romney can't compete with Senator Moccasin
Lounsbury on linguistic martyrdom and the transience of slang
Headline of the year?
Genitive anxiety
Imperfect tense of the subjunctive mood
Noah Webster
Coal-fire(d)?
Obituary: Eloise Jelinek
Be easy
Pot-pourri
Incorrections in the newsroom: Cupertino and beyond
Nanoblahblah in The New Scientist
Olla Podrida
Linguification is alive and well
"It appears to be an obscenity and we will be in touch"
The world in a grain of sand
More on misplaced spellings
Shake, rattle and roll
Racial abuse not cricket (and vice versa)
"Love" as an Act of Hostility
Linguistic Incompetence at the FCC
The media gap
Political Correctness and the Use/Mention Distinction
Cupertino, Part Deux: I read it on misplace
Lower-cased initialisms
Depending on the kindness of spellcheckers
Bowlingual education, Critical Pet Studies, and human-poultry interaction
Linguification extinct?
The last blondes, or the blonde?
The Last Speaker of Eyak Has Died
Clueless credulity at the BBC: the stuff of legend
Yale sluts and Princeton philosophers
Oh, his aching skull
One-legged lesbians and police stupidity
The Linguists at Sundance
Not Prof. Milton, but Prof. Schwartzman
Dog language mailbag
More books with non-constituent titles
Non-constituent titles
A million cellphone novels
It's a dog's life -- 0.3 bits at a time
A further note on deeming
Parsing dog talk
We called each other Yo
The Name Nixzaliz
The stir-fry/BBQ index
Some linguists weigh in on D.C. v. Heller
Après Fish, le déluge?
Fighting over words
No dogs or Canadians?
OK, you wireistas, listen up
Quickly, before they're gone, or else...?
A new way of 寫ing Mandarin
The Decline of Classical Languages
A Richardson relative clause
Type and token, use and mention
Political physiology
More campaign cupertinos: Mike Hackable, John Moccasin, Rot Paul, Chris Dodo ...
Are libertarians incapable of being a racist?
1 men are interested in you!
Fighting against (fighting against) women
In the funny papers
Not deemed
Dog whistle lexicography
Who is the crazy uncle of American politics?
That would be in the modal auxiliary, Bob
Europa Polyglotta
The next president and their pronoun gender
More on spatial orientations in religion and politics
Will it be Mike Hoecake vs. Barrack Boatman in November?
Permission to reincarnate, sir?
Wow
Yo
That'll teach me ...
Politicianfreude
Rejecting innovations
Vertical
ADS Word of the Year: Subprime
Report of Malaysian Reversion to Sanity Premature
Scripts, scriptures and scribes
Papua New Guinea, the Linguistic Superpower
Moron phishing
A straw in the wind?
Why I Don't Love the International Phonetic Alphabet
Linguistic diversity: the postmodern theology
More on the theology of linguistic diversity
Secret Annual Cabal 2008
Malaysia Backs Down
Alphabetic Numerals
The miserable English alphanumeric system and its inadequacies
Happy New Year!
Absence from the Water Cooler
The Origin of Speeches: Wrathful Dispersion for real?
Another Perspective on English-Only
Camp language
Bab-El in the Book of Mormon
Proxy debates
Mailbag: the comparative theology of linguistic diversity
Blameless
What in the fudge?
The science and theology of global language change
You know
Grape genetics versus ground characteristics
More on Malaysian Censorship
English-Only Insanity on the Campaign Trail
The hectic pace of modern life
Catherine Tate to bovver America
Una victoria de mierda
Language in Pakistan
The unkindness of strangers
Blame it on Kipling
Christmas and "politically correct(ed)ness"
Be that as it may have been
One Christmas too long
Be that as it will
Another reversal
mo' juiced
More on the early days of "eggnog"
Pseudo-intellectual francophilic nonsense
Proceed with caution
Myth is truth (p < .05)
Antedated eggnog
I'll teach you to undernegate!
A New Approach to Censorship
'Tis the season
What's not the case?
It all depends on what "see" means
Couric on the primaries: too close to call, tight as a tick
Whether either
Linguists on Jeopardy
Colloquial looseness
A Linguist on Jeopardy
Binge, don't purge
The meaning mining business
The biggest typo in history
Drawl with this
Languagehat revealed!
From the Departmenths of Cupertino
It's not just to God's ear(s)
Getting to know jack
Coming to a theater near you?
The right to keep and bear adjuncts
Victims and etymology
Getting rid prepositions
What have you done with God's ear?
Dimensions, metaphors, and prepositions
In the car, on the bus
Preposition day at Language Log
At that second, on that day, in that year
Contrition, conditionally speaking
In or on? Experience the power of splash screens
Political neologisms
WOTY outside the Anglosphere?
Going with the glow
A bit more on Senator Williams
The non-existence of Kilpatrick's Rule
Leave if you like
Not taking "no" for an answer
Antarctic WTF
Happy International Human Rights Week
What a difference a /d/ makes
The secret Saussure
Best neuroquip of the year?
A gene by any other name?
Banned in Iran
Authoritarian rationalism is not conservatism
Trope-watch, Oslo edition
It's, like, war
VPE three-way
This blogging life: Not doing, failing to do, neglecting to do
Dual VPE
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
More fun with machine translation
The IronPigs mascot
Antedating hyphenation
The Etiology and Elaboration of a Flagrant Mistranslation
Due to <NounPhrase> and that <Sentence>
Journalistic exegesis
Recursive news
Speak xkcd or die
QE2
Stir-fried Wikipedia, with pimientos or salamander
They doesn't give a damn
They is looking for ...
Extramarital toes
GOP cell phones?
Language Materials Forbidden at Guantanamo Bay
I done 'em wrong
Rational inquiry: past, present and future
Forwarding Implies Endorsement?
Modal semantics in National Intelligence Estimate
Sally in Natural History
Suggestive blending with Satchel and Bucky
Death claims singular them
The effects of global warming on vocabulary
American Indian hyphens
Innovation in education
What Linguists Want for Christmas
This blogging life: The InterWeb makes people lazy and stupid
Name Crime
On explicitness and discourse markers
Talkativeness
Emergent morphology and informative tautologies
Arom on polyrhythms
Linguistic crime report: bear nomenclature flogging threat
Thanksgiving: the Greek influence
Cupertino sewage
In the wake of ThanksGIVing
Circadian
Unfolding in the passive tense
More on double modals: Problems of Adjunct Placement
More on double modals: double tense?
An experimental control
More on double modals: the Case of the Missing Infinitivals
FLoP in the funny papers
Rock syncopation: stress shifts or polyrhythms?
GOP double modal face-off!
Words of One Syllable Department
A Non-Monolingual Prime Minister
Does Cosma deserve a refund?
Be off with you!
Flacks and hacks and brainscans
Thanksgiving variation
Fellows
A Thanksgiving discussion
WOTY
What old linguists do after they retire
Positive "let alone"?
Crazy English
"My confidence damaged," Chancellor doesn't say
secondo fiddle
The locavore chronicles: the birth of a word
According to Umberto Eco
Do double modals really exist?
Might would have
Exhausted grammar
Ritardando al fine
Syncretic resonance of the day
Grunt Glossary
On the screen
Heynabonics
Definite descriptions
Design for a class unit on cross-linguistic final lengthening
Do men and women use different parts of their natural pitch ranges?
Opening Parliament and deliver a speech
Communication by omission
Think globally, protect amorphously
Drivers and kings: a model answer
Sally Thomason Apoplectic?
Apoplectic? Who, Me? Nah.
The moral of losing your pants, your suit, and your job
Fitchifying biology, memes and historical linguistics
Linguistics at Guantanamo Bay
Drivers and kings
Thoughtless contempt
Lolcavore!
How about the Germans?
The Perils of Translation
Music Review: ********
Like a ring in a bell
Locavore vs. localvore: the coiner speaks
Mailbag: F0 in Japanese vs. English
Great moments in antedating, part 2: all nine yards of goodies
Locavore or localvore?
How (not) to develop a cognitive neuroscience of politics
Nationality, gender and pitch
Lolcat, meet eggcorn
BHTs?
Ask Language Log: See spot run
Autour-du-mondegreens: bunkum unbound
No comment on this street name
Gullibility in high places
More autantonymic slogans
The Google
Ask Language Log: is "regime" a loaded word?
Homographic homophonic autantonymic chants and signs
The perils of mixing romance with language learning
Dilbert explains the maxim of manner
A poem
More risky RNR
Of mice and men and women: news from the fifth estate
Sliver me timbers!
Lexical repulsion
Solving the mysteries of the ages via semantic search
Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny
More Colbert
Homographic homophonic autantonyms
Lost in translation
An open letter
The perpendicular pronoun
The Muttonhead Quail Movement
I am neither America nor a snowclone
"You don't have to say, 'Use English!'"
False logic and linguistic blindness: you could look it up
And so can you (be)
The psychodynamics of science in the media
Linguistic change in progress
Taboo avoidance in translation: kros words
Statured pitchers, statured scientists
Incoming links
VPE in MLB
Improving moral standards
Linguistics in the funny papers
That didn't take long
Vowels on vacation
Political semiotics: new significance for old signifiers
Interpreting magical language
Snap judgments of competence and the rhetoric of statistics
Monkeys will check your grammar
Noun phrases
Cold comfort for whomever
Shoe-leather reporting and Gresham's Law of Headlines
From cringe to offense
The great Montana speech police affair
Dickens, Browning and Follett
It's a made-up word used to trick students
"Insult to reason" or "functionally striking and attractive"?
Voilà!  Ear spellings
Extended Adjectives
Slogan gap?
Ambiguous focus of the day
Adding insult to injury: the power of "a"
Commitment
We eventually wound up walking into this complete other study
The speech patterns of Dingburg
Turn-taking etiquettes
More fun with VPE
To what after shampooing?
Puzzle of the day: The constitution in B flat?
You say potato, I say bologna
Go go go!
Neanderthals may have had headline writing gene
You're not the boss of me
Phrasally grateful
Ask Language Log: Rotely
Programming Language
The tale of the tape: Those fast-talking southerners
The Islamic language family
Eggcorns on ABC News
New frontiers in WTF grammar
Ask Language Log: "Would you mind go checking on the laundry?"
Never talk metric to decent folk
Cow-towing to Celsius
On being manifestly wrong
Myanmar is Mama
Fitchifying Language Change
More gapless relatives
Fitchifying the History of Linguistics
He knows you won't call him on it
Ask Language Log: gapless relatives
Regional speech rates
Not pregnant under-age southern girl seeks lawyer with view to marriage
Manifestly as a term of art
Louisiana vowels
Flexible lawyerspeak: manifestly
The direct responsibility of me
Berzerkistani phonology
Statistics on BBC radio
Fantasies of illicit peeve-ranting behind the bikesheds
Lexical retrieval woes
Bad Darwinism
Baboons and Daubert
Verbal (ir)regularity
Sentiment classification at the Sunday Times
The power of blub
Warning labels and recalls: are we protected?
The wheel of reincarnation
Are pop gender studies from Uranus?
But shouldn't that be "weagle"?
Shooting down "amateur grammar nazis"
Bedwetting
Teh Holiez Bibul
Qat: words, things, and men
The long moist tail
The Pirahã and us
These ones (cont.)
You read it here first
The caring membrane in the brain
Just say "these"
The "gender happiness gap": statistical, practical and rhetorical significance
The finance is enclosedchief: Fire exting wisher box
Pinker's almer mater
Weather report
Losers are from Mars, winners are from Venus
When I say "you" I mean "me"
Why are economists so misleading?
The myth of Mars and Venus
Finch phrase structure?
Language Log only pretty strong
Grammarians and the road to national recovery
Weisberg wins
Couldn't be more
The Barry White effect
Cartoon quotatives
Have another think
Another thing coming
Langage SMS
Gender-role resentment and Rorschach-blot news reports
Hu's on Jeopardy
Forbidden Language and "Virtuous" (i.e., Disgusting) Conduct
Treason in Georgia?
The "happiness gap" and the rhetoric of statistics
What's so funny about endangered languages?
Hyphen migration, cartoon style
For all who lack hacking
Stealth variation
¿Que horas son, mi corazón?
Warmthiness
Hyphenation in the news
Trying to avoid the appearance of evil
"Be done" again
Turn right on Roxburgh
"I'll be done drive": ungrammatical in any dialect?
Monks and civilians
The late Richard Hogg
Mukasey weighs in on clear writing and light beer
The ends to the means
On the fringes of snowclonia
Bagatelling around
Automatic hyphenation
Vanishing hyphens
Ask Language Log: On a scale from one to snowclone
The Crockus and the Bassoon
Punctuate this
A Couple of Corrections
A child's garden of languages
Dr. Crockus in Central New Jersey
Punctuational hypercorrection
Unreal
Wherein I take the bait
The prehistory of emoticons
Yes, they're still dying
For lovers of crosswords and new words
Mistakes
Crosley Shelvador comes in from the cold
Dr. Alfred Crockus and Crosley Shelvador, M.D.
Interviewing hits prime time
Post like a pirate!
Fictional Linguists
High Crockalorum
Lowest of any of the others
Survived by his trainer
(an)arthrous abbreviations
How big is your crockus?
Snowclone collectors, call your offices
W-type pronouns, dragon heartstring and speech act theory
A new technique in language teaching
An Act of Decency in Time of War
Abject lesson
Notes from the ESL trauma unit
Language Log is strong
Weird tradename umlaut
"We all speak different and it's kind of cool"
Where do people get this stuff?
Evs
Thum
Family Values in Biology and Linguistics
Elmore's adverbs
Evil multilingualism
The Arachnid Threat
Scalar implicature in the funny papers
The laconic hero: now 54.9% talk
Fifty ways to lose your lover: Edinburgh's street names
Connard de flic
What's it all about?
So "smoke" is weather after all
Lexical choice today
Linguistic Advice in the Lavatory: Speaking Mandarin is a great convenience for everyone
This parrot is no more!
Morning mailbag
Detained, not arrested
Pavarotti and the crack to chaos
Whom was that masked man?
Language is a virus
Types of truth
White goods all over the world
More on culture as disease
Guess the meaning: a British English quiz question
Dangling Modifiers at Jeopardy
Naming Opportunities
The "fiction gap": empathy, prestige, or what?
[obscene gerund]
Tiny experiments
Parsing Miss Upton
The Real Labor Day is May Day
Viral marketing is a language from inner space
Come to think of it, "Arbor Day" doesn't make a whole lot of sense, either
GendergapGirl
My Baby Cs
Immanuel Kantzendine
Prosody and anaphora (again)
Zolf bar baad
For glue the sex rubber mat
Own, pone, poon, pun, pwone, whatever
Is Speaking Arabic Suspicious?
Polysynthet-
Memetic mutation and traumatic release
If you're a fan of cute headlines
"UAT Instructor Creates Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Translator"
Intelligence analysis: football vs. law
What she should have said
It's whom
Disarming the global road worrier
Political semantics quiz
Syntax under pressure
Reuters says guilty of elliptical headlines
Prepositional cannibalism at Google
Intimate IM
Spreading the brain-sex gospel
In awe of bologna and doritos
Another year of taboo avoidance
Prepositional anxiety and Voldemort's wand
Deep-sea diving tutor god turns cartoonist
Liquid syntax
"X and its enemies"
The allure of eggcorns
Dinner with the deep-sea divers
Giuliani's lisp?
Tutor Gods
The NYT transgresses
Syllepsis Today
Eugene Volokh re-discovers eggcorns
Philosophy of Mind Reading Group forming
Innumeracy Cannot Be Overestimated
This could explain a lot
A Little Date Puzzle
Sve je semantika
Explaining the systems slowdown
That was a stupidity, certainly
"Don't say 'tin' to Rebecca, you know how it upsets her"
Ask Language Log: The moist panties phenomenon
And why "without sauce"?
Peeveblogging marches on
I mean, you know
News flash: the biggest users of "like totally" are middle-aged men
Like totally presidential
[Sic] news from Nature
Happenstantially
The sound of surprise
When bad interaction happens to good people
Limiting diversity: One negative too far
Present tense in advice and predictions
Why Do Canadians Eat Donair?
Is the People's Democratic Socialist Islamic Arab Republic Freer than the Kingdom of Denmark?
e e cummings and his iPod: Faith vs. WF again
Standardizing non-standard language vs. careless misquotation
The Semantics of Pork
Yet another snowclone omnibus
les spams français
The bard of Springfield
Etymology as poetry
Baby videos and Google News comments
SCO Loses!!!
A bet against speech recognition
I am X, hear me Y
The Word "Islamic Terrorism"
Echoes from the dance of the elephants
It's a time sex thing, baby
Howmsoever
[ɬ] on CTV
Pails and flounders
Fog gets in your eyes
No thanks, I had a late breakfast
Hand-waving in the Washington Post
Define this, you nitwits
Taking down the hermeneutic lightning rod
Software with a liberal imagination
Flouting facts in The New Yorker
Annals of spam
The Gray Lady discovers the Search box
Wikihow on body language
Nerdcore: Runnin with my beta cuz I'm takin chances
Into Britain (and Br E)
Anita Loos is Alive and Living in Brooklyn
Blunder maven speaks
Neologopodcast
Emotional code
Um...
February 30
Results from ILO5
Getting the name right
Vocalization of /l/ in the funny papers
Wisdom vs. ignorance in networked crowds
Wikihow on lying
Wev
Culture
AWWW ...
Plus ça change
Cousin of eggcorn
How not to spot a liar
A bulletin from the Language Log Early Warning Center
well worth waiting for
At last...
Maybe not as sorry as all that
Lips that touch lambchops, shall never touch mine
Cow dialects keep on keepin on
A dipole charge embiggens the smallest D-brane
Spitzer limps through a public apology
Thou shalt not report odds ratios
Language and identity
The ambiguity of modern life
The culture of Zippy's world
if u cn rd this u cn !*@*
Illeism and its relatives
Communicating
From the headline desk at Language Log Plaza
ILO5
Exotic-Looking Typefaces
Running time backwards
Google Faculty Summit
Pseudo-Cyrillic
"Official" Hispanic Interns in Washington
Unhinged on phonics
The ecology of peevology
The new French: tortured by work?
Banning "loopholes"
I18N invective
No Singhs or Kaurs Need Apply
Speech events in a kickback case
Sí se puede
PNAS embargo policies considered annoying
Men are from ...
Just because people visit a whorehouse
And now, a compliment machine
Shack!
"Expressions of negative Clippy feelings"
Wait, wait, don't tell me
Yes, that about covers it...
One will get you four more
Two simple numbers
Everybody in Philadelphia
Breakfast as text: the theory of cerealativity
Homophonic slurs
Broad Complex-tramtrack-bric-a-brac
They just don't care
The sound of the King James Bible?
Briefly noted and quoted
A principle that no one can convince me that doesn't exist
I gay, you gay, he gays
Still in the Catbert seat?
The Grammar Vandal strikes in Boston
The prescriptivist's lament
With a free colorless green idea in every box!
Listen-a-me!
Luann doesn't read Language Log
Better than lolcats
Weird Logic and Bayesian semantics
Undernegation of the day
Negative is the new positive
Multiplex negatio ferblondiat
The spoils of linguistic piracy
Dropping the other shoe: "Republic[an]s and Democrats"
Eggcorns on OUPblog
The grass is always greener on the other side of the predicate
Keeping "wrong grammar" off the air
Autocompletion considered embarrassing
Annals of Exoticism
Brizendine turns myth slayer
People are the only agents for the job
Snowclonerei ist überall
"Nearly/almost no" vs. "not nearly/almost"
What men and women actually talk about
The Relationship Between Underwear and Literacy
Iraqi reversal
What men and women blog about
Argumentative Dogs
The Linguistic Abilities of the Presidential Candidates
Incubus
Following too close after truth
The Supreme Court Fails Semantics
Female talkativeness: "knowledge protected against induction"?
The New York Times slyly abets a lie
More on Bongs
A cat whose owners thought was lost
The first time?
Brizendine Proposes a New Stereotype!
Male and Female College Students are Equally Talkative
Font rage
Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away
Scriptwriter for the monorail
A New Theory of Language Loss
The Ease of Learning Writing Systems
Dice-K
The right to do process
The state of Natural Language Processing as Revealed by Google
Language Documentation & Conservation journal
Old Persian News
Plus Ça Râle...
Date that quote
Considered harmful
Is South America Spanish-Speaking?
Another Devanagari Rendering Problem
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Unicode
You better not call me a puppy
Convergence of initiatives
The Snowclone Database
We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves one of those gizmos
Creationist Linguistics
Colorblindness on the U.S. Supreme Court
Invisible telepathic parrots
Revealing speech
Planet Springfield
Coinitude
O Grammar, water bag noise!
Proofreading entertainment
How many ways can we say "fuck off!"?
From A to Zimmer
Reduplication reduplication
A colorless world
Reading two pages at once
Snowclone of the day
Problems with the Wikipedia Logo
The Other Meaning of Bong
What's that sound?
Totally phat
Oh, the ambiguity!
The pit of greeting card recursion
Three taboo cartoons
IQ and birth order
Judge loses pants and suit
Cheeseclones!
Can't we all just get a bong?
Let's hear it for praise
Two slow takes from the canopy
Nearly and almost
Names?
Roeper on recursion
Word counts
What we need to know about international travel
Additive denotation boogie
Arabic proficiency levels
BBC approves "shite" and "gobshite" (in moderation)
Here it is again without the nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Talking without nouns, verbs or adjectives
Language regulation in the courts
My hovercraft is full of turtlenecks
Prepositions over at Volokh
Caribbean Monetary Notation
The 100 Top Celebrities
Banning "rape" in a rape trial
More on data catalysis
Great moments in antedating
The BBC Admits an Error - Only It Isn't
Single-X education
Number Delimitation
A style book joke
Blinding us with science
Four-letter words
ISOC, ESOC
Data Catalysis
Threeers
Nearly no: a gnarly knot
Obscure words
Semantics and Pragmatics, a new LSA journal
It's interpretational
Outage this morning
Citation Plagiarism?
Now it's time to play our game
Montana's mountains and creeks in the news
Plagiarism and Copyright
Why is "nearly no" nearly not?
Miffled
Confused? Read on...
One of these things is not like the others...
If they lose your pants, sue
Calling all Chicagoland neologizers
Plagiarism and allusion
Urdu Calligraphy Not Quite So Endangered
Secret code sharing
Universal Communication
Contrastive focus reduplication in the courtroom
Teaching the judges
The enveloping Pirahã brouhaha
Contrastive focus reduplication in Zits
A Tip of the Hat to Senator McCain
Join the sect
Talking about talking
Finches again
A kinder, gentler speech error
Don't Ask, Don't Translate
Anything but pedagogic
Keine Seife; Radio
English declared "national language" (again)
Learning to think like a ...
Lolxicographers
"Republicans and Democratics": Hypercorrection or speech error?
Distracted by the brain
Calligraphy at MIT
Revelry in verbiage
ESP Across Cultures
Taking no shit from judges
Military capitalization
Squash the experts before they can multiply
Hablador de la Casa
Annals of automated avoidance
Philolsophers
Flowers of babble
Punishing speakers of Australian aboriginal languages
Omit needless needless
A potatoe moment
Dediu and Ladd again: correlations and mechanisms
Amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future
Post on MySpace and get fired!
Something is ___ in Denmark
Accelerando molto con micino
The linguist is the Sufi
Groundbreaking research with credulous primates
Audio photoshopping at NPR
Swimsuit semiotics
Block that organic metaphor!
Dediu and Ladd again
Loop until kthxbye
Omit needless
Liberty, Equality, Hypocrisy?
Genes and tones
A word for it
Unilateralism
Structural Ambiguity In the Courts
Memorial Day
Wait till next year
For syllepsologists only
New frontiers in temporal logic
In Memoriam: Karl van Duyn Teeter
Lol Vincit Omnia
Before nary an overnegation could be uttered
Kids these days
One word, one meaning
The station house writing seminar
The apotheosis of bad science at the BBC
In the weeks and months
Carl's Junior's Beef with Jack-in-the-Box
Commemorating
Tolkien on walh
The doors of infant perception
Sad news: Carlota Smith
More passive tense
Beyond dispute
Let's put it in the passive tense
Dialect variation in the terminal flourishes of Flemish chaffinches
Quite who talks likes this? Not me!
Journalists' quotations: unsafe in any mood
Punctuation, now with heightened indifference!
News from the further reaches of Ellipsilandia
Baseball conditionals
Politics and Lexical Semantics
Watch out for those Wallonian finches
The global sausage on terror
Correction was made to grammatical errors in body of notice.
U.N. declares 2008 International Year of Languages
Chickenshit
Humpty Dumpty linguistics from Robert Fisk
Hearing the sentence in your head
Dolphin dialect science?
And now dolphin dialects
Re-doubled prepositions
Accidental dropped keyboard command issuance probability
Lol-lexicography
Linguist macros?
Getting the science of communication backwards
No tough talk till you know you can win
More interesting
Oh no he didn't!
Syntactic protection against generification
The Belgian Language
At least I ran out of staples...
The Linguistics (Have Faith)
Could preposition doubling be headed our way?
Les quatre cents mots: Querla a l'envers
Chicken: the PowerPoint Presentation
The unfab four
Trilingual
A phenomenon in which I'm starting to believe in
T(w)angy eggcorns from Globe readers
Women and men again, you know?
OK, so I use trademarks as verbs at work
Zippy's suffixiness
Why backwards talk Yoda?
From anthropomorphism to zugzwang with Zippy
Calling him names
L337 Katz0rz
Let's totally afforest the bodyguard!
Interesting times
UnFroth
Family Circus Filology
Drop and give me 50 (conjugations)
Who starts these rumors?
Pullum with Drinks, 5/12/2007
Advice to the president: omit needless "in other words"
Spinning Fish: Mullahs defend Herodotus
India begins monumental language documentation project
Gresham's Law meets the Law of Group Polarization
Diaper-headed Whores; Or, How Not to Translate "Nappy-headed hos"
Memo to American linguists
Growing ice cream in the Russian winter
Annals of collocation
The Eternal General of the United States?
The future of research?
Lolbrarians
Ready to copy?
Back to the future, redundant preposition department
A note of dignity or austerity
Hostiness
Forgive me, awful poet
Ineffable apes
Northwest Journal of Linguistics
The Language Lumberjacks
Language Log 1, BBC 0
Mair on Washington Post on illiteracy in China
Evil passive voice
Context, context, context
Hot Dryden-on-Jonson action
LOL?
Narthex
Asterisking and other orthographic rituals
Arabs and camel words: go ahead, just make stuff up
Singular they on Facebook
Everybody are doing it
Garfield's interpreter
Contingency-table literacy: no biomedical researcher left behind?
The Problem With Today's Youth
The N-Word in Omaha
Virginia, who said they would come
Kitty Pidgin and asymmetrical tail-wags
They call it stormy Lundi
1595 is available, but 1975 isn't
Stupid prophylactic public statement blather
Hurting people loved here
Comments on "The Interpreter"
God's own Englishman with a tube up his nose
Stiff upper lip, everybody...
More Problems with Crosses
Cavett's comforting cavils
Vice versa and the latter
Keep the cucumbers away from the tomatoes
Automotive naming (and more)
3-D heart rendering
Next animal-fancier story: parrot nomenclature
The postmodern web
Research and empoldering
Chick talk
More figures of speech: hyperbole
Giving offense
Adjectival stereotyping
Truthiness in the funny papers
Poignant snowclone of the week
Never tell the Queen you're pleased to meet her
Political hypocoristics
Racist Park
Archaic Latin on Jeopardy
Total undernegation
What a lawyer means by "fact", "conclusion" and "opinion"
"Sorry" Spectacles
It's Sofa King uncensored!
X's X
But is it a recursive combination?
"Dr. Maxtor" and Anti-Semitism
Fear of Friday the 13th
Conclusive = good; Conclusory = bad
Gingrich as Grinch
Human and Non-Human Languages in Greater L.A.
A linguist with Erdős number 2
The Whore of Mensa
WTF small clauses
Syllepsis, aka WTF Coordination
More academic arousal
Pirahã color terms
Needed: good editor for Chinese-English dictionaries
Academic arousal
Watch out for accents
Quantifying certainty and uncertainty
Logic-puzzle guards as a philosophical resource
The Labyrinth Guards
Diagnosis: GADHD
Eggcorn news flashes
Speaking on behalf...
Suicide Clause
Ducky identity
Dan Everett and the Pirahã in the New Yorker
Wombat words for rock
Help me, I'm trapped in an Iranian news agency
Low Erdős-number linguists
What's Your Erdős Number?
My flight was delayed because of cussing?
National Academy of Sciences report on "International Education and Foreign Languages"
Hed, dek, lede, graf, tk: live with it
BCCI in the news again
Vitally worst: "Chinese" sounds like "to tear you to die"
News at 11
The battle of the artificial sweeteners
All X and no Y
The jagged, dash-strewn syntax of Robert Fisk
Stanford spell check
Syntax on the teeth and tongue
Using word counts to sex robots
The Female Brain is out in Britain
Who's your linguistics hero?
LibraryThing for linguists
Third time's a charm
One more F-word
Linguistic nationalism and the political spectrum
Gingrich's "ghetto" talk
The EU and "Islamic terrorism": other voices
De-Baath(i)fication and spendthrift
Linguistic intervention in Iran
Political Correctness, Linguistic Incorrectness
Rarely missing a chance to overanalyze
Forester hired in linguistics department
Abnormalities of brain structure and function in GADHD
The bubbled-in president
Ban the harmless gerund?
The future of the Eskimo vocabulary hoax
Liberté, égalité, néologie
More N-word meta-humor
Wilmore/Oliver Investigates: N-word!
Blagofaire
Joe, this is for you
Mea culpa
Saussure v. Oppenheimer
Playing in handkerchiefs
Reasonable doubt vs. firmly convinced
Crisis = danger + opportunity: The plot thickens
A reflexive too far
Labels for linguists
Macaronic Maraka
The International Democrat Union
Everyone are spared no mercy
Dangling in Paris
Drive the fun
Field Methods and the FBI
Dangling in court
Which witch?
Linguistically Ignorant 419 Scammers
College-age Carrier Speakers!
Stop him before he tropes again
The Burmese story
Spice Names
The Social Life of Prescriptivism
The Chinese episode
Apostrophe placement sophistication
Getting better McJobs
Another word for homophobia
Snowclones for Jesus
Z scorez
The Intensive Language Program
Conspiracy theorists blame linguists for 9/11
An epicanthic fold by any other name
It fell off the truck truck truck!
Wild slogs held in the deep
A moment that never we going to lost
St. Patrick, a linguist?
Those who cannot afford to know, and what we (don't) know about them
Calendar Conversion
More on Caesar's Last Words
Learning to Read in Dulkw'ahke
Usage gripes as display of social capital
The Ides of March
More on reading instruction
The Language of Stargate
An opportunity missed
Grice in the ladies' room
Beware of sleeping idioms
More important, think different
"What? How?" -- "Wikipedia."
Mark Seidenberg on the Reading First controversy
Ken DeRosa on the Reading First controversy
Surely not an eggcorn in The Economist!
Tape recording in the news
Not just bad linguistics, but shoddy historical genetics too?
Interlingual taboos
Linguistics in 1940
Singular friends?
Is he friends of a copy editor?
Arkansas apostrophism
The new p-word
Writers, journalists and poets are also not above board
Reading corruption?
Funny
The language of first contact
Themself
English words for snow
When and when not to lie
Journalistic dreamtime
Gendered generics
Wars of political gayness
L'amour à la Franglaise
Calling people faggot
Nutty Journalists' (and Others') Language Theories
Munroe's Law
Reasonable doubt about reasonable doubt
Automatedly
Microsoft Hacked By France?
Automated adverb hunting and why you don't need it
Adjectives banned in Baltimore
Scalar failure
Foolish hobgoblins
Liberal bias is so un-American
Self-incorrection
The history of linguistic annoyance
Why are so many linguistic corrections incorrect?
The Teaching of Reading
Spelling rage
The globalization of educational fads and fallacies
In the tradition of truthiness and faminess
Eskimo Words for Sunburn
Conservapedia
Pixelated linguistics
The WaPo opens an abusage forum
More Get Fuzzy
Get Fuzzy gets playful
A tale of two societies
"As if there could be a war on an adjective, or an adverb -- it doesn't really work"
The use of "use"
Googlelessness at the Gray Lady
Was that a Sachertortology or a Pflaumentortology?
(Y)our day will come
Give yourself an Italian name!
The Theory of Date Formats
Tell-tale date format?
The social psychology of linguistic naming and shaming
Long Waiting Lists for English Courses
Turkey Continues Suppression of Kurdish
Aramaic in the Tomb of Jesus
Another comic strip on the missing -ic
Garrison Keillor on Indecency
OK, if she starts to bend over, run...
Blame it on the word!
Script quiz
Dared questioned
The perils of comic-strip lead time
Tolerating variation, or not
"Babel" babble
Amid this vague uncertainty, who walks safe?
For first time, chimps seen making pencils
Express opinion, leave the country: it's the law
Lexical ambiguity in the funny papers
Labels Are Not Definitions
This explains a lot
Frananglais or Camfranglais?
In memoriam Robert Young
Diapers, diapers, and more diapers
Precision, poetry and paragraphs
More SemFest!
SemFest is coming!
Guess what?
The (so-called) Gulf and (so-called) friendly fire
Another view of Americans & Arabic in the Gulf
The chosen people
The effect of the internet on language and society
More political morphology: Democrats, Great British, and geese
McMissiles in Virginia
Who Cares what Iraqis Think when You're the One with the Gun?
Hatchet job on Hart?
Rankled by "ankle"
Spheniscid-American? Polar American?
Gettin' down and country
Idiotdom
Nashville's mayor standing strong
Awwa, meh, feh, heh
Where oh where is Puget Sound?
Grammatical parables at the Pentagon
Headline wrangler arrested for violating the Direct Object Restriction
In (the) future
Astronaut drives 900 miles wearing...
Is French the safest language for legal purposes?
Old habits die hard
My prescriptive valentine
"Barack" mailbag
Memory in the courtroom
Choice and meaning
No FLoP from Foggo
A zero tolerance approach to parody
NLP in search
24: Conference Submission
Whatever happened to the millionth word?
Now that really brings it home to me
The barrage against "Barack"
Estimative intelligence language?
Over 10,000,000 served
Antonio Smith, Forensic Linguist
ARE WE NOT GENITL MEN?
-ic-y matters
The perils of transcribing spoken language
New developments on the brokeback front
Why do thaw and unthaw mean the same thing?
The three words every woman wants to hear
Pretty actors
If you could possibly do without them they must be banned
Speaking good
Birth of a Sentence
The Vindolanda Tablets
"Based on"
More prosecutorial trick questions
Thursday night and Friday morning
Prescriptivism in the Trenches
Purple haze, all in my brain
Word rage -- not!
Droning on
"Smite them hip and thigh"
"If only language could be 'fixed'"
Cavett kvetches
"Is it sinking into your thick skull, you high school drop-out?"
Do you recognize this rat...
Conversion Experience
Our server
Language Anger Management
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Prisoner of geography
A Place for Prescriptivism in Linguists' Lives
Yesterday is Tomorrow
Systematic irregularization
Language cartoon of today
The theme of this year's superbowl ads
Analogies can be dangerous
I have different determiner constraints so you're awful
Parents will never be cool
Cool wit
Keep on truculent
O Canada in Cree
Truthiness About Language Skills
Truculence: lions, satyrs, bears and pundits
Charm School (and battling logicians)
Taboos of the Nation
Uncle Jesse wants YOU!
Snowclone atonement
The Computational Linguistics Olympiad
Linguist sings the blues
We accept cash
The Mooninites have landed!
Biden's comma
Molly Ivins
The Queen's English
Helium thought balloons
Visualizations at "many eyes"
Today's language knot: the stripped cleft sluice
The astrophysical lexicon and liver shrinkage
"Democrat majority": offensive but not ungrammatical
Pronouns: the early days
Support our troop
-ic
Using words you don't understand
Not objectionable
Mind your Hindi!
The sex
People in Glass Houses
Snow-word progress: glacial at best
Advances in cinematic xenolinguistics
Inferences in perjury cases
Monday morning mailbag
A lesson in the sweet science
World's longest official country name
Color names and color perception: the cartoon version
Relevance of a different kind
Prepositional cannibalism
Implicature troubles
Cerebro de El Pais
Scrambling in internet folklore
More missing prepositions?
Rice v. Mair
The tangled history of a mangled maxim
ONW and Legalese
Army scammer? Let's check the grammar
The importance of scoring
ONW
Tired food
Get your knock-out germs here
State of the Union word count tools
Ungrammatical timeless truths
All proverbs are better with lions in them
SOTA
A collaborative in 1945
Het Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal op internet
Vaux and Cooper, 2nd edition
On the offensive language beat: use vs. mention, avoidance
Too hip for the room
Whom shall I say [ ___ is calling ]?
Milton, Star Trek, and Romulean rules
Text laundering
When languages die
X ist das neue Y
Breakthrough Collaborative
Native language? Plagiarism
More on the Cartoon Beat
What's the (native) language?
Error message iced on cake
Sentence with no subject?
Doing Meta: from meta-language to meta-clippy
Lumps in the melting pot
Zippy retrospective 2
Zippy on formulaic language
The evolution of Zippytainment
And sometimes a cigar...
Sometimes a prefix is just a cigar
Celeb-u-rama
Standardizing away the world's languages
Skull and crossbones OK?
If we could just talk
Academically powerful words
Scholarship is hard, let's go drinking
Stupid wild over-the-top anti-linguist rant
A full year of The New Y
Equal Opportunity Idiocy
Words in titles redux
2500 words for cursing the weather
People of color
The future of linguistics
KishKish bangbang
Cautious reporting
Mailbag
Banning the Letter X
How to thaw a jacket
BBC's duplicity stuns Language Loggers
Downsizing Robert Fisk's bile
Let's discover F words
Martin Luther King's rhetorical phonetics
A Guardian editor's bitterest embarrassment
Fisk on downsizing
Separating fiction from real life
Bush presidency plutoed
Natural number
Wonders of scholarship
"A number of" has been getting more plural since 1800
Are we ready yet to let a historian claim that English is a Celtic language with Germanic words?
Canada is different from the US
There's a bunch of reasons -- or are there?
More alleged trouble with alleging
More on how the basil leaves
Our Polish mascot
The sad anniversary of Air Florida Flight 90
A conscious negotiation, if not indeed a virtual exchange of views
Language Log pole vaults into the future
Common Sense
Is it down cigar head can pull out necessary?
Semantic drift in the classroom
The ultimate nightmare becomes an everyday reality
Dilbert becomes a sales engineer
The syntonic phonetics of Pynchon's pitchuhv
Brand Name Homogeneity
Linguistic Incompetence in the US Government
Marxist quotation
Linguistic incompetence in Britain
Accusatory headline
AP bollixes WOTY coverage (again)
Ultimate avoidance
Comic language
Today's comics crop
The basil goes away
Benny, call home
Arcana from the cabal
Pluto got plutoed, but it still won WOTY
The specialness of English
Language Log in the funny papers
Not the WOTY
Whom?
Less than three years: a policy revision
Languages with Birthdays
The snow words myth: progress at last
Precedent for Executable Articles
Department of pots and kettles
Post number 4000
Executable articles
The envelope, please
Notes on Chinese Character Simplification
Why is Basque an Ancient Language?
Googlefreude, Googleschaden, Schadengoogle...
One last squean and knurl
Vicky Pollard's revenge
Girls, boys, and verb forms
Conventionalized oaths
Happy New Year unless you're an EU bureaucrat
Busy tongues
Cool Hwip: the culture of a cluster
Phonics
Vocabulary size and country music
The silence of the men
Two ways to look at the passive
VPE on the edge
On the trail of "the new black" (and "the navy blue")
Onomastic malice
Not-so-worrisome details
Factoids of the Year
Like, a Christmas gift card
A little more of The New Y
An apology to our readers
Surging vocabulary
Surge projection
Reader response
Chinese cultural bureaucrat: Vietnamese culture is "superficial" -- for abandoning Chinese characters
Back to Bentolila
The Verbing Man
A participle too far?
Shakespearing the reader's brain: A tragicomedy in three acts
More royal linguistic movie filth
Linguistic filth at the movies
Holiday headline contest winner
Merry... umm... Christmas, Will!
Japanese literacy: back to the future again?
ADS WOTY: Make your nominations
Panel discussion
The ghost of Christmas past, and the entropy of (C)han(n)uk(k)a(h)
Originality, expertise and seriousness in action
These troops, I tell ya
Read on, imbeciles
Foreign Service material
Zogby: Bill O'Reilly's Bitches?
Turkmenbashi is dead
Cultural specificity and universal values?
Another trip down Random Rd.
Dog whistles for linguists
17: The Princeton math connection
Bad lingo
Watch your grammar, comrade
The magic number 17
Doing what comes naturally
On all fours
Truthiness wins another one
On the track of the squean
Language as music
Chomsky and the Pope: separated at birth?
Does Glaswegian really have five different filled pauses?
"Those grammarians hate freedom"
Does Julia Gillard know subjects from objects?
Toddler eggcorning
The Portuguese pidgin that never died?
French report: It's lucky Copernicus had grammar
Freaking
Perforating database search?
Cats and dogs
The traditional Chinese name "Beautiful Atlanta"
More adolescent vocabulary
Plurals
From description of difference to discourse of deficiency
Solving the world's problems with linguistics
Flashy frequency finder
The spread of bogus numbers in the meme pool
Only 20 words for a third of what they say: a replication
Britain's scientists risk becoming hypocritical laughing-stocks, research suggests
Intonation contours and polonium poisoning
"The Way Forward": A New Platitude Swims Into Our Ken
Nugetre
More on Pinochet
Ahmet Ertegun
Eggcorn alarm from 2004
I've heard some ideas that would lead to defeat
The sad task of headline writers
Native languages of United Nations Secretaries-General
Help corrupt Iraqi police
Flacks and hacks and Hitchens
One way to get a word in the dictionary
Should the "owners" of a language be permitted to forbid its use to criticize them?
Army strong reanalyzed
Another Brizendinism
Relevance
Slogan strong
Not exactly a retraction
Who will write Billy Bymun's story?
Let's call the whole thing off
Library Thing
GNU/Linux in Kurdish
If you loved The Chomsky Reader, you'll hate The Devil Wears Prada
Coordination of unlikes
A note from Marrije Schaake
Sex differences in "communication events" per day?
Nigger, nigger, on the wall
Save that comma!
Spanish on the Senate floor: the great non-debate
From My Office Wall
William Safire wins Presidential Medal
Punctuation
Rowbottom
Linguistic Turmoil in the Northwest Territories
Linguistic cartoon update update
Linguistic cartoon update
The literary life, back then
Farewell Conrad Burns
Rinehart
Plural, mass, collective
Grave and deteriorating
Another year of truthiness
Crimson worm rhapsody
Advertisement for a roboticist
wextract
Crimson = worm?
Maybe Jacques Lecoq did it
Vocabulary size and penis length
Enough Latvian to get by?
Happy birthday, Noam
Apocalypto: Raising linguistic hackles
Most Recess Appointments are Unconstitutional
America's Least Wanted?
"Mel Martinez is Spanish for Harriet Miers"
Inherent ambiguity as an adaptive advantage
More about cussing in Quebec
News from Language Log Labs
Oh tabernacle! What the wafer!
Happy-tensing and coal in sex
Unicode 5.0 is here
Massachusetts hold 'em
art, arts, arting, arted
Fabricated but true?
Who remembers Ayds?
Does anybody have a word for this? We do now.
Every jot and tittle
You're a canned mine
E. Langdell
Singular "their": public health edition
Class consciousness
Bible Science stories
Does anybody have a word for this? Probably not.
Femail again
The name's Lastname. Firstname Lastname
Fun with co-voting percentages
Sprung from a common source
Contagious misinformation
English has no dialects????
What's "spurious" in English?
Group glee
Fear and loathing on Massachusetts Avenue
Censorship at the Daily Mail?
Yet another epicene pronoun: Hu are we kidding?
The neuroendocrinologist formerly known as Prince
Regression to the mean in British journalism
An early New Year's resolution
Word counts
Very very good pope
Slurry accent II
Map of South Asia
Greetings, comrade
Doublespeak and the War on Terror
Descriptivism in literature
Prescriptivism in literature
Cyber Monday vs. eDay
Dialect representation, resented
Morphemedar
Mapuche is ours, not yours
Language as property?
Slurry
Non-standard pronunciations ate my IQ
Tensor v. Takemoto
Nevertheless
A friend of mine's pet bear
Eye dialect
Obligatory adjectives and optional articles?
Let's meet at mine
Why Americans can't learn foreign languages
A linguist's thanksgiving
A Lawsuit over a Dictionary Entry
Final-vowel thankfulness
Bird elevated
Mixing idioms
Mehrabianian matters
Freedom for data
W and Vietnam: together again, linguistically
Snowclones in the New Scientist
Overpossessive
One of those people that care(s)
Wah piang eh! Si beh farnee!
English as a Quasi-Official Language of China
No Dragon in that Sausage?
Typographical bleeping antedated to 1591
Bitterest battles in the war on error
What, that lynching stuff?
Find that mystery mumbling phonetician
Expletive inserted
Fomite: panacea or backformation?
Statisticians and their conjunctions
Find that mystery linguist woman
Linguistics in the service of Plane English
Dueling stereotypes
Mrs. Olsen gets a D
Linguistics in the service of astrophysics
Yet Another Fieldwork Sci Fi Book
Quintuple quote embedding
I can't even spell "linguification"
"Their their," I needed to hear them say
Ear accidents
Bill Gates's new TA
When stereotypes hang out
No longer the subject of that mighty verb
If it was good enough for King Alfred the Great...
Wanna: neither slang nor language murder
When life is funnier than the funnies
Satirical cartoon uptalk is not HRT either
Plain english creeps into police radio transmissions
7 - 38 - 55!
Punctuational linguificatory hyperbolicity
prancing about with jack mcconnells pants on your head does not a news story make
Be a famous footnote
Alarming decline in literacy among publicists and journalists
Unblogged snowclones
Fully awesome!
The Historian
More Field Linguistics Books
Recursively nested quotation marks
Partial credit for "pigeon English": not new in New Zealand
Field linguists at work
The film that dare not speak its name
Ill-judged word choice lost Congress for GOP?
Two upticks in a classical allusion
Only 17 words for snow
Progress in malignancy tagging
Double disingenuousness
Try and stop me, FCC
Linguists at work
Vote for the woman whose mother uses this verb
Swear it
Giant space ants win control of Congress?
Attested subordinate rhetorical interrogatives
The Duff curriculum
Leanne Hinton Wins Lannan Award
Charles Carpenter Fries
Taboo avoidance in Dilbertland
From one non-proscriptivist to another
White Horses
Newroz Píroz be!
George Lakoff, Card-Carrying Chomskian
Clifford Geertz, 1926-2006
Aut blog aut mori
Grammar on the gay beat
Linguistics in the funny papers
Madonna in Malawi: distinguished white lady?
Elliott Bay in view! Oh! The Joy!
Plain spelling
TLSX: reverse engineering the language module
Bad Boy Science
Social science on the playground
The cabinet of Dr. Birdwhistell
Is there coded language in the House?
However,...
How to defend yourself from bad advice about writing
If they do it too much, they should be told not to do it at all
Political correctness, biology and culture
Merely great, not unconscious
The Book of Lost Books
Stupid timewasting insincere voicemail blather
Two new reviews of Brizendine
Embedded rhetorical questions
Two meta-snowclones
Finding the truth by compiling a list of falsehoods
Evil
Terrorists Target the CIIL
Envy, navy, whatever
The therapeutic power of rhyme
Margaret Atwood, alas
English in China
And next, facial poo
Verbs are what make video games work
This post fails to connect the unconnectable
Form, function and content
Bill Bright in the New York Times
The bull watch
The structure of Daylight Saving Time
Noted with interest
The seventh question
F-words
"Private prayer language"
Terrific is even creepier than uncanny
Annals of self-censorship: avoiding the F-letter
Welsh Beef
The grammar of anti-microbial peptides
Vaslav Tchitcherine, call your office
It is so neat and creepy
And after R comes S
Today's blog is brought to you by the letter R
Ask Language Log: dotless in Georgia
Language Log changes personality
The passive in law
Guys are a bit gabbier in Dutch, too
Bill Bright, 1928-2006
Dietetic phonetics, exposed!
The end of the chapter: not a linguification
His husband
More on pitch and time intervals in speech
What was the question?
Every * seconds
Arabic at the FBI
Language Log postings on taboo vocabulary
Pubic information
What the L?!
From Spam to McDonald's in the trademark wars
Yale and the persuasive words: the final nail in the coffin
"Every 52 seconds": wrong by 23,736 percent?
spam will be spam
Persuasive words: the middle years
And now a word from the Spam Analysis Division
Legal regulation of language use: a radical proposal
Two new things from Europe
Persuasive words: the early years
On to North Carolina!
Yale and the 12 magical words
Yale University Researchers Reveal 12 Powerful Words To Increase Your Profits
The final word on words that end in -gry
Messages, verbal and nonverbal
Fable 2.0
School shootings and passive constructions
Hangul Day 2006
Avoidance omnibus
Chomsky killed by interpreter?
Poem in the key of what
Virtually a prefix for the words
Fun quiz of the day
The Spanish Inquisition, that's a tilde
Unkempt secrets
Armstrong's abbreviated article: Peter Shann Ford responds
R-fulness on the march
What Neil Armstrong said
Malaysia cracks down on "salad language"
Eggcorns in the Grauniad
Microbial Grice
Parts of a fish head: let me count the ways
First Korean on the moon!
Speaking of missing words in American history
Further annals of taboo avoidance
Terroir alert
Armstrong's abbreviated article: notes from the expert
Armstrong's abbreviated article: the smoking gun?
I say potable, you say portable
One 75-millisecond step before a "man"
More wineskin history
One small step backwards
The Cupertino effect strikes again
Pullum's peregrinations
The imminent lexicographic singularity
Was Barbie Right??
How Bank Robbers Talk in South Africa
Ask Language Log
Gender myths: letting science mislead
Stop agglutinating, you devious dog!
Secrets of the BBC sexes
Teaching: cheaper than therapy
Demographic Prediction
If it's a whistle, the dogs aren't hearing it
On getting to know the secretary
Sex, status and law-office culture
I missed it
Commas biomedical, theological and poetical
The comma was really a dog whistle
The comma has legs, but the dagger is silent
Avoiding passive for dummies
Comma
Stereotypes and facts
The Path to Poincaré
Gabby guys: the effect size
Macaca-watch continues
Counting Out Al Gore
Ineffability again
Dan McGrew and topic marking
Ineffability
Linguistics Helps the Noongar Reclaim Perth
Arrrstralopithicus
"Talking" Elephants, "Signing" Robots
Powarrr law
Pirate R as in I-r-eland?
Sex, drugs and Language Log
A Journalist Wise as an Elephant
From Russia to Wales, with Llove
How safer is America today?
Apologize already
No, Really, Oldest Writing Isn't Oldest Known Language
Type Like a Pirate Day
Wut? Wen? Wich?
On Prescriptivism
The sexy British press
David Brooks, Neuroendocrinologist
Rhetorical questions: threat or menace?
Spreading the faith by the sword, and vice versa
Oldest Writing System vs. Oldest Language
"Singular they" mailbag
The latest astronomenclature: Eris and Dysnomia
All-embracing linguification
Taxonation without representation
He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn
Another Portent of the End
The tyranny of the majority, and other reasons for choosing a variant
Microsoft Redefines "Genuine"
Risky RNR
Hope for the press?
"Singular they": God said it, I believe it, that settles it
Linguists on the radio
News and entertainment
R.I.P. King Tupou IV, Tongan language reformer
The shrimp did what to the cabbage?
Second-class products
Sex & Language Stereotypes through the Ages
Open-access sex stereotypes
Unintended Implicatures
18th-Century Grammarians vs. Shakespeare et al.
Abbreviatory oddities
Girls and boys and classroom noise
Commas for kids: the critique
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
One rather late vote for truthiness
From the annals of lexical spread
Orphan initialisms
Vande Maataram and the Pledge of Allegiance
How to know who can wash your windows
Another New Source of Lexical Change
The vast arctic tundra of the male brain
Definitization: a >> the
Manchester mouse born from mountain
The the in The Ohio State University
The emerging science of gendered yelling
The surreptitious history of -licious
Till the cows come 'ome
Barbed, not bitten
Barney Miller and the linguist
-Vlicious invention
The laconic rapist in the womb
Who knew?
I hope the skirt is waterproof, too
University name bulletins
Commiseration
Bards of Speech
What's the name of your university?
Towards proto-cow
The superior cunning of women
The main job of the girl brain
Pullum, there and then
Another grammar hallucination
Arabic T-Shirt Grammar
Kahunas v. Cojones
Cucumber cows
Arabic-ophobia
Terrorism and the magical power of words
Free books
Oh sleepies!
Science is... a verb??
By any other name
Language Log type size
Suck it up, buttercup
A Geoffrey by any other name
Bogosity
Playing with your morphology
A bad week for the lord of the underworld
Generational style as "language"
Another Plutonian Casualty?
Spanish in the states
Scottish dialect genetics
Silly-season linguifying?
It's always silly season in the (BBC) science section
Make Very Excellent Mnemonics: Just Start Using Noggin!
Dwarf planets and California lilacs
New planetary definition a "linguistic catastrophe"!
Who done it?
The mathematical Itô and the phonological Itô
Where's the beef?
Obscenicons in the workplace
Mutating netlore, from "fuck" to "snakes on a plane"
God dead; "fuck" now the most important word in the language
ATM languages
The communicative power of silence
Pluto is a dwarf planet, but not a planet
Where are moo from?
Oh, the moos you can moo
Iceballs, revisability, language, and intelligent life in the universe
Good-bye plutons, hello Plutonian objects
Excessive activity leads to loss of intelligence
Bringin ablative from Latin
More on rats and men and women
Leonard Sax on hearing
No plural shifting term
Is "singular they" verbally and plenarily inspired of God?
Term for shifting plural s to the end of initialisms and acronyms?
Translating leadership, creating verbiage
Earnest snowclone of the month
Piling on "pluton"
New planet mnemonic: Language Log is there for you
Crocodiles are fish in Australia
Translingual ironic snowclone of the day
Bad headline pun of the week
Quantifier domain restriction and gel-filled bras
The Planet Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Another step towards gender equality
Of rats and (wo)men
"Minority are" in the wild
More on Macaca-gate
Just in case
How to baffle Welsh cyclists
Denial of service attack
A short judicial shift
Gay marriage and counting the planets
To prudently recreate
Hungarians wanted
Those fast-talking Hungarians Marketing Researchers
Majority/minority complex
Omit needless commas
Hungarian speech rate and the tribunal of revolutionary empirical justice
Eskimo ballplayers have 108 words for slump
Makaku, macaco, macaque, macaca...
Commas for kids
Here we go again
Liberate the BBC
Don't accept nothing less, y'all
Yet another sex-n-wordcount sighting
Ask Language Log: confessions of an interpolated sub-head
More on "Israelis Killed, Lebanese Die"
Billions for X-ray machines and we're not any safer
John Wells' phonetic blog
Sharps, sharks and gentlemen
Mission Postposition
Israelis killed, Lebanese die
Truth in captions?
Neocon "Islamic fascist" designation spreads to government
Majorities and minorities
Language without meaning at the airport
Do magpies understand structural ambiguities?
Language Log outage
Moral panic in asterisking
The dying adjective laureate
Overnegation as obfuscation
A Medical Eggcorn
Dong!
A jewel of an eggcorn
E*****h, German, and a little bit of F****h
On beyond eggcorns
They called Hillary a whaaa?
Out-X-ing X
The emerging science of snowclones
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
C*m sancto spiritu
Dan Brown news update
Boston's irreconcilable council(l)ors
Lawyers in need of linguistic training
Sex and speaking rate
Eggcorns going mainstream?
MS Demo Backwash
Sex-linked lexical budgets
Neuroscience in the service of sexual stereotypes
Free verbs
The direct and vigorous hyptic voice
Who died and made you the king of snowclones?
Great news from Google research
When men were men, and verbs were passive
Been anything so long it looks like not to me
Each had his own strange tale to tell
How language sausages are made
Did Winston Churchill Use Singular "They"?
Effing or fucking?
The very cypher of an excuse
Speech tech up and down
Between good and evil
Loan words as "evasive language"
It's hard not to read this and not do a double-take
Automatic asterisking
Virtues, pleasures and myths
On the taboo watch: The rock report
US Continues to Fire Gay Language Specialists
Summer homes and strawberry rhubarb pie
Roses of Mohammad for breakfast, elastic loaves for lunch...
They sure is
F A N B O Y S ?
James J. Kilpatrick, grammarian
X as the Y of Z
Stupid self-defeating warning label nonsense
Unlike no other
The Perils of Transliteration
The moan of the dunes
English under siege in Pennsylvania
PowerGenitalia and PenisLand
Two languages short of bilingual
Mensaje de los alcaldes [sic]
Another Jackass of the Week
Iced coffee ad for Hispanics outrage
Will Shortz sets impossible puzzle on NPR
The ancient roots of passive avoidance
Safire's batting average against left-handed grammar questions
How long have we been avoiding the passive, and why?
War is profane
Blogging from the seat of power
Rice to Middle on Sunday, U2 to Far in December?
No Oil for a Chicken in Every Pot!
Sad knights who say nü
The book for your linguist lover
We feel sad because we say ü
Getting on the map
Compound Interest
Cracking down on the Hezbollians
Words of curse
Taking shit from the President
Passive aggression
Another Sign of the Apocalypse?
Phony Oriental wisdom in the 12th century
Phony Orientalism in the 20th Century
Drawing the line
Pixie dust for digital divination: an open letter to Gary Flake
Presidential expletive watch
Clunky or subtle?
Not a Slip of the Tongue
Is "language modeling" linguistics?
Trunca in Monta Sa
Complex Rendering in Linux
Compounding the insults
Linguist thought able to read isn't
Kudos to Microsoft
More "self" talk, from country crooners to city slickers
I was (probably) wrong
"Mind like parachute - only function when open!"
Ceiling tiles dropped, also morpheme
Life would be more livable if there were any chains left to bust
Proverb Attribution
Fake proverbs at the Aspen Institute?
Born on the 11th of July
The inscrutable Chinese language
Throughout the ranks of left-wing bloggers
Don't dare return in under an hour
Dialog Box Button Labels
Underlying claim false, linguified claim true
If you can answer this, you are not paying attention
Morphology in action
Snowclones of linguification
Plagiarism Watch: Ann Coulter
Voluble apes? I don't think so
Wisdom of blogs : Italy to win, Language Log to place?
The dictionary of fools
What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us?
A linguification from an unusual source
So ignorant, as that they know not the name of a rope
A new type of dong
The bunkum of "The Bunkum of Bunkum"?
Classical linguifying
Four more examples of linguifying
Whistling in the Saddle
Unconstitutional bad punning
George M. Cohan, call your office
Air quotes and non-apologies
Avoiding the other F-word
Strunk and White vs. the Declaration of Independence
More animals and listening
On Cultures "Without a Language"
When you freelance, nobody knows you're a dog
More on the "one-time rings"
Cherokees Without a Language?
Linguifying
Listening to the animals
We are the Inge Borg. You will be Inge borrowing.
Operation Enduring Freelance: the CIA gets it right
NABI OK?
Why the Attention to Bush's Language?
Romani stereotypes
Productivity at the Bushism mine
PrairieDogSpeak
The DeLorean saga
Another bite at "eats like a meal"
The Pellicano file
Diagnosing soup label syntax
There's no battle, Morgan!
A hospital discovers conversation
Blinded by neuroscience
Matrimonial cryptography
Chinese takeout and Watergate: Discuss
Been catachresis so long it looks like an idiom to me
Jeopardy Report
Language documentation
The Language Log book, now at a discount of -319%
It's not hyperbole, but what is it?
Honor be to Mudjekeewis!
Too good to be true
Dzongkha Linux
More rhetorical abuse of the Eskimo lexicon
Obscenity as commodity
Are men emotional children?
Linguistics in General Science Journals
Everybody's going meta
More @!%!**#~@#!! Wisdom from Beetle Bailey
Maurice Saatchi, cognitive neuroscientist
Ahem
Beetle Bailey goes positively meta
An editorial conflict of interest at Slate?
Now you hear it...
Extraterrestrial Soccer Report
Time after time after time...
Vincius vincit
Da Bomb
A stricter prescriptivism
Speak we proper English?
In China It's ******* vs. Netizens
The gray lady goes up against fark.com
For the millionth time, it's not hyperbole
The four meanings of an Arabic word
My pop adjective
A life without "outwith"
Feeling hitterish with Diz and the Babe
The confession of Adam Gray
Words fathers forget how to pronounce
A man and a statue and a codex and a cadaver
My adjective
Fun: you've seen the adjective, now read the adverb!
A defense of Aymara uniqueness
Language Log apology book tour kicks off in Cambridge
The earliest typographically-bleeped F-word?
How to get money from Geoff Pullum
"Still un-X-ed" is not yet unspreading
Back to the... but you guessed it
Danglers: discourtesy, not ambiguity
For semanticists only
Linguist jokes (4)
David Brooks, cognitive neuroscientist
HBES 2006
The history of typographical bleeping
Reversed née
Extorting Barry
Vocabulary Building at the Seven Lazy P
Go and synergize no more
Zero for three on grammar, minus three, makes -3
Meh-ness to society
One of those who
Mock modesty at the NYT
Goram motherfrakker!
"Redux" in flux
Mung gets munged
Podfisking
Wh�tever
A sudden loss of innocence
Springtime for snowclones
Words that can't be printed in the NYT
Not doubting that the door could not be opened wider
The Old Navy style sheet
Psychology ≅ 10-100 x Linguistics?
Thou shalt not miss Jan Freeman
Googling without spelling
ASCII, Mac OS X, and the 128 names of DormAid
ASCII the diacritic assassin
French in Maine: Louis XIV lives?
Vocalize, don't vocalize, whatever
Further thoughts on the riddle of GAN
Naming That Tune: "We keep it incessantly in pleated skirts and scowls"
Coordination gone awry
Reflexive alert
How do you spell "xenophobia"?
Northeastern's school song: Get me rewrite!
Name that Tune ('s language)
"Big" in Japan (and Bali)
Tutoyer, koine, tmesis, Ursprache
"What up, Nick--?"
Grunt and Grumble: sociolinguistic speculation at Slate
Congratulations to Joseph Aoun
GAN: Whodunnit, and how, and why?
Supreme Freedom of Speech
So the search engine can understand
A Less Grand Chinglish
Rhythms of the blogosphere
Tolstoy enlisted to sell Viagra
Selling ignorance
Confusing web language with the web world
Tensions between a singular and plural nouns
Menu conventions vs. syntax
And the plural of MacBook Pro is ...
From the deepest void of neverness
Da Vinci Q & A
Monkey words
Behind the Da Vinci curve
Linguistics goes out to dinner
Retirement or Phase II
"Not good enough for us, too good for you"
Not old enough for sex, by half
I have stress! You have stress! Not resolved!
Public competence, linguistic and otherwise
On Learning Mandarin in America
Broader common-sense discussions, not narrower "licensed" commentary
Report from the language log security department
Thriving on confusion in the Guardian
Never mind the prose, plot and gnosticism...
The most powerful person no one has never heard of
A new rhetorical technique
Dan Brown, evangelist?
Euphony and usefulness
Pirahã channels
The dawn of a new era
We proudly announce our new telephone system
The Arabs own him
Attorney General caught in linguistic snare!
Better late
1421 Update
Anti-Elmorese
Hutchisonian science
Homo journalisticus
What does "official" mean?
English: official, national, common, unifying, or other?
Senate votes for official English
Parataxis in Pirahã
Request for action from the AAA
And people say we monkey around
Regale in basilica
Inconceivable!
Big much squib
Starlings, darlings
A tale of two copiers
Recycling grammatical terminology
Ambiguously numbered pronoun
Locative Epithets as Names
Cutting in line: what would Of Nazareth do?
Strange ifs of the third kind
Linguistics fails again
A grander Chinglish
Is Mark Steyn guilty of plagiarism?
Pulling (to) within: the paper trail
Some striking similarities
Think this
Sighted in the wild
Mitsuwhatzit
The geopolitical significance of sentence-final prepositions
Water may or may not run through it
What a difference a comma makes
Asking Dr. Language Log
Mock Spanish or Mock Mock Spanish?
Good story, bad headline
The hispanicization of American baseball, the status of Puerto Rico, and the achievements of Roberto Clemente
No concept of the future, no yuccas either
Pulling within
Colossus
Depreciate and deprecate: stay out of it
Mock Spanish in the cellular age
A racy WTF coordination
A cautionary tale
Dolphin naming?
Says Who?
Pirahã links
Why I Will Never Be a Wine Connoisseur
Deep in the Hookergate weeds
The alcoholic orientalist thief vs. the tenth-rate syntactical train wreck
¿Es el español un idioma extranjero?
No Word for Thank You
Yet another plagiarism case
Cartoon roundup, "Nuestro Himno" edition
Francesco spells trouble
Mitsubushi?
The Virtues of Spam
Whorf in a bottle
Sentences found abandoned after joyride
And Putin makes three
They looked on one-another & became what they beheld
Unwritten rules and uncreated consciences
On the Internet Nobody Knows You are a Space Alien Lizard
No Room For Polyglots
Corporate Plagiarism
Sprinkled under the radar
Busting he(a)ds at the Express-News
Bush saved by his own bi-ignorance?
Viswanathan v. Swanson
Imaginary debates and stereotypical roles
New and old stuff on animal grammar
Hopeless black holes at the New York Times
At least I hope he's not acting alone
Oxford English Corpus: infested with eggcorns!
The bitchiness of lexicographers and NYRB reviewers
Walking sticks and the polygraph
This time, he should have blinked twice
See here
Literary shoplifting
Out-of-time, out-of-body seeing and hearing
Punctuation tip's
Courtleye makere saith copyinge was withovten entente
Kaavyagate Update
Arabic machine translation from Google Labs
Negation day in the news
Can you speak in rhinoceros?
Wild? I was livid!
Ma Ferguson, the apocryphal know-nothing
More water cooler chat from Language Log Plaza
The multilingual anthem
Bird (syntax) flu
Nationalism in all its star-spangled glory
Separating species with bullets
Starlings linguists language loggers readers follow commented on the work of studied are damn smart!
Starlings
Around the water cooler at Language Log Plaza
The race to the bottom in science reporting
A million words here, a billion words there...
Beats Workin'
Accidental spelling at Google; Mary Matalin speaks unfortuitously
Who is the decider?
Arizona knows
In defense of Kaavya Viswanathan
Lament for Port and Starboard
Probability theory and Viswanathan's plagiarism
Full tilde
Apocalypse not now
The latest in anti-social media
Straw creatures great and small
Battling blang
Yet Another Sign of the Apocalypse
Hollywood glamour, activist passion, false rhetoric
Scrapie in ancient China?
An overature to the nucular family and the doctorial committee
Myopia in applied linguistics
New ideas and new words
Prior artwork
When is a phrase not a phrase?
Loose sallies of the mind
An Eats, Shoots & Leaves moment
Adventures in celebrity onomastics
The Provenzano Code
Is a cow a negotiable instrument? Can a woman be a "reasonable man"?
Ali G in the land of colorless green ideas
Croatian an endangered language?
Are we an it or a they?
"That stuff" and "the genre of 'blog'"
Heated words about "sauna"
Four subjects of a book review
McClellan's mangled sentences: where are they?
L-erba' temi tal-poeżija
MLA Language Map enters new territory
Grand theft bovine; or, when is an antelope not a document?
All that and talk about Fight Club
The Emperor's Clothes
Harry Potter and the Madding Gerund: Secrets of the Language Log Code
Doctors return to their senses
Patriots Day, Patriot's Day, and Patriots' Day
How much do those red and blue jellybeans predict about linguistic ability?
Russian loony to sue Da Vinci Code author
Is a cow a motor vehicle?
Jury instructions up close
fibs and cats
Hungry for constraint
The four subjects of whatever
Freedom of Speech?
What "Multicultural London English" sounds like
Congratulations to Dan Brown
My name is Hare and I know nothing
Double cousins?
A brief history of "spaz"
And one more...
Police: Dead rapper fired first shot
Where are Native Languages Official
Pronominal perplexity at the AP
Say Anything
Jafaican
Hackery, Quackery, Schlock
The shape of a spoken phrase
Videotaping Interrogations
Reliable Sources on Classification
Unfolding Infogami
X is a Y best served Z
A fishapod called Tiktaalik
The Four Subjects of Linguistic Analysis
The meaning (or not) of links
The four subjects of poetry
Quasi-modal be in Family Circus
"Conditional tense" at the NYT
WTF coordination in the bullpen
The discreet charm of French orthography
Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article
Linguists 'have different brains'
Worm grunting
Adam Kendon on the 'chin flick'
So in style at the NYT
Meth Stings
Onghornlay rofessionalpay
Sister-girl diva-dom
Much ado about a lot
How innovative is that!
Everything is too appropriate these days
Cupcakin' it
Invasion of the philosophical jocks
It's all grammar, one more time
O to be a particle, now that spring is here
Thanking
Professor Pullman, in the library, with the candlestick
O grammar books, O now your virtues show
One more brokeback report
"Thinking specifically about the F-word..."
The LMU: A New Formula for Measuring Effective Writing
Does it matter what linguists think?
The straw dog of amnesty
An ambiguity of editing
What part of speech is "the"?
Twonk!
Delete expletives
Why comics avoid the name "Clint"
The ludic impulses of science writers
The adjective "the"
Carrier Scrabble
Uptalk is not HRT
Dangerously incompetence
Dakota Scrabble, anyone?
Of silos and stovepipes
Lexical drift (2)
Lexical drift (1)
The Origin of Redskin
Big hair in the blogosphere
Don't look back: the old geezers may be gaining on you
Op-Ed arithmetic at the NYT
Another solution to the person/people problem
Simpsonological linguistics
The aperiodic song of the communications engineer
I found my snowclone in Palo Alto
What's the problem?
Today's Linguistics 101 essay assignment
Vanishing slurs
Further thoughts on "The Affect"
The Affect: Sociolinguistic speculation at the NYO
It's X's world, we just live in it
How's this for ambiguity?
Not nearly hard enough
It's hard
Ayn Rand psychologizes a trope
Breaking the law
Open source translation
Heralds of Resource Sharing
The Perils of Fieldwork
Linguist jokes (3)
Labov on the Northern Cities Shift
It's not hard out here for a cliche
Spreading like wildlife
The N-Word in the News Again
Instilling linguistic anxiety in Raachester
"My parents, Ayn Rand and God"
printing a list of all english words
Brokeback generalization in context
Ayn Rand, linguist?
The Recency Principle Lives
The perils of semiotic speculation
Voice confused with tense at the Economist
Love, adverbially
Snowclone Mountain?
Interpretation, Translation and the Mess in Our Courts
X-back mountain
What is the negative voice of authority?
Pretty girl visiting your town
A pirated Barbie-ism
51,807
Civics lesson
Engrish explained
Best. Snowclone. EVAR.
More brokeback generalizations
The December 1 DWIM effect
The Cupertino effect
Respect
Not me
No Axe Attack
A Hearty Second for Richard Grant White
Another Trent Reznor Award nominee
Collocation provocation
Brokeback generalizations
The agenbite of Onion wit
Mel's Mayan mischief
Tough language, woman
Hatching out a question of usage
Stumbling across the linguistic divide
Noclone
Pioneers of word rage
... and the value of nothing
The entire United States wept
Freedom of speech: more famous than Bart Simpson
Playing for the Dominican, skiing in Czech, working in Saudi
Tracking snowclones is hard. Let's go shopping!
On not emerging unscathed
Counting freedoms, Simpsons and percentages
Crazy talk
The revolving door has my head spinning
"Zwicky" on the Slut-o-Meter
Cinderella's slippers: glass or squirrel fur?
Far from Slutty
Pornometry and the Slut-o-meter
Multiple choice
Language Log has the story
It's all grammar, redux
en language log splitter
New evidence for animal language...
Learnable and unlearnable patterns -- of what?
No snowclone left behind
The House of Fame
A phonographic phony
W's Conundrum
Trent Reznor Prize nomination
Ride and smile
Not your usual modifier attachment problem
Richard Grant White
Linguistic enforcement, Canadian style
Omit offensive reading
Hey buddy, can you spare an adjective?
Reclassifying Linguistic History
The Antiquity Illusion
Into the future at McFriendly's
Pinging people
Ping ding
Washing the Unwashed
Collateral damage
Not your mother's snowclone
Genericide unsweated at Google?
Popular lexicography on the internet: when neologisms aren't new
German and Italian and Ladin and...English?!...in Bolzano
Why it's usually the first that lasts
Currents in the sea of speech
AAAS
The infrequency illusion: a linguist's prayer
Sketchballs
Best first lines -- and last?
This week's baffling grammatical advice
Roses of Muhammad, bread of Vienna
Annals of prescriptivism: a Roman instructs the Germans in their own language
I didn't write shit today
The nesting of clauses that lay in the sentence that Cheney said
Not my kind of Spanish
Tannen in the New York Times
Odium against "podium"
Peter Ladefoged and Big Fierce Animals
Jane Austen and the Super Bowl
Doomed to mediocrity by accent?
A quantifier for every season
"Torino" rolls along
The fujigmotic chigger of scholarship
The allusive butterfly of love
Feeling all Olympic-y
Presenting linguistic evidence in court
Do you have a language barrier?
Hanging up a participle without getting a subject
Trent Reznor Prize to Bernard-Henri Levy
Vaporizing:Dean::?:Cheney
Top Arafat climate scientists
Whatever is not prohibited is permitted -- not!
Angry rises
Rhyme schemes, texture discrimination and monkey syntax
Multilingualism isn't dead yet
Bella Coola Censored
Arabic in Kurdistan
Hellaciously fellatious
Looking for lies in all the wrong places
How to countr orthographic offendrs
Toadying 3: More of the fellat- family
A sculpture that "bears no resemblance" to its subject
What they talk about when they talk about the things that most people never talk about
Toadying 2: Derived nominalization
Speaking the language of the Indians' enemies
Who needs grammar?
986,120 words for snow job
Big Ben continues to hit that iceberg
112 words for misunderstanding meaning?
The proper treatment of snowclones in ordinary English
Commercial hybridity, Super Bowl edition
Standing up to linguistic terrorism
Who wants to die, asks Baby David
Annals of animalistic analogies
Tong-maker the Kong-maker, and other translational follies
Invention of the supine round bracket
The vocabulary of toadying
All your emoticons are belong to Cingular?
Jeopardy! strikes the wrong tone
Dubious quotation marks
Language Log final exam
The cran-morphing of -dango
Rare in the same sentence
The dissing of hiphop linguistics
The parts of speech
Peter Ladefoged
The late Peter Ladefoged
Bring the bling
Surprising crocodile kin
Chinian, not Chinese?
Podzinger rejects Jesus
Further evidence of declining university standards?
A four-letter word beginning with F...
A four-letter word beginning with P...
Blawgs, phonolawgically speaking
Unlike dangling
Wordplay's big splash at Sundance
A rejoinder from our president
Unheimisch op straat
Truthiness in journalism
Who let the 'n' in?
Guest post: Getting ourselves in trouble
Mr. Understanding-the-key-point Chen
Who let the blawgs out?
A guest rant: "All we want are the facts"
Truthiness: a flash in the pan?
Technology review: giving new media a bad name?
A prescriptivist rant? Get a clue
And still they come
Nabspam is kinda nice
We, We, Madame
The birth of truthiness?
What Whorf would have said
Forensic linguistics, the Unabomber, and the etymological fallacy
More freedom but not more right or more rule
No tattooed acronym
People that would do ourselves harm
Colbert immortalized again
The truthiness wars rage on
The evolution of "birdflu"
The [sic]ing of the President
Trying to talk alike and not succeeding
Stupid machine-generated spiritual blather
Colbert fights for truthiness
Nias, Komodo, and "Kong"
New swords for old
The wordanistas have spoken
Shakespeare used they with singular antecedents so there
Maybe Globalization Isn't As Advanced as We Think
Happy Abramoffukkah!
No problem
The Chemical Composition of Words
What would Whorf say?
Singular they with known sex
WMF vulnerability
Everyone at The Times agrees... No they don't
Dinner at the L.S. Cabal: the sequel
Pointers, References, and the Rectification of Names
Opa!
Old school
How often does your mother say "butt"?
From Nabisco to NaNoWriMo
Asbestos she can
Does sisomo have sisomomentum?
The brave new world of computational neurolinguistics
Kenzi, Camerair, and other hybrid beasts
The Udmurtian code: saving Finno-Ugric in Russia
The Agatha Christie Code: Stylometry, serotonin and the oscillation overthruster
Not a brilliantological invention
"60 Minutes" doomed to repeat itself
L(a)ying snow
Multiplying ideologies considered harmful
Linguistics, politics, mathematics
Non-Mayan
Spell simply and carry a big stick
Unnecessarily unclear and ugly
Negation, over- and under-
Merry Kitzmas!
Can You Tell a DVD by Its Publisher?
Trembling to be wrong
Euphemism of the week
Judging a Book by Its Cover
Up against the wall, Marshalls shopper
... working the control yoke with his toes
Is there any gobbledegook?
No ideas, please, we're the Plain English Campaign
Lundin calling
Uptalk uptick?
The Bilabial Trill Has Had Its Moment
From TV to text, Part 1
From TV to text, Part 2
Linguistics hot this week
Instant boilerplate email reply key
Like a rolling stone
Je pense, donc je suis un lapin
Rats beat Yalies: Doing better by getting less information?
Elizabethan English: Undead in Appalachia?
Porous another one
News flash: "dyke" not (necessarily?) disparaging
Jackass of the Week
Get to
A result that no sensible person could have intended
Pick-up basketballism reaches Ivy League faculty vocabulary
Mid-sentence person shifting
Snowclones hit the big time
Can I help who's next?
liberal linguists
We Have Always Been At War With Oceania
Merriam-Webster Open Dictionary
Wrathful Dispersion Theory
Neologism-tracking down under
IPA Beer
Christmas trees and holiday trees
The long tail: in which Gauss is not mocked, but TWiTs (and dictionaries) are
An ivory-billed relative clause
Wordplay Watch #1: Cruciverbalism on the silver screen
Wordplay Watch #2: The hunt for the ten-square
Icelandic Studies Shifting to English?
Football's F-word
In the car: a 0.1-act play
Cybermundanity
Presidential self-repair
Waiter, there's a metaphor in my soup!
Elite individuals
Deep soup
Churchill vs. editorial nonsense
TalkMan
Trends in presidential disfluency
Going it together
Going it alone
Parli Berluschese?
Oops, we lost North America
Life in these, uh, this United States
Ab surd
Further adventures in "self" expression
Book review review review
Alphabet wars: an update
So I says to myself, "Self, what's up with these Googlecounts?"
The Holy Open Source Media Empires (Eastern and Western variants)
Snowclone blindness
Contrast vs. emphasis in Kyoto
Has George W. Bush become more disfluent?
The past, present, and future of readying
Googlinguistics: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Eating, drinking, sleeping snowclones, part 2: the early years
Hold on, I'm readying
"Twice as long" is 50% longer, or maybe 42% longer, or was it 21% longer?
But the small buckets don't have enough leg room
Eating, drinking, sleeping snowclones
Snowclone shortening
Alphabet wars
It sleeps obedience
Distributed outsourcing
Moral evaluation in the news
Bierce's Law?
Dvorkin dangles
Evil
Stereotypography
Sex doesn't matter
"I don't think that's accurate"? I don't think that's accurate
Disentangling the entanglements
One for the next edition
The oldest Hebrew alphabet?
Another breakfast experiment
Making Yucatec Maya "cool again"
Tawk of the Town
Young men talk like old women
Guttural politics
Better to x than to not y
Shooting too good
Word rage outside the Anglosphere?
Dzongkha and Tsong-kha-pa, Voicing and Aspiration
There ain't no sanity clause...
"Hone in on" before "home in on"?
The Trent Reznor prize for tricky embedding
User Friendly on Localization
Microsoft Outlaws Dzongkha
Squabbles over "Scalito"
Is marriage identical or similar to itself?
Legal meaning: the fine print
Language Log talks, Paper of Record listens
International Spam
Linguistics Required for British Citizenship
Chomsky Named Top Public Intellectual
Literally: a history
A perilous portmanteau?
More Dowdese
The merits of true minds
Buckingham Browne and Nichols
Brigham and Women's: it could have been worse
Needling the Times
The first "Fitzmas"
Scalia on the meaning of meaning
Coordinative naming botches
Don't read it as something more than it's not
Is splanchnic just another word for schmuck?
In or under
The longue duree is not our forte
Trademarking -ix
Prosodically (in)correct
Miered in doubt
Forbes Special Report
The generous village of Yuwawer
Artifacts of the spellchecker age
Preposition the circumstances
Splanchnic on view
More playful alluding
French syntax is (in)corruptible
Truthiness or trustiness?
Software Libre in Cambodia
Better Not Use Q and W
Frankenstrunk, by Jan Freeman
Special linguistic providence
Peeveblogging
In terms of recency,...
The wordiness of English
It's a choriamb, folks
Semantic entanglements
Invariably followed by the phrase
Tropical Storm Alpha
Chebyshev and Murphy in Iraq
Rarely better than de re
English the most idiosyncratic and wordy?
Expressing concern
How Do They Come Up With These Things?
Whomever controls language controls politics
Miers dementia unlikely
Oh, all right, micturition
Micturation in Vogon Poetry
How Many Holocausts?
Never anything but less than precise
What is so rare as a day in qiqsuqqaqtuq
Censure/Censor Again
Innocent Bongo
Omit needless noises
Jeopardy Doing Okay
My big fat Greek snowclone
And they're just as ignorant as it used to do
Critical tone for a new snowclone
Typhoon Long Wang
The interpreter shortage
Things that are rarely better than they normally are
Omit needless pictures
Playing one 3
Web search counts: half empty or half full of __?
Suffices to say
Pot and Kettle
What Kind of Error?
Grammatical micturation??
No Inuktitut words for no ice?
We are everywhere
Stupid title blather for language articles
Playing One 2
All verbal assassins speak in the passive voice
Kurdish to be Co-official in Iraq
To snowclone or not to snowclone
Playing one
Singular they and plural he/she/it
What is this Harvard?
Naming names
Splanchnic!
YAEVC
Did which-hunting change the Laws of the Game?
Can humanists count?
Hangul Day
Ape Brain Simulators Run Rampant
Another theory
Denotation switching
Grammatical indoctrination at law reviews
Many are discretely called, but few decline and agree?
Ann Coulter, Grammarian
A wink or a nod?
Dear Mr. Pogue
Plain speaking
Linguistic mens rea
Jeopardy Gets It Wrong Again
Stickler Shock
The cultural importance of jokes
Jeopardy Gets It Wrong
Worth a repetition
Prescriptivism and national security
English-Teaching Robots?
Only 7% of variance shared across data from different web search engines?
Warmth and the French language
Doing the undo
Avoiding the obvious
Another overearnest comedy of fact checking
The Truth About French
Rebuttle
The miserable French language and its inadequacies
Burnt offerings
Paradoxes of the imagination
Philologists say ...
Tingo and other lingo
Multilingual Google
Today's wretched hyphenation
Submissions to AAAI weblog symposium due in 10 days
Unicode Maps
Times Have Changed
Wikipedia on Simpsons words
An apology
What, me violate copyright?
The New Yorker is unfazed (though ungrammatical)
Shorter yet
Football in Navajo, anyone?
Who is this exalted parrot?
Counting people
You da man
New Yorker search engine stark staring mad
Acrostic fame
P-P-P-Pick up an allusion
R!?
Out of the y'all zone
Shortest published sentence of the year
Ritual interviews
The evolving etiquette of "as such"
The noses of wrath
More on Murray Emeneau
Reminiscences on a theme by Emeneau
Ethical nostrils
Pointless incessant barking
Syntactic Incompetence?
Effing avoidance (cont.)
Two, three... many prefabricated phrases
Leading with the chin
Inveigling against the bed-wetters
A five-letter password for a man obsessed with Susan
Leave the Bushmen out of it
Inaugural Embedding
Don't have to live like a refugee
Complexity
Call me... unpronounceable
Stupid bank transfer scam email
There's studies
Someone like me, someone such as myself
Cartoonists on the grammatical front line
The continuing misrepresentation of FOXP2 effects
Illuding memory
No pain, no gain?
Wordsmiths
Modes of emphasis
A parse for the ages
The Great Tradition
After dinner with those constitutional ladies in Iraq
When "there's" isn't "there is"
Park it if you can
Finding vs. looting
Political Correctness Beyond Thunderdome
Legislatively Challenged
Leading questions and frickin' cooks
Killing me softly with their slides
Google Purge
New Orleans is essentially an arm of the Gulf of Mexico
Encoding Puzzle Answer
An Encoding Puzzle
"Grammar cranks" of the right
Encounters with Silliness
Scammers' Language
The modish macron
Never mind the storm surge, watch out for those toponyms
Which It's Happy Bunny are you?
'Tis the gift to be simplistic
Disowning The Brothers Grimm
No more inveigling in California courts
"Approximate" quotations can undermine readers' trust in The Times
Ultima Toolies
If it kwa's like a duck...
Mountweazel and esquivalience
Journal-mediated scholarly debate: slow and ceremonial conversation
JP versus FHC+CHF versus PJ versus HCF
Robertson, Bonhoeffer and "taking out" dictators
An unspeakable title
Remedial history for Pat Robertson -- better editors for the MSM
Tar heel, Brahmin; edited, unedited; whatever...
Units
You can call it x all you want
When "fuzzy" means "smoothed piecewise linear"
British Science: West Point takes the lead
Maybe it was John Dryden
Minorities as legal minors?
Interprète, L'
The duty to correct
Reading(s) in the social sciences
The birth of an eggcorn
More illusions
No fuckin' winking at the Times
Do so if you gotta
Bullshit: invented by T.S. Eliot in 1910?
Modesty at Henry Holt
Labov's Test
Onpassing, outgassing, and upskirting
Missing decades in Dutch, French and German
Silly talk about linguistics
To stumble in their ways from the ancient paths
What happened to the 1940s?
Desertion and plundering -- not!
This time it matters
Lack of editorial oversight in the mainstream media
Another open access experiment
The Jerk-o-Meter
GNU GSS in Kinyarwanda
Rorschach Science
Chimwiini exemplified, tax perceived, uncertainty admired
Disambiguating
Under the constitution and not over it
Just between Dr. Language and I
Never thought the day would he see
Contextual tautologies
Science vs. semantics
The thug and the slut
A field guide to grammar
Tossing technical terms around
One world, how many bytes?
Finna and tryna
"on" time
Emphatic unreduction again
On making stuff up
Illustrations
Google gods: please make the * shine again!
Mordac visits Geoff Pullum
Anxious and pleistocene musings
Welcome to the NFL
And every lion tongue cast down
Well, 10 out of 17 isn't bad...
Bright line missing
"Quotations" with a word error rate of 40-60% and more
Selective quotation at the Globe?
Bertie and Jeeves as Babus
You read it here first
Tudor linguistic homogeneity?
To hear the blatter of grackles and say invisible priest
A chronicle of signs and sounds
The The, the The The, and The Who
Aux-initial clause with complex subject heard in spontaneous speech!
Thee bands
A film that speaks for itself -- in Mayan?
The the the and the thee the
Could there possibly be a less enticing premise for a blog entry?
The phonetic poetics of "a"
Shakespeare as a Tarheel, Ajax as a privy
Analysis and authenticity
Poteaux roses
Of four parts, one
Grammar school for scandal: Rove suspected of parsing
Curses!
Of Thee (and Ay) I sing
Don't look at their eyes!
Dykes at the TMRC
Roll over Bourbaki, and tell Cholesky the news
Documenting dykes
Proper Ebonics of all things
Bakhtin in the West Wing
Dangling modifier arrested in Beeston
Adverbial license
Giving first aid the already disheveled hair projection
You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse
The NYT updates the framing wars
Are we conversational, or not?
Disparaging trademarks and the lexicography of tools
Beaten
"Variant of, error for, or punning on"
Wrong and wronger
Zoning in
She's working from her coffeepot
Fingertip search
No splitting in court
Learning the ropes in the trenches with Dan Brown
A few players short of a side
Fidditch forever
I been there before
Cleanskins
Department of rarely-used cliches
Flaccid designators
Vocatives we doubt ever got vocked
Modified limited out hanging
(Hallucinatory) etymology as argument
The I states
Lexical reversal
Still more Declaration of Independence
They have ears, but they hear not
The lethal laugher
Robin Cook tries his hand at linguistic analysis of Arabic
What a difference a comma makes
Internal inconsistency
A small wager
Linguists beware
Quotes from journalistic sources: unsafe at any speed
Maybe not so WTF after all
Disclosing classified information, salva veritate
It had to happen sometime
More on tanzim qa'idat al-jihad etc., etc.
Copy-editing terrorism
Illiterate lottery swindle spam
Get 'em while they're young
Latin quiz: everyone gets an A, especially Chris Waigl
Today's annoying bureaucratic noun-noun compound
E pluribus unum: a Latin quiz
Danger! Gullible fieldworker!
All your letters are belong to us
Avoidance
That's American
Dangling modifier in the Declaration of Independence
Documenting snowclones, dating them
Copyrighting everything
Couch Potatoes and Canola
stealthistitle
What is this 'snowclone' of which you speak?
I'monna
Not that adjective of (a) noun
Rummy's last throe
I'ma
Ethnography, journalism and interview rituals
The elephant fights back
EMELD
[expletive discussed]
More comments on quotes
Bringing journalism into the 21st century
The French aren't really against
If we look, simply, to the French
Caring more or less
Conjunction and punishment
Clueless in Dallas
Bizzerk
Heavy metal umlaut
Either/and, both/or
Down with journalists!
Spanish in Charlotte in 1965
The ships, it shuts everything up
Ritual questions, ritual answers
Ipsissima vox Rasheedi
Not over it is
Adios, FCC?
What did Rasheed say?
Enforcer Syndrome (pre-adolescent phase)
Protesting words
A recipe for WTF coordination
But how can you buy or sell a literary invention?
The CliffsNotes version
The care less train has left the station
Even more etymological arguments
Etymology as argument again
Cliffhanger
Language don't get no respect
Etymology as argument
Vietnamese restaurant and Google threaten strike?
Descent into the advice literature
The case of the mysterious vanishing [i]
Job opportunity: joke checker at McSweeney's
Language, trade and sex
Burger is as burgher does?
When does it bear X-ing?
Linguists continue to get no respect
A new idea about the evolution of language
Mix master
WTF coordinate questions
Spinoza Prize awarded for cognitive neuroscience of language
Cubist syntax
You are in a maze of twisty little conversations, all alike
The intensified crack of dawn?
The butt-crack of dawn
Women with tea
Captain Crunch among the literati
What's wrong with Plain English?
Blog or Block?
How well do you spell?
Blinded by content
France officially adopts the German pronunciation of "blog"
Step on a crack, break a grammar rule
Polysemy in action
That's why they call it x
OED obsolete on "obsolete"
X-ing outside the Y
Who are you writing to?
Scanting out
Fearful (also nauseous, addictive, dubious, suspicious...) symmetry
That's such a, like, coincidence
Stanley Fish moves into linguistics
Knowingly corruptly persuade
How soon before we see the complexities?
Autoantonymy
Addictive to eggcorns?
Soon before
Still unslacked
Moreso
The best of one
Preparing (for?) a pandemic
Smokin' too much Fowler
Case nuances
Locating the sarcasm bump?
Language Quiz #4: the answer
Pass the hát.
Gone to get pants: a handwriting recognition story
Communication via erectile appendages
George W. Bush and Sally O'Reilly's ass
Memory of qualities: armed structure and crystals
Yoda is Luce reborn
Language Log like list
Mascot Names and Etymology
Joy and contempt
The temptation of overnegation
Does Hayden Christensen have a clitic problem?
Language Quiz #4
Five more thoughts on the That Rule
Secure and insecure scare quotes
More on Canadian French preposition stranding
A 16th-century eggcorn
An avalanchlet of snowclones
The condescension of descriptivism
"Est-cela si beaucoup de demander?"
Unclear of Yoda's syntax the principles are, if any
Juliet was wrong
Obligatorily split infinitive in real life
Ginormous
Syntax is a disturbance in the there
Fasten = Grecian?
Speak this way I do because wiser than I actually am I sound
Huzod?
The hounds of ADS-L
Yoda's syntax the Tribune analyzes; supply more details I will!
Cartoon in the snow
"still unpacked": threat or menace?
Antique snowclones
Still unpacked after all these years
Ending with a preposition
Once a snowclone, always a snowclone
Indirect speech acts in Detroit
Missing Links
a bad 'un
The Dangling Participles
Either too high or too low
Pass the Oat-Fiber Cubic
Linguistic pseudoscience lives in academia!
This is, like, such total crap?
More things that aren't eggcorns
Moving both forward and backward
The essence of this post, which you are about to read, ...
The syntax/prosody interface: a cartoon version
Insurgent Midgets in Iraq?
The Fellowship of the Predicative Adjunct
How many scientists does it take to see a rock rat?
What's 420 feet high and travels at 120 mph?
Luckily still not untracked
Stuff
Historically untracked
Stottlemyre's Save Helps Brown Gets Untracked
What I currently know about which and that
A lot depends on how you frame it
Darwinian evolution is so over
Realistic surrealism
The Dan Brown Beat
Lost in Translation
Kansas: a joke?
Not to or to not
The people from the CCGW are here to see you
Ethnologue: Languages of the World: Fifteenth Edition
Chiune Sugihara
She and he in the Wall Street Journal
Chomsky testifies in Kansas
Linguists boycott Kansas intelligent design hearings
Why is "compound" code for "cult"?
Restoring the trivium (+ one)
Is "compound" code for "cult"?
Queens, but
Google library ninjas launch "virulent attacks" on European culture
Ne, innit?
Things may be more complex than they seemed at first
News flash: the effect of politics, athletics and sex on IQ
Don't do this at home, kiddies!
Laying in the past
Linguistically noteworthy dates in May
Never mind
The Poetry Corner
Canadian "eh", Brooklyn "hey", hiphop "yo"
Canadian "eh" and Japanese "ne"
um, em, uh, ah, aah, er, eh
Open access eh
Le plan biblio advances
The meaning of eh
Ambiguity
A tale of two media
Linguistic candidate coverage
Crisis ≠ Danger + Opportunity
News flash: European national libraries are willing to take EU money
Replyese, or everyday English?
Voilá: the movie
Standing out by blending in
Bad translation?
"This was a total embellishment"
Bad ads
Amaz-ing
Language and gender: the cartoon version
Strange bookfellows
And the answer is: abemus
News about brain structure in Williams Syndrome
Think on, think off
Save those scraps
Better a spectacular blunder than a hint of unseemliness
Habemus or abemus?
The King of Linguistics
Tho Fan
Rampant malaprops, companionable
Another day, another reprinted press release
Words needed for words used for special reasons
Unreliable dialect identification help
Quit email, get smarter?
Language: the anti-beer?
Ku two
Smoke signals and sounds
Ku?
Everybody can write and nobody writes well
A new incompleteness theorem
(Mis)Informing Science
English-Only in West Virginia
Quebec English Teachers
Habemus linguam?
Could language be more popular than porn?
Waiting for the punch line
A new form of the Urim and Thummim?
And they're all unzipped
The virus is in the mail
Laisser who?
Word strength ethics
What is "sausage-eating bastard" in Latin?
The future of the history of usage
Cybernetic text
Linguistic sorcerers
Pledge break psycholinguistics: production
Pledge break psycholinguistics: perception
Wrong for so long
The RIAA tries a new direction
Watch out Google
Human-machine communication
Astounding Coordinations (continued)
What's real?
FLoP is not?
Still more WTF coordinations
FLoP and anti-FLoP
The pointless game of grammar Gotcha
Stupid redundant warning blather
The unwanted conversation of other people
Enhance breast size by 80%
Brother Cattle Prod of Reasoned Discussion
Language in the social and behavorial sciences
Can software tell a lie?
What's in a name (reduced media edition)?
Normalization denormalization
Monks in space
Vatican commentary by limerick
Defense Language Transformation Roadmap
Dangling Milan
"The Japanese are Japanese because they speak Japanese"
I didn't know...
Mmm
Umami
The rhetoric of relevance
Higher scrabble scores lead to lower test scores
Hartman's Law confirmed again
Go Cards
Mall semantics
The sound of one hand waving*
Elephant talk
Cartoons
When is subalternism conciliatory?
Noisily channeling Claude Shannon
Odd landings
The station that you really makes a difference
News of the day
No word for "lazy hack parroting drivel"?
Google, champing at the bit
Absolutely is totally not definitely
Pick a site, any adjunct site
Google as the MVWE ("Mountain View Word Exchange")
5 billion lost articles, 6 interesting posts
Chomping at the font
Noblesse Oblige
They may be midgets
Underwear sociolinguistics
The disappearing modal: for those who'll believe anything
Tomorrow was yesterday
Chinese in Law and Order
Bill Clinton has a blog
Liberalism is the new communism
Another dangling modifier
Cargo Cult poetry?
Pharyngealization and annoyance
Europe's response to Google to be managed by... Microsoft?
A euphoric dream of being scientific
Retrodiction confirmed
Spatial gender
EuGoogle advances
Anishinaabemowin
Up with (more) good, down with (more) bad
Axe a stupid question
Cargo cult linguistics
Tighty-whities: the semantics
Raising and lowering those tighty whities
Saying more with less
Another bullshit night in suck city
Orthocorrection
Tidy-whiteys
France defies Google
Fo did it
Franklin Medal to Aravind Joshi
Surnames
The winter eggcornucopia
The experience of capricious censorship
The moose who chose to lose whose nose?
Ke'o and Ngadha
Two types of "errors" (again) and it's all "grammar" (again)
Somewhere back of the teeth in Glasgow
Unwinese
Rats off to ya!
No word for sex
It's not our fault
More WTF coordinations
Simlish as 21st-century Grammelot?
Bovine excrement on NPR
Gibberish by any other name
Stunningly inept modifier manners
Fragments from my to-blog list
Cultural Constraints on Grammar
Up for the downshift
More bullshit grammar
The grammar of bullshit
OED Science Fiction update
Jive etymologies
Box spaghetti straight
The progress and prospects of the digital BNF
WTF grammar
Don't expect this post to make sense or any help from me
Raising standards -- by lowering them
W.O.D.
butt to buck, start to stark, or vice versa?
An eggcorn hatches
*
Google usage
Computer does something-or-other to Moby Dick -- in 9.5 seconds
You Ain't Haydn Nothin'
Stop him before he invents again
Speaking truth to TOEFL
Disagreements continue about "Hobbit" brains
Hindi and math skills
Does English Hinder Math Skills?
Pechelingues
annals of ambiguity
Gari
Structures of words vs. structures of numbers
Baby got what?
It was a clever pun all along :-)
Revenge of the Codex People
Now the FCC tells us, three months too late
Horace diagnoses Ivan Watson's mistake?
Without Washington's support... who??
On the characteristics of natural languages and certain European nationalities
The dogs of speech technology
Got some dawgs runnin' around heah: a natural language processing story
The rhythm of the Remington
Miss Gould passes
Smart kids
Save our slogans
It is up to us how fast it changes
Waiting for the forces of linguistic change
Eight Days a Week
Overgreen my bad
Psychology geek valentine
The Log sprouts
Language change after childhood
Look lively, troop!
Two troops killed
Unleash the mighty power of marketing lies!
Funniest book ad of the month
Nevertheless Hardy, however
Ten days late for Valentine's day
Vulcan phylogeny
Blogs disgoogled?
Vulcan salutations to the Elfin Goblins of the Mountains
Nevertheless in the gay nineties
Fossilized prejudices about "however"
The evolution of disornamentation
Google defies Europe?
Desperate entomologists
A Hobbesian choice
No smooth ride is as valuable as a rough ride
Abu what again?
E.B. White: now with 60% more adjectives
The blowing of Strunk and White's rules off
The blowing of each other up
Bullshit
School of squander
Southern accent reduction courses cropping up from Texas to Kentucky?
Eggcorn database
Abu Ghraib is not about ravens after all (?)...
By the power vested in all of us
Who loves whose country?
Patriots and pronouns
Sphere is here
Reaching your own constructions
Internet targets Eason Jordan, CNN paves him over
Blogs push Eason Jordan past the tipping point
Orientalist meets occidentalist
Metonymy and Dean Wormer
Lightfoot
Slander in Seattle
What am I, Lewis Carroll?
Anne of Green Gables and conversational optimization
Nowhere to really else go
Another peace <-> piece shift
Type twice for truth?
Pernicious ambiguity at Davos
Blogroll J and K
Metapragmatic apologia
Set theory at Green Gables
Never pronouncing east Thursday?
Blogroll F to I
Syntactic and notional number
Blogroll A to E
Collective nouns with singular verbs and plural pronouns
For linguists only
Rant
Phrasal prepositions in a civil tone
SOV emerges in the Negev
The Chicago Manual of Style --- and grammar
Are linguists natural-born Hayekians?
I just can't phantom it
More dubious grammar testing
Test taking as audience design?
The multi-purpose linguist
The SAT fails a grammar test
Air quotes in New York
Not everything that passes
Bait and switch
If this is Tuesday it must be minimalism
"Nation split on Bush as uniter or divider"
Contaminated identities
Flag waving
Adequately explaining explanatory adequacy
Stark raven mad
Star Craving Mad
What is explanatory adequacy?
Grammar is bad for kids
Defecated to eggcorn fans everywhere
A linguistic contribution to American politics
Agreement with nearest always bad?
Publishers are good; really!
Senses of freedom
"Everything is correct" versus "nothing is relevant"
Now about those facts ...
CRF bibliography
More arithmetic problems at Google
A Series of Unfortunate Events
* me P and call me *
Questioning reality
Google recall (They stole his mind,now he wants it back.)
Fried Snow
when things don't add up
Prince Harry the Nazi?
What researchers really need from web search
Uh Oh...
hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray!
English in deep trouble?
Academic gestures in the Southwest (Conference)
American college totems
Terry Crowley
<abbr title="It's a joke">
The storm is real, the word is still fake
Don't take your language for granite
Satan-worshipping Bushes?
The mystery of #12
NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING, BUT NOT BY CHOICE
METAL, MEDDLE, METTLE, MEDAL, ETC.
The Economist on internet linguistics
Buffaloing buffalo
Nearly all strings of words are ungrammatical
Deep-seeded ignorance
More on Browning, Pippa and all
Our bird aviary
Twat v. Browning
The kaleidoscope of power
The scenic route
Lower Case Names?
Capitalization and Mr Cummings
Mattress mice
Dismortality and puppetutes
Parenthetical puns?
Was it Frazier or the copy editor?
Don't put up with usage abuse
Subtle Distinctions
The water tower was higher than they
Dave Barry, linguist
Phonetic gaydar again
FLoPs
Overnegation alert
The syntax and morphology of ex-parrots
Rats
? taR .rM, siht si egaugnal tahW
Horace and Quintilian on Correct Language
Homo Hemingwayensis
ADS Word of the Year
Our indoor or outdoor pool
Deresiewicz on Crystal and MacNeil and Cran
Noi lai and contrepets
Homeric objects of desire
Mmm, exams!
Dinner at the L.S. Cabal
Military Dialects
And now to revive Cornish?
Receiving what condition their condition is in
Clarity and respect
Hip to be square
What can you Bret Easton Ellis to that?
Near? Not even close
Please evacuate the area: a speech synthesis story
John Ford movie to be dubbed... in Irish
Banned in Sault Ste. Marie
×åñòèòà Íîâà Ãîäèíà
Implicature in the service of a moral panic
Waves, contagion, and the spread of linguistic changes
booger blogger anaphora
Wild Linguists
CASS corpus
McCloskey on the rebounding of Irish
And a right guid willie waught to you, too, pal
Fast times in the primate brain: no special providence
Don't worry
Unredacted discussion
It's your choice at the MLA
Here comes the accusative
Mountain Tidal Waves
MLA Story
Eggheads' Naughty Word Games
Meaning and Necessity
UIMA
Irish on the Rebound?
Ginger Snap
About half
Gingerly We Roll Along
The law of the excluded bowling alley
Living, staying, resting, standing, being
Talking animals: miracle or curse?
Staying and living
J'y suis, j'y reste.
More threats to language
You're only staying if you're not
Blending in
The Meaning of Kemosabe Jokes
What kemosabe really means
Kemosabe
Do hybrid whales sing hybrid songs?
A threat to the English language
All's fair in love and REDACTED
Higher-order whammying
The way the cookie bounces
Microsoft dodges a booger bullet
"... people who love me (be)cause of I've been able to bring them some joy ..."
Diagram this
Prescribe Away
Prescriptivism and folk linguistics
The economics of grading
Mocosoft Saved from Microsoft
O ye of little faithing
Begin arming Israel
Arboreal hors d'oeuvres
I seem to be a literalist
As opposed to a barn-turner
OFAC Relents
Faith, hope and charity -- all verbs?
Encore une fois, dude
She's they until you acknowledge her
So which is it?
Precision, expressivity and ambiguity
Religious syntax
Bibster
Opening for a copy editor at the Associated Press
A misattribution no longer to be put up with
Typed citation links
Hawaiian spelling contest answers
Scholarly suit
Gift ideas for hir and hir
Dudes, It's John and Marsha
Saving Hawaiian
From dude to duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
Duding out
Da da da
Dude, no way
You got a point there
Dude cartoon decoded
A Churchill story up with which I will no longer put
Dude
Prairie dog talk
Dander: froth or scurf?
A fine, or imprisonment... and both
Second opinions on "hobbits"
Another comedian for singular their
Baffling award of the year, again
Lexemes and word forms
Self-stopping
Whose knees?
Overpermissive quotatives: grammar change or thesaurusizing?
A "boxing day election" -- or not?
Semen, green rice and the rate of internet decay
Linux in Marathi
It's like a glimmer on the horizon
Writing style and dementia
Jackson's Dilemma and Alzheimer's
Thank God for film: Dan Brown without the writing
Even in their own language
Folk etymologies and eggcorns in Riddley Walker
Scirus
"Blog" wins
More tall tales
A mixter o aal an new
Latte lingo: Raising a pint at Starbucks
No time for an apostrophe
Politics and language in Ukraine
Quiz #3 Answer
Twos and Threes
Once is cool, twice is queer
The Fall Eggcorn Crop
The Language Log Code
Thanks Giving
A plain English reading level
That the same kinds are not everywhere uniquely named
Making up names
Arctic folk at loss for words again
Google Scholar
Academic outsourcing
Hey Judge, these instructions are, like, too long or, like, in Latin or something
No lawmaker left behind
I said a hip hop = asereje ja
English in Kurdistan
A man stopped on I-74, someone rear-ended him, a semi saw the accident, and then...
Canadian translation quiz prize awarded
Inadvertent eponymy
Translation quiz: Canadian
Uplifting link for the day
Sorry survey
Not a word!
Birlashdirilmish yangi Turk alifbesi banned again?
Wallraff subverts English syntax
A riddle
More split references
No word for robins
I'm starting to get like "this is really interesting"
Rumsfeld overnegates Powell, Powell uses "fulsome" correctly
I'm like, all into this stuff
Another quiz!
Seems like, go, all
Localizing Computer Software
African language computer farrago
A journalist's perspective on (bias in) media citations
The "liberal professoriate" -- not so fast
Always accompanied by the qualifier
Looks like a reference problem
This construction seems that I would never use it.
Linkfest, focusing in the end on sex
The Curious Grammar of Ohio: The Local Color Illusion
Talking about whom you are and who you're seeking
Oxen, sharks, and insects: we need pictures
Snoot? Bluck.
Reintroducing Diagramming
Renowned author Dan Brown staggered through his formulaic opening sentence
Climb that iceberg
C-word fuss in Chi-town
Theory of mind on Mars
Language Quiz II: The answer
Language Quiz II
Dan Brown still moving very briskly about
American Rhetoric
A Cootchie-Cootchie-Coo Theory of Language Acquisition
An Escape from Election News into Brahui
Pronouncing solemnly
How to decide who to vote for
Keys and fetters
Pica on the Mundurucú
Marx: red or blue?
Femina floresiensis?
F. floresiensis
Language, thought and counting in Amazonia
Is the Future Tense for Losers?
Mosh
The unspeakable
World Champions???
The base
Moi is what moi am
Red Sox win
More Borrowed Pronouns
Hominin, hominid, hominoid, whatever
"Appalling" discovery of hobbitoid hominins
The Axis of Spam
Scott on Saxon swine
-ome is where the art is
Puncturing etymology porn
Computing in Zulu
Wilgoren invents a trend
[fake [news show]] or [[fake news] show]?
An informative tautology
More on Pountain on Spanish
True tautologies from Bush
Here are the proofs of your grammer book
Horror and boredom in Castile
Bushian tautologies? I don't think so
Their GO-mark'd love
An evening with Nunberg
Bush and "changing the language"
Two quick eggcorns
The answer
They are a prophet
Etymology porn
Snowclone sightings
Am I boring, or are you?
No Left Turn
Language quiz
More on Kerry's French
Tout le monde aime le Log
More on Phonetic Gaydar
Kerry's French (or Haitian)
Phonetic gaydar
You can't always get what you want
Time and space again
How Shall a Thing Be Called?
Falafel, loofah, whatever
Trevor's Law explained.
When the past piles up
Making the World Safe for "Democracy"
Fear North Dakota
Time is space: when fronter is farther behind
Ceci n'est pas un Bushism
Is parapalegic like nucular?
Putting the buggy before the horse
Twenty greatest equations -- minus three?
There will always be an England
Getting kids (and politicians) wrong
Policy vs. "character" -- and its linguistic correlates
How to Decide Who to Vote For
Beware linguistic and political stereotypes
Trevor's Law of hip etymology
Personal and intellectual history of sentence diagrams
Down the gopher poll
Diagramming Sentences
Language rage in Spain
"Sort Of": As American as Heinz Ketchup
The question of the question and the question of the place
Westward on the eastbound shuttle; or, what a long strange trip that would be
Faulty Intelligence
Sex in private
Angry at the guy asking?
The gopher's eye view
His refusal to disgrace herself
Gibson scores a "Bushism", with an assist to Kerry
decisions remember yet Europe: ladies gentlemen left behind
A Milli Vanilli president?
Paulos vs. Dvorkin
The self-styled grammarian: no respect
Loopy defenses of the shuttle bus sign
Statistical misspelling
"It's hard to know where to start"
Un système où tout se tient, and east is west
A westward loop
Decisiveness and clause structure
Web Crow
Wednesday morning grammar maven
Vociferously global
Good theory, bad practice -- or contrariwise?
Kerry's words and Bush's silences
Language scholarship and language teaching
Crib notes and earphones
This isn't rocket science
The rhetoric of silence
Getting it wrong
What "a hundred times" means
hard opponent must hope: today even respect issues
Does size matter?
Herring Communication
Decisiveness is SVO: a Hitlerian theory of communication?
Post-apocalyptic toponymy
From hacker to high priest
Splitters and Lumpers - Then and Now
Plagiarism and coincidence
Ask, and ye shall receive
Flash: fontgate at Language Log
Giving the Army a the hand
331 extra linguists are not enough
Watch out, Ron
"A comparison from which something might have resulted"
Words from the West
Birlashdirilmish yangi Turk alifbesi
How alphabetic is the nature of molecules
A capital to stir kumiss with
Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!
Eska and Ringe on Forster and Toth
Learn your grammar, Becky
Happy birthday, eggcorn!
A random monkey begins Julius Caesar
Once more unto the Breach, search engine hackers!
Monkey Shakespeare
Little Green Apples at the Blue Moon Bar
Role reversal
Old Geeks for Truth
Sleep your way to ocular health
An odd little linguistic artifact
Which vs. that: integration gradation
Inexpert and expert phishing spam
Facts, theories, fetishes
Italian: to vowel or not to vowel
Autumn Day
Lakoff hits the big time, blogwise
Three vs. four asterisks at Boondocks
Phishing
Forensic syntax for spam detection
Medical Interpretation
Translation and freedom
Freedom of speech and obfuscation
Stress for Russian tennis players' names
The missing word is Société!
A Mexican perforator by any other name
Garden paths at the Guardian
A dishonest implicature
Which vs. that: a test of faith
Two bites of authors' remorse
CBS and typography, BBC and herpetology
Which vs that? I have numbers!
Blogorama: part 1
The language faculty in a business school
Sidney Goldberg on NYT grammar: zero for three
A kind word for a new Microsoft product
You couldn't have a starker contrast
Catalan, Galician, whatever
The jello of bike locks
Someone set us up the stress clash
The Secret Sins of Academics
Typography, truth, and politics
Voice writing
Dialects without borders
Purple advertising prose
"Protest" Banner
Uncorrectable Reading Pronunciation?
Another ex-mistake
Translation and analysis
New Open-source speech code from IBM
Final periods and quotation marks: harder than you thought
What did Cheney say about Kerry and terrorism?
The psychodynamics of grammatical correction
That's not how that works
Thoughts on the Pericu
Text message novel
Ex-words, ex-parrots and nominal tense
The coming death of whom: photo evidence
Report on Yukon Native Languages
"Wake" as predicted track
More on Lakoff on framing
Type like a pirate day
Headlines from heads
Trapped
Egghorn
Speaking Puerto Rican
Neanderthal Historical Linguistics
Being a linguist, doing linguistics
Dr. Doolittle's Delusion
The globalization of daring and originality
No abstract concepts for them
True to media type
Bisexual chic is back already
Bisexual chic: the facts
Why I don't use A9 much
Postcards from eggcornea
Blame Miles Bartholomew, Ward Stone Ireland and IBM
Los Senadores y El Presidente
The perils of prescriptivism
Not all Bushisms originate with Bush
Words and ideas
Frames and messages
Pamphleteering, old and new
Prickly Paradigms under a bushel?
"Stop Yelling at the TV and Get Online!"
Bouma
Translation and free speech
Here, take this stand I made
Reportedly versus Formally
Tear down this wall
Some Open Access advice for Michael Silverstein
"No despicable part of their contemplation"
Stupid contentless political blather
Welcome bikers!
Open access again
Humans context-free, monkeys finite-state? Apparently not.
Incommensurability and indeterminacy
"There'd be a difference in his voice"
Determining whether a lottery ticket will win, 99.999992849% of the time
BS conditional semantics and the Pinocchio effect
Urban legend eggcorns
Transmutation of wood chips at the BBC
Wohnata
Still on the eggcorn beet
On counting and throwing
A letter from the Lord Quirk
The Straight Ones: Dan Everett on the Pirahã
Wretch
Abusive publisher of the month
A marquee eggcorn
On the eggcorn beet
Hot features
Further adventures of Grice in Wonderland
On not doing what you fail to understand a fictional duchess told you not to
Parsing the Duchess
Neurotic American English
The Duchess on being what you would seem to be
Acres of diamonds
Olympic event named by a linguist
Language, thought and marketing
Life without counting throwing
The French and the Piraha
Scattered brains
The outlandish and the unanswerable
Dead language, dead factor
Update on the Germanspellingreformoppositionmovement
Do-it-yourself classics
Generic He?
Whose English?
One, two, many -- or 'small size', 'large size', 'cause to come together'?
Eggcorn and malaprop among the flowers
Canada Supreme Court gets the grammar right
Terence in the Global Lunchroom
Are Women Persons?
Chock, choke, chuck, check, chalk, jock, shock, chog: An ancient plantation of ache-corns
Journalist uses multiple logical operators correctly
Confusing to Whom?
New intensifiers
Nothing that cannot impede even by failure
Redeemable in cash
Binding time
In the Arms of Another Man?
Bu?? naked
"Schopenhauer's Debate Camp"
Hand fisted
Getting next to
Can Geoff Pullum rest on his laurels?
Disgusting Condiments
Disgust for accents : pre-adaptation or figure of speech?
A derangement of blogs
Emergency call for Dr. IPA
On Condoleezza Rice Confirming Disclosure of Pakistani's Identity
Linguists and prime numbers
Koko's Trip to the Dentist
An Autobiography About Someone Else?
Very good peppers
Single out and double up
Illustrated eggcorns
Rhetorical flypaper plagiarized from inspired by Schopenhauer?
Like a fish needs a bicycle
Chocolate teapots and fireguards
Superfluity and Uselessness
It's a big ask
It's ablaut time
Many new rules a little meaningfully
More on spelling unreform
"State-ordered dyslexia"
Half
Virtual IPA keyboard from E-MELD
Documenting endangered languages
The Navajo Language Academy
Presidential Immortality
Indo-Canadian Food
The acid test of foreign language command
Rhetorical flypaper
Music of the spheres -- and everything else
Content clauses are not necessarily complement clauses
Disgust and language: metaphor, reality, both?
Making the point
If P, so why not Q?
Big Grammar is Watching You
Disgust for voices and accents
Empathizing with Simon Baron-Cohen's cousin
Blogging's got a brand new bag
Amateurs and professionals
Power through damage
Grammar and essay grading
PDF haha
Blog cultures, academic and otherwise
Referrer log flotsam
WYSIAANWTG: What You See Is Almost Always Not What They Get
Science, politics and fair play
Groseclose and Milyo respond
Verbatim fragments online
Not on planet earth
all things phonology
A long sort of grasping grope
Joe versus the semi-conversation
What book did John buy and read the magazine?
Chattels personal, personal chattels, and (fresh) fish
The status quo just can't stand
Autism as lack of neurological coordination
couldan't, shouldan't, wouldan't
Mixed action of ejectment
Not Joao Euro
Doing the Kenosha kid
John Doe, Joe Farnarkle and John Furphy
Ain't I'm a stinkah
Calling Samuel Beckett
A birthday card from the Trib
Matti, Nanashi and Fred
Old wine in new bottles
You better focus, cos it ain't no one can quote this
How (that) now, brown cow?
Skazeetch skazootch skazeetch skazootch
That's not how that ... is it?
(That's) how that
Estuary English
The Queen's business
The beauty of Brummie
Standard = Neutral?
How that?
A new record for within-U.S. linguistic prejudice?
IPA in Japan
IPA in beer (and other) ads
Kerry's French cousin, and Derrida's obscurantisme or otherwise
Two paradigms of eloquence
The thin line between error and mere variation, part 4: Do I misspeak?
You've come a long way, baby
Europeans are Republicans (except for the ones that aren't)
Habermas the conservative?
Famous Authors Debate Oral vs. Written Language
Ms. Frizzle, meet Claude Shannon
IPA in the USA
The thin line between error and mere variation, part 3: They started to saying
The straight poop on Fiiijb
'My Life', the British way
Caring less all the time: A variant of the etymological fallacy, and some cautions about the pragmatics-phonetics connection
Freedom, piracy and lobbying
Fiiijb
All's I know is ...
The Cows of Language
Homiesexuals and guys on the down low
Down low, quiet tip
On the DL
The best part of a day
It's about ideas, not words
La yapita
Bear-knuckled politics
You want to lose the etymologist vote?
Michael Moore on back-up vocals at the Aladdin?
"He prefers the perverse French esthetes"
Lagniappe
Uphill and Downhill on the Alpe D'Huez Pitch Track
Pragmatics and semantics at Alpe d'Huez
"Ho ho ho", she laughed in a refined feminine way
Comicbook grammarians
Stop us before we derive again
Dunglish
Unh, Ka-BOOM, BZZURKK
Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious
Save the Big Apple
Woad House
Operatic IPA
Causing us the game
Territory of Information
Is the last not to be seen also the last to be seen?
No respite from the misapostrophers
More on Chekhovian relevance in journalism
The police blotter watch
Emergency call for the pragmatics police
DARPA dissed again
Eggcorn dynamics
The police blotter at the Arcata Eye
Teacher were God Job!
A terminological rant
Blognomens and blognomenclature
Journalists' alleged hedges
Yiteraw Minded
Fly Serendipity Airwaves
Lexical brickbats
Brazil
Research points to link between thinking, doing
English Readings for Chinese Characters
Most of the people in the world could care less
(Auto)biography of a blog thread
Speaking sarcastically?
Doing the word warp again
Iraqi chicken
The rest of the profession
Crime wave
Negation by Association
"Could care less" occurs more
White bred
Conundrums, quibbles and clenches
Citing to riot
Onze Taal and Perlentaucher
Typescript finished: a milestone and a rant
Sputnik and Language
The interpretation of stones and typefaces
A post post post toast post toast post toast post toast post
"Losing" "the subjunctive"
If wine and stew can always, why can't toast?
Trapped on a toastless scope island
It's all grammar
Year of Languages
Spiteful things
Still on the hook
Exit only this lane
Scheduled outage
Only lane bike: road surface psycholinguistics
Caring less with stress
Left turn only
Lederer should care less
Filename generation idiocy.doc
Goldsmith on Harris
Wrong
Lavatory lexicography
Premature multilingualism considered harmful
Don't Dangle Your Participles in Public
Field Notes
An internet pilgrim's guide to accentual-syllabic verse
Comments on comments, again
Eggcorns from all over
"Liberal Bias," Noch Einmal
How Habermas blew it
Talkin' about America
Faze phase
No Professor Left Behind
Isis bibliography
Ray Charles, America, and the subjunctive
I trust not
Unchanging Pronouns?
Pronouns with following antecedents in subordinate clauses
Eggcorn of the day: sir name
Voynich and midfix
Not the * I know: let * be *
Two comments on six keys
Six Key Men of Twentieth-Century Linguistics
The sins of dialogue attribution
Into the blogosphere
Self-exposure at the NY Times
The secret Netherlanders among us
Analyzing voice stress
Prescriptivism and ignorance: together again
A classical malapropism and a hypercorrect eggcorn
Comments: progress and prospects
Just so!
Texting, typing, speaking
A small rant
To pass into a certain condition, chiefly implying deterioration
Speako?
His speech lacked syntax
A bird in the hand is, is...
Information infections in blogspace
Everything you always wanted in a language, and less
English: international and simple
Isis Fest, with emergent free-bees
The thin line between error and mere variation II: going nucular
The thin line between error and mere variation (part 1 of 2)
NEWSFLASH: Safire reads Language Instinct
More Dogs of Language
Scouse is getting scouser
jmfuw ovorzuhle mtworo - instant degree!
Harkening back
The Dogs of Language
Big disagree
Intermittent outages
The thing is is people talk this way. The question is is why? The answer is is (drumroll please) ...
Psycho Simon
Psycho linguists?
Oops, I did "that" again
Korean blog censorship
Harping back or harking back?
Rural-urban bidialectalism and politics
How fakirs became fakers
Jefferson the Gaelic scholar
From phrase list to drama
Wild-caught eggcorns preferred
Like a submarine out of the Gobi desert
Nativism clings to life at 100 or 101
Next store neighbor
Something almost like people skills
"In all cases by a possible combination of any of the above"
The most untranslatable word
Obsessing about punctuation
Writing about writing about writing about writing about a film about Bush
Overstating understatement
Inter faeces et urinam nascimur ridemus
Chatnannies: still missing
Computational origami
Tongue and cheek, hole in corner
Reads, zaps and digresses
MLA Language Map: now without "density"!
Legal redundancy
"Per usual", per usual
Problematics
"Under God" as "Inshallah"
"(Next) Under God," Phrasal Idiom
I Might Have Guessed Parson Weems Would Figure In There Somewhere
Shooting eggcorns in a barrel
Transcriptional abduction
Recursive titles
This is not your granddaughter's spelling bee
What For
Cooking Verbs
Criticizing Pinker the right way
Predicting random eggcorns
A CNN-ism?
Repeating repeatedly
Delightful chaos
Ah me -- ah moo
Legal manners or means
Smoothista
Turn about
Mysterious Google
Feel like that
Mr. Brain's Faggots
ISMS
MLA Language Map
Under God an Idiom?
Word Wars
Okay, make that "half-assed legomenon"
Out with Under God
An armed society is a polite grammatical society
Never say never
Dysfunctional Shift
Grammatical uproar at LiveJournal -- news at 11
Reading Chinese Menus
Antipleonasm and reredundancy
How To Cook and Eat in Chinese
base26
Who knew?
Sharing diversely
Signs or symbols? Words or tools?
More on scientific and scholarly publishing
"Controversial cult" given state OK in Texas?
One nation [head], under God [adjunct]
Dealing with these type situations
W the debater
Modeling banality
Pronouns are like sweaters: Kusunda revisited
Bugaboos
Canine intelligence
At loggerheads
The S-word and the F-word
The strange, new sight
Lo Catalanisme
So now it's dogs that understand language (sigh)
Kusunda
Can relationships between languages be determined after 80,000 years?
At long last
With eggcorn aforethought?
A soul candidly acknowleging it's fault
Those obstinant n's
Liberal gemination
Genocide - present tense
Alan Turing
People whose email reveals them to be gay
Oxymoronic Titles
Dear Dr Geoff
Conservation of gemination: another example
Psycholinguistics in the logging industry
More on Spelling Reform
Improved technology: On envelopes and WordPerfect
Great communication
Stoics
Wait, wait, don't spell me
The 256 names of... that Swedish guy
"Pro-Life" vs. "Anti-Abortion"
Duck Dialects Mimick Human Dialects?
Barrister Idem Idem
What do wine tasting notes communicate?
From scratch
More eggcorns
Pre-requiems
Internally grateful
Formally to indicate
Writing System Reform
Joshua Macy comes clean
Wait, wait, don't transcribe me
(Mis)spelling Gandhi
More on winetalk culture
Grand Cru Smackdown
Apologia pro risu suo
Silly Academic Titles
A thousand things to say about language
The child or the savage orator...
Double-tongued word wrester
Inclimate weather
Construal in Houston
Word puzzle! Word puzzle!
More Perfect
Omit stupid grammar teaching
Feint of heart
In Memoriam
Hey folks, "passive voice" != "vague about agency"
Red vs. Blue reloaded
Another overnegation opportunity: yet vs. yet to
A Prison Riot Over Strict Transitivity
Just as good for hate
Dog Latin of the day
Plummy
Strict transitivity
Flat Yanks, sharp Brits?
The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and other fresh American art songs
Natural language and artificial intelligence
Brad Pitt in Troy: r-lessly round or r-fully flat?
Squelch squelched, predecease whacked, induce terminated
Garfield learns about directives
What is linguistics, and why do they embarrass your international customers?
More conjectures and refutations on strict transitivity
The great vow shift
WhG/gp and other problems of quantification
An ancient and fatherly show
Censorship?
Illustrating obligatory transitivity
AI and Kernighan's Law
Latin on Jeopardy
"if you only speak Arabic, why would you be interested in the Internet?"
When "small" means "large"
"simple navy blue silk" or "wrinkled pigeon-colored number" ?
Unwanted linguistic material: the spam problem
Bush wrongly accused of correct Arabic
Prisons for People, Prisons for Data
We Have Deer and Elk and Bear and Mice Around Here
A simple apageslication
Bush -- and Reuters and Fisk -- get Abu Ghraib wrong
whig-ups?
Webhits on Google per gigapage: A replacement proposal
Participial relative clauses
Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
Sticking in one's crawl
Ghits -- and Whits?
GKP, Gh, GPB
Of the two mild coffees
KiloGhits and megaGhits: measuring web frequency
More winetalk imports into coffee lingo
Trademarks as Adjectives?
Split Decision
Owning ideas
The analysis of the creature
Morning blogs from B to D
Beets and Bitch
Trademark grammar
Rodent grammar
With a magical gesture, reveal the vanish...
The secret of "reveal" revealed!
Not for commitment-phobes: your relationship number
Doux fard
Seven years waiting for a reply on Ebonics
Clarifying status in Wolof by fake disfluency
Dorothy Dunnett cleared of anachronism
Knowledge her last reveal
Microsoft prescriptivism
Terror: not even a noun (says Jon Stewart)
Google and WSD
Owning Words
Fitting names for linguists
Wordcraft
Language enrollments rocket upward in 1998-2002
Snugglebunny is mine
Submit a manuscript, go to jail
Google/Googol Owned?
Great stuff from Q.
Fitting Names
OFAC Censorship Still in Place
From Just So Stories to science, in biology and in pragmatics
More timewasting garbage, another copy-editing moron
BUSH FALLS OUT
Thalerization
Marketing to grammar victims
Marketing the International Phonetic Alphabet
Multilingual Menus
Modification as social anxiety
The International Phonetic Alphabet
No, the burly detective intoned, refusing to agree
Highfalutin writing taught at Harvard?
More on journalistic ignorance of linguistic description
A new verb: to thaler
The sixteen first rules of fiction
Escher sentences: prior art
All your base are belong to which lexical category?
Disgrace
Envoi for the omission of lexical categories
Obligatorily Split Infinitives
Serious just for a verbless moment
Ben Franklin and German
Palatine Boors and their Maryland descendents
Have you been disgraced?
Language Rights in Maryland?
Not bad
Intellectuals in Britain and France
Zut alors!
Lacking articles, conjunctions, ...
Writing without adjectives
Writing prepositionlessly
How extremely rum: elite anti-intellectualism and disfluency
To post verblessly is so jejune!
A verbless post
High plains construction grammar
The verbless of the earth
Status and fluency
Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing
Taggaboo, Abboo Grebb, whatever
Ritual verbal enthusiasm for food
The non-expert on editing
The Internet Pilgrim's guide to g-dropping
Lie or lay? Some disastrously unhelpful guidance
Great scientist joke
Sometimes You Just Have to Play It As It Lays
Approximate inference and global (in)coherence
Gender and tags
Never mind the sex, feel the rhetoric
Aw++
Sexing Rivka
Two out of three on passives
Unspoken Interrogatories
Father of the raven
An Escher Sentence in the wild
Sweet Pee
'you' as in 'pleasure'
Gettin' all autistic on me
Escher sentences
Truth and consequences
Plausible Angloid gibberish
Grammatical complexity and electability
A tin ear
H34R M3, 0 MU53!
We cannot/must not understate/overstate ... ?
Chinese Philadelphia Food
The Languages of the UN
Editor impresses
Avoiding Eurocentrism
Get your boyfriend to move it: a speech perception story
From black to black
When's the Last Time You Heard an Old Person Say "Dadburn It"?
Puzzling accent story of the day
God bless the multilinguals
The Languages of the European Union
Indigoed in Pearlspace
The Dan Brown code
Speakers vs. hearers
We Dispose of Goodle Mystery
We produce and dispose of inner GOODLE.
Classicists decode Da Vinci
Weisbergism of the weekend
Intelligence vs. random fluctuations
Linguist jokes (2): At the pearly gates
"Aw+"
Thumbs up and the "Mother Ship of culture"
Learning to read
Subjects, collaborators, consultants, ???
Gray and Atkinson - Use of Binary Characters
Moomba to you too
More on Gray and Atkinson
HEY, YO!!!
Another overnegation
More on Genocide
Classroom sex and other eclectic acts
Historical semantics
Buckets of beer
Weisbergism of the week
Formal children
A self-annihilating sentence
The coolest language in the world
Glottochronology revisited, very carefully
Have X, will travel
Stone the crows
The Romans Didn't Always Get It Right Either
In due time
More Pseudo-Latin Plurals
Octopussies
Ask Language Log
Little words
In principle, yes
Pseudo-Latin Plurals
Hey day
Conversations with Helpful Google
Sauce for the gander
Lamkin Perbeck, pretender
Attention Deficit
Henning Mankellismus in icon
Memetic virus scanner
Kennings handled
Henning Mangled
Unreasonably in error?
Mais ou sont les flamewars d'antan?
Get 'em while they're young
The FCC and the S-word (again)
The mysteries of... what's his name?
The politics of tongue cutting
Logging Road Language
One used his French, the other didn't
Mere knowledge of the German language cannot reasonably be regarded as harmful
Digital X-rays, easy; patient's name, unfixable
Grice, Pascal, the Times, and Barry Bonds
Boring blogs
23/5
Generational changes: decline or progress?
New Evidence Against the Kensington Runestone
Talking heads
No French please, people are watching
O tempora, o mores
A stubborn survival
Professional Foolishness
Whom humor
ASL at BU
I really don't care whom
Quantifying American suffering and enjoyment: 60 to 1?
The magazine of anarchy on the high seas
Hitting that iceberg
600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell viagra
Balm in Gilead
We are all Big Brother
They have created a new world order
Nanotechnology in action goats
Oop's I did it again
Another punning etymology
Signs
Via in chains
Writers just want to be humiliated
The sci.lang FAQ
Kopi Luwak
It is the nature of a teenager to want to destroy
Stick That in Your Parser and Stroke It
BONDS TIES MAYS
Interface-off: Nielly vs. LL Spool J
The OED: never leave home without it
Mind reading experiments at the University of York
Good advice about advice about usage
Lurking through holes
A Field Guide to Prescriptivists
Mixed metaphor of the month
Philosophical due diligence?
Grammar education: making up for a lost century
Such the electric pair
Terrasyllable Introspectionist Gelded: ungraciously nescient fennel feels nagging remorse
Linguists in Pop Culture
Language and the War Effort
A deep love of dairy products
Grammar n-grams: that example-sentence smell
An internet pilgrim's guide to stranded prepositions
Terminological opportunity
Cross-cultural communication: the cartoon version
The grim economic life of Scar City
Culicover on CGEL
Just a trace of the obligatory rubber
More on FoxP2
Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from insanity
Language, understanding, war, and Babel fish
Eggcorn terminology
Support for Huntington's questions if not his answers
"Study linguistics, not grammar"?
More on Sign Languages
Language, Understanding, and War
A smart person with a stupid idea
Database company to Toyota: Rename that automobile!
Get chicken the way you say you want it
The whole web in ram?
him that pisseth
More on la tchestchion dé razzle
Talking Chimp
X nazi
Bronze sausages?
Yahoo launches 'Soul Search Engine'
Anguish languish
ASL vs. English
Respect
Birdsong and speech: together in the genome?
Clitics on Broadway
Language Log is #1 for stupid ideas
Professionalism
The web through 3-D glasses?
Good for the Jews?
Grammar Gods
The Passivator
What a difference a word makes
Googlephrasing
TCK
The inner necessity of phonetic metalanguage
English teachers as economic migrants
Circolwyrde Wordhord
OFAC Comes to Its Senses
Your Semitic Guess is As Good As Mine
Lemony Snicket barred from speaking
Spanglish
Language Log is a noble gas
No hurr in Nellyville?
Chainik
ChatNannies update
The sexual energy of chatbots
The blood of grammarians
The right X and the right Y
Etymology and Bigotry
Google's latest feature: the Counterexemplifier
The Culture of Polarization, Linguistics Style
Geezer: guiser or gozer?
The Beastly Garden of Wordy Delights
Multiple coordination: the competition is over
When Smart People Get Really Stupid Ideas
The Chatterbox Challenge
The Simputer
At least two linguistic April 1 hoaxes
Fair on the tunded
April Fish
A whiff of evil shit brimstone
Urr
Occidentalism in philology
Just how good is the bible?
Orthographic metathesis?
Alistair and the adjective
Spectacular multiple-coordinate examples
Convenience for the wealthy, virtue for the poor
Bluffhead
A natural boost to the immune system
Chatnannies debunked
Postcard from Peking
The Huntington Challenge
Sunday's Garfield doesn't count
Hunting for multiple-coordinate coordination constructions
In memoriam Larry Trask
The first self-writing weblog
Ten leading results in 20th century linguistics?
Cartoons of the day
Jeniffer afficionados
Saskatoon
The Kamloops Wawa
The perils of degemination
Perl dictionary hacking
Google's print edition
Conservation of (orthographic) gemination
Speech Accent Archive
Bad named entity algorithms at the Gray Lady?
And yet.
Searching for Santa Cruz
Onion entropy
X are from Mars, Y are from Venus
What that wooden stake is really for
Diamond geezer?
That queerest of all the queer things in this world
Sapir-Whorf alert
More on the McGurk Effect
Irritating cliches? Get a life
Baba vs. Dada
Bored of
Big of a deal
Cuteness
Fed up with "fed up"?
It wasn't Lexus, it was Lexis!
"Under God," Hapax Legomenon
Leading Pigeons to the Flag
Copyfight
Soundboards
Why We Don't Understand When the Fat Lady Sings
Verbs and prepositions
untitled
Is 30 the new 42?
DVDs
They can kiss her grits
You can't look up everything
Homesteading the phonetosphere
Language and Politics
Don't say "lexeme" or we'll break your legs
Case and Military Prowess
Them old diacritical blues again
Attila the Gothic dad
Imprecational Categories
Attila, Honoria and nominal inflections
Starbucks and Haidabucks
St@rb*cks claims a whole chunk of the phonetosphere
A picture is worth...
Linguistics in the ecology of academia
National Character Writ Large?
The A-er the B, the C-er the D
Yesterday's technology tomorrow
Putting the X in Y
The backpack of it all
Crouching Tiger, HIdden Dragon, Extra Cat
Neck Reading
No snow
On beyond ghoti
Early Writing Gets Earlier
Multilingual in Urumqi
Problems with pictographs
Making Email Eight-Bit Safe
Panting up the Hill of Significance
Alphabets, somewhat unscrambled
Arabic writing innovations
Nicholas Wade on Gray and Atkinson
Trees of life and language
A New Arabic Alphabet?
Thesauri, SKOS and terminology variation
Dihydrogen Monoxide
Clichés, stereotypes and other obsolete metaphors
It's Usually Nice to be Wanted But...
Why worry of it?
Pot pourri
Beijing, Peking, Peiping and all that
Science Fiction citations for the OED
Windows, Lindows, and Transitivity
Clausal coordination of nonidentical illocutions (parental advisory: nerdy!)
Harm's way: in and out since 1661
Fear not your toes, though they are strong
Overnegation supererogation
Terrorism and the Language of the Devil
A language that no one can learn
Trodding: winning or fading?
Trodding, as in Plodding?
Beijing, Bolshoi
Wild parasitic gap construction escapes
Beizhing
Kanji for European Words
The Decline of the BBC
More junk science from the BBC
More on meiru
Beseeched by questions
Double Right Node Raising in Nature
Don't worry of it
The feet of them
Parasitic gaps in the wild
Clinton and Me
Dialog trajectories
Texting
Dr. Tufts and the Marthambles
Suppose generative syntax was born in Nigeria?
Linguist jokes (1)
Multilingual Instant Messaging in Iraq
Chinese Characters Don't All Come From China
Careless talk spreads viruses
Say No More - Once More
Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
What gets taught; what gets learned
Plum Poison
Gone fishin'
Fine writing at 40% adjective rate
Page rank puzzles
Dennis Miller and Giving Hitt a Break
Jail copy editors for the right reasons
More flowers from the thicket of discourse studies
The Eskimos, Arabs, Somalis, Carrier .. and English
red gorilla bad me unattention
Slut
A Briefe and a Compendious Table
Roots
The Algonquian morpheme auction
General Motors Purchases Algonquian Languages
The metaphysical ashes of conscious awareness
Pillow talk
More on Hitt on language loss
Expression's vast varieties
Corporate sponsorship for language documentation
Foreign Asset Control and Censorship
Anggarrgoon
Koko in the chat room
Monkeys saying things again -- NOT
Clairvoyance? No, just utterance processing
No Future in Canoes?
Science Magazine on Evolution of Language
There's no future in canoeing
sesquidecennium
Cohering into families on the run
More on animal communication
Couch biking
Mr. Spam Man
Ten thousand statistically-average fake band names
A shibboleth of gentility: [h] from William Shakespeare to Henry Higgins
Laura Miller on Nushu at Keywords
Enough said
Is creating a dictionary a federal crime?
Aiding and editing the "enemy"
Rolling and unrolling Indian r's
Language Internal Reanalysis
Kudos, cherries and peas
Gorillas and umbrella women
Do you wish to use Hmoob?
Online fun with ancient writing systems
The mysterious marthambles
Tina Turner to sing in Latin and Sanskrit
Hayek on Hebb
Why are negations so easy to fail to miss?
Offsite backup for world's languages
Avoiding rape and adverbs
Those slurry, sleepy southerners
Defining marriage
Relating to the cougar in your life
It hardly goes without saying
What bacteria want to say
Cat Talk
A gentle reminder
Burbling as a good thing
The world is upside down
Counting poles
On beyond Google?
Common Elitist Usage
Colorless green advocates sleep furiously
The perils of a dry wit
Exclusive: Doonesbury rips off Language Log
Speech Recognition Recognizes Intonation?
UNESCO International Mother Language Day
No Navajo in Arizona Schools
The Latin of The Passion
On not avoiding negatives
Who is to be master?
Too complex to avoid judgment?
The pleasures of linguistic foolishness
The bride wore black
Three is a trend
Desires, beliefs, conversations
A poem about adjectives
Those who take the adjectives from the table
Endangered Languages and Programming Languages
Latin and Science
Adjectives: the Rodney Dangerfield of grammatical categories
Capitolism
Another mad cow word
Hung like a hero
Stupid junk mail envelope blather
An hero ain't nothing but a hypercorrection
Stuck inside of Fowler with the Memphis blues again
An hero at the NYT
Camel words: I'm convinced
46 Somali words for camel
Shoes, torches, mothers
WebSense -- Not!
Darwin on talking parrots
Darwin and Deacon on love and language
Web sense: Language Log is clean
St. Valentine among the pigeons
Grammar critics are, like, annoyed really weird
No free speech for spam rage
Pronouncing "wronger": where's the evidence?
Blogging time
Language Log: banned by Websense
Word counts without lexical facts
Somali words for camel spit
Words for life, the universe, and everything
The Passion
Joann Loviglio gets it right
They can spam
Word up, word down
Igry and ghits
At a loss for lexicons
"sex pro" (not)
SCO, Linux and Freedom
Cotton-top tamarins: on the road to phonology as well as syntax?
An Orthographic Eggcorn?
The Bird Clapper: A New Tool in Semiconductor Fabrication
The Lotus 1-2-3 position
Reanalysis -- and not
The giant logical spider web of grammar
Weblog marketing opportunities
Excitement at the Guardian about language research
"Snowclone" as a chart R&B song
Inflections, genes and western Iran
schild en vriend
HMMs at the fords of Ephraim
Attributional abduction strikes again
Postrel and Pinker push Hayek -- a bit too far
Illiteracy
White House or white house?
Fight fiercely, Democrats
Attributional abduction again
Talking birds vs. singing birds
If, then, and
A note to the reader
Non-English Super Bowl broadcasts
Stupid Dead People Communication Tricks
1421
Concessive if: bleached or pregnant?
Kennedyism of the day
Retrospective: the semantics of harpers.org
Sasha Aikhenvald on Inuit snow words: a clarification
Tariana tales
The memetic phylogeny of "our new * overlords"
In Soviet Russia, snowclones overuse you
igry: serendipity or glemphy?
Stupid fake pet communication tricks
"I, for one, welcome our new * overlords"
Parrot telepathy at the BBC
Google frequency agen (um, agin) (oops, again)
Snowclones are the dark matter of journalism
Non-Bushism of the day
Minding and not minding ambiguity
Eggcorns make us igry
Unbridled eggcorns
Teaching the difference between right and wrong
The Ngadjonji and the PTC
The FCC and the S word
Some people should get a life
19th-century asterisks: at last it can be told
Nor'easter considered fake
Maybe better make that "freaking brilliant"
#ing out @ language Log
When did you first hear this pattern?
Studying child language in the wild
Star-struck coeds
Speaker change in mid sentence
Homing in on honing in on
Shoe in and hone in
Challenge as negation
Cats -> naps, get it?
Skepticism about the SARS--phonology connection
Deny, disprove, refute
Why there should be more scholarly and scientific weblogs
I challenge anyone to refute that this negative is not unnecessary
SARS spread via aspiration
Names and descriptions
Negated, or not
The Dangling Conjunct
Linguist's Search Engine
Derivation and Disparagement
gloof, spooce, gloof twain, spooce, gairk
Space talk: Breathless speech
Another snowclone
The shadow of stylometry
Of limes and racial epithets
Pullum in the Times
Funding terrorism is, like, wrong
C'mere, pedantic
Public virtue and historical subversion
Hi Lo Hi Lo, it's off to formal language theory we go
President Roh and Dr. No
The Canid Play Bow
Northern Exposure
Language in humans and monkeys
Snowclones: lexicographical dating to the second
Pet Communication
Gender: just a quick check
A month late and a bunch of links short
A new linguistics weblog: Semantic Compositions
The curious case of quasiregularity
Phrases for Lazy Writers in Kit Form Are the New Clichés
Linguist's Search Engine teaser
Authorization: Who or what? (Plus: Tracing the origins of The Language Log)
This isn't poetry, this is abuse
"Refute" for "Deny" -- we're on the case
Strange linguistics in this week's Economist
Frozen precipitation in the networking infrastructure
Google sociolinguistics
Attributional abduction
Linguistic Obstacles at Legal Sea Foods
How many knots can you tie?
In, out, up, front, back, minimal, maximal
Something you need to know about me
Why cool remains hot
Incall and outcall
New middle school euphemisms?
Pete Rose and sorry statements of the third kind
Grammarless Riau?
Quantifying alternative translations
The ant, the spider and the bee
Rosanne: woman of mystery
Reports on the LSA meeting
The Legal Treatment of Quantifiers
LTSN Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies
Contemporary cliquonymics?
History of emo
Emo
And the last shall also be first
ADS word of the year is metrosexual
Bletchley Park in the Lateral Interparietal Cortex
A short sharp slap for Dennis Overbye
Transexual, transsexual, and restricted Google searches
Eggcorns everywhere
Brenda Wineapple hates colons
And the bead goes on
Schwarzenegger's State of the State speech: two comments
Suspicion of charges
Public Service Announcement: Wedding Vows are not Wedding Vowels
Secret Annual Cabal - Reminder
Baby signing
Snow in New Yorkish
Psycholinguistics career options
and uh -- then what?
Shoecabbage
New words from Silicon Valley
Ordinary language philosophy of language: not a good idea
Divine ambiguity
Exclusive: God uses "like" as hedge
Lolita's revenge
Dwarves vs. dwarfs
You say Nevada, I say Nevahda
Mispronunciation and autodidacts
"Nucular" solecism traced to 200 B.C.
"Same procedure as every year, James"
The theology of phonology
The politics of pronunciation
o:misoka
Beware, corpus fetishists
Such the surprise
mi etiam unico magis unicus
Sex, ethics, pronouns, and culture (warning: adult situations)
cq
Does "Locklear" really rhyme with "cochlear"?
Mispronunciation -- or prejudice?
How to call Cquila's name
On the Road with Big Brother
Neat stuff at NITLE
More on the computational linguistics of smells
Combating lexicalist prejudice
Extreme bibliophilia
lexical change through consumer fraud
You can't be too careful
Words of 2003
Blah
Bad words getting better?
Advantage: Google
Names of smells
Mad cow words
Cullen Murphy draws the line
Have some word salad with that word soup
Words and other lexical entries
'Twas the night before Christmas
Songs of rationalism and empiricism
Dragging the chain of life in weary lust
Counting new words: is there a lexicography gap?
Twenty thousand new words a year
Amazoodling
Anti-Effle
A tale of two Dons
Another Humboldt heard from
Harmonic rhythm in Turkic
"a select company of curious men"
The mother of all universities named after a linguist
Wars of Words
Universities named after linguists
Let the witty put-downs begin
Effleville: Why is "I have a cold" an "idiom"?
The dread hand of Effle... and boredom
Franks, French, Freedom
Computers singing in Barcelona
Glemphy will not be Word of the Year
Fieldwork Effle
Vintage Effle
Wedding Vowels R Us
Women and discourse markers
Passive voice and bias in Reuter headlines about Israelis and Palestinians
High jinx
Don't read this, it will creep you out
Pickle jinxed blogging?
Pickle jinx
Chicken
Yankees and Bostonians
Were the French the Yankees of Medieval Europe?
Like we used to could
French and Postmodernism
News from the big word book
He used all his French
Life at the speed of blog
We got 'im!
Billy Bass has learned to read TIMIT!
Strange scrambling Alphabets
Unicode
Dangling etiquette
Language relationships: families, grafts, prisons
Missing links
No, appearances of paradox were deceptive
This is not Middle Earth
Eating people is wrong
The apparent deceptiveness of the world
Good glottochronology
Ticks and tocks of glottoclocks
Irresponsible Punditry
Dating Indo-European
Sic sic sic
It's yankees all the way down
Naked languages
Let It Snow Words
Streamlined cognition?
Discourse: tangle or branch?
88 English words from snow
Economist follows Language Log
Verb-modifying "far from" in 18thC pornography
Reichenbach on university and society
Dictionaries on parade
Google-sampling: avoiding pseudo-text in cyberspace
How far from the madding gerund? (100kG)
Lexicographical collages
Far from the madding gerund
Re-naming and Necessity
American names
Beaver vocabulary from another culture
Mis-spelling "grammar"
Hammer, jammer, slammer, stammer, grammar
cool words
Punctuation: the rest of the story
Temples of memory
No foot in mouth
Not a pedant, but a stickler
More on "Samarra"
Clear Thinking Campaign gives "fogged spectacles" award to John Lister
Talkin' metric to decent folk
religion and grammar
The rigors of fieldwork trips
Activities centers in Paradise and Santa Cruz
Postcard from Vegas, 3: regularly-inflected plurals exclusion? I don't think so
Postcard from Vegas, 2: syntactic data collection on the strip
Postcard from Vegas, 1: twilight-zone semantics
Stress and death in Samarra
Where have all the inflections gone?
Twanged
Twang scholar on "the constraints of journalism"
How's your copperosity sagaciating?
Deep in the Hawt of Texath
Talking seals and singing dogs
Like, I care whether semantics are or is?
LA emancipates electronic components
Allegation of "forced fermatic practices"
Six nouns deep or more
Same-sex Mrs. Santa: "the semantics are confusing"
The AI gnomes of Zurich
Lazy mouths vs. lazy minds
Ever heard a Chomsky sentence?
At least he didn't answer
Understanding Complex Nominals
Querkopf Von Klubstick, Grammarian
Parsers that count
Conversational game theory: the cartoon version
blog wins 2003 ADS "word most likely to succeed" award
Memo to self
It has wrinkled feet
Trees spring eternal
Language fu, the cartoon version
Dynamic and epistemic logic: the cartoon version
"Whole Language", the cartoon version
Brain & Language, the cartoon version
like is , like, not really like if you will
Bad Writing and Lord Lytton
It's like, so unfair
Stalinist Linguistics
Phineas Gage gets an iron bar right through the PP
The emperor and the dialect speaker
Right-justified fixed-width raw text, no padding
A shitload more brevity
Edward Sapir and the "formal completeness of language"
Fascist linguistics
Sapir/Whorf: sex (pro) and space (anti)
Mohawk philosophy lessons
"Then down he goes his daily Log to write."
More words and foods from O'Brian
Brevity
Critic: writer::zoologist:elephant
Hic merus est Thyonianus
Corpus fetishism
Words, foods, characters
Any Gate
Zipf and the general theory of wrinkling
Linking "which" in Patrick O'Brian
BOYCOTEZ US?
linguist:language::doctor:disease ?
StoryCorps copyright?
Language AND syntax??
Borges on metadata
Under the radar screen?
More on the 5 exabyte mistake
A Veterans Day story
Adultery notes from all over
Ontologies and arguments
Broken English from Ahnold?
An / Anne /Ian
Research has been made
The weblog of Samuel Pepys
An abortion by any other name...
It depends on what the word is copulation means...
Whitman: the first warblogger
John righteously frums "Dead Right"
Helpful Google
Reuters frenotomy story: Not ignorance but anti-Americanism?
The Meatrix
Mind-reading fatigue
Gall in the family
Cell phone poems
Discourse: branch or tangle?
Correct somebody. Hard and with passion.
"The enemy is language"
For the metrically challenged
Once King, always King
Zettascale Linguistics
What Do You Call Your Boss? How About Your Jailer?
Reuters: early bilingualism causes autism
ICANN steps back to move forward on globalization?
Secret cabals of the linguistic elite
Davies' Corollaries
The rhetoric of cold reading
R!
Another eggcorn
An Early Language Experiment: Failure or Triumph?
On second thought, make that "fuckingly brilliant"
Weblogs were invented by... Plato!
Linguistic punditocracy: the Rockridge Institute
Lady Mondegreen says her peace about egg corns
Improve your love life through the power of pragmatics
Can the world's oldest person die?
Earwitnesses, voiceprints, automatic speaker recognition
How does the devil admonish Kerberos?
Discourse as turbulent flow
Sexing text with the Gender Genie
English, Portuguese, Polish, Farsi, French,...
Teraling goes public
Metonymy notes from all over
Another scientific revolution?
What language are we in, mon ami?
Scalar inversion and the unique cephalopod of negation
Phrases for lazy writers in kit form
Reverse sarcasm?
Terascale Two
Up they turned
The "Terascale Linguistics Initiative"
Calling all parsers
Economist blender blunder
In Search of the Fimpossant
Inveralent jumumble at the Guardian
"What are you, French?"
IAEA yippy yippy yie
Is bad writing really good?
Bleached conditionals
Grammaticality, anaphora, and all that
The plastic fetters of grammar
Better Good Turing (?)
Another informative tautology
To see Italics in a Grain of Sand...
Google psycholinguistics
Language Rights Lose in Nebraska
Fewer physics, fewer politics, fewer italics
Italics and stuff
Founding fathers of the Amerind debate
As If We Needed Further Proof of The Importance of Context in Ambiguity Resolution
Flash: Gopnik inverts a tag!
Emergence of birdsong phonology
The conventions for expressive content words
Political corpus linguistics
"Too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence"
Quoi ce-qu'elle a parlé about?
A parrot after my own heart
Louis Menand's pronouns
Fenimore Cooper, Call Your Office
The awful German New Yorker Language?
Menand's acumen deserts him
The European Council legislates English morphology
Colorless green probability estimates
Can Derrida be "even wrong"?
The case of the tags that didn't invert
Bill Bryson forever: infinite thoughts
Bush's understanding of factive verbs
More on the quotative inversion conjecture
Egg corns: folk etymology, malapropism, mondegreen, ???
A ban on quotative inversion?
Verb semantics and justifying war
In that case, Dottore, you leave me no choice.
Those who are not authorized are not authorized
"All lockers must be emptied of its contents."
English on the anvil
WEB ADDRESSES - IN ANY LANGUAGE?
"AI is brain dead."
NYT story on DARPA MT... doesn't mention DARPA!
The value of evaluation
"It looks like it's his own tongue"