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Mouth Function!
This is Doug and Adam’s last week of school, so they’ve been bringing home folders stuffed with papers they never got around to bringing home before, and things that only come home at the … more →
Literal-Minded
musings:laundry
blastedgoat wrote 2 weeks ago: is it called that because you used to have to hang your laundry over your “lawn” to dry? … more →
Mouth Function!
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Neal wrote 1 month ago: This is Doug and Adam’s last week of school, so they’ve been bringing home folders stuff … more →
Sinking Your iPod
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Neal wrote 4 months ago: Doug wanted me to sync his iPod yesterday so he could get some of the Monty Python sketches on ther … more →
AMATEUR LINGUISTICS
John Brezinsky wrote 8 months ago: LANGUAGE HAT–Andrey Zaliznyak, a Russian historical linguist, gave a talk last month “On … more →
Runation
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Neal wrote 11 months ago: Doug’s friend introduced him to an online game called Runescape. Doug informed me that the nam … more →
Check These Out
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Neal wrote 1 year ago: I’ve accumulated a number of links to linguistics posts that I’ve been meaning to recomm … more →
Even More Contamination
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Neal wrote 1 year ago: I told Doug the joke that ends with the punchline, “There’s gotta be a pony in here some … more →
What the Deuce?
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Jason Adams wrote 1 year ago: While watching the 2000 version of Henry James’ The Golden Bowl, I heard the once-common phras … more →
Turtle Stench and Propeller Rashes
Neal wrote 2 years ago: “You know what I wish, Dad?” Doug asked one day. “I wish I had the power to revers … more →
LSA 2007: Book Report
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Neal wrote 2 years ago: When I wandered through the book exhibit last week, I saw Heidi Harley’s book English Words; … more →
Once is Happenchance, Twice is Cool Incidence
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Neal wrote 3 years ago: While I was watching a morning news show a few weeks ago, the newscaster asked his interview subject … more →
Till Morning is Night
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Neal wrote 4 years ago: In my last post, I mentioned the substitution of we travel so far for we traverse afar in the Christ … more →
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