And the award for cleverest title for a linguistic relativity article goes to...
Bluer Rather Than Pinker
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The commenters over at Liberman's post Apico-labials in English all clearly prefer the spelling syncing , but I find it just weird look... -
(image from Slate.com ) I tend to avoid Slate.com these days because, frankly, I typically find myself scoffing at some idiot article they&... -
Matt Damon's latest hit movie Elysium has a few linguistic oddities worth pointing out. The film takes place in a dystopian future set i...
3 comments:
I have to say that I rather like the phrase "armchair linguist".
I think its kind of funny that an article about the relationship between language and thought contains the word "untergiversating" (the untergiversating Steven Pinker) which doesn't get any hits on google (yet) and gave me, as a non-native speaker, quite a hard time (got it now)
yeah, Michael, I had to look that one up too, haha.
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