Came across an interesting post over at Language Log about the prepositions in/on/at. The basic principles are simple: in relates to a 3-dimensional container on relates to a 2-dimensional surface at relates to a 1-dimensional location Time and space as portrayed by Flickr user: Charles Van L. The experiential key here is that a day [...]

I can’t get enough of these inane furry creatures. Today (and yeah, I’m a little late on the game, but so what) I discovered LOLcat translation services: http://speaklolcat.com and http://txt2lol.com. Both sites are decent, but both suffer from computer-generated-translationitis. I guess language–even made-up language–is still too complex for machines to pick up on the subtle [...]

Yar har har, me hearties. It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day today, a holiday endorsed by scurvy Dave Barry himself (so it must be legit!). Talking like a salty sea dog is quite simple, thanks to Robert Newton. He be the scurvy dog what gave Long John Silver a West Country accent (which, [...]

After finding PBS’s web site for Do You Speak American? I intended to have a long post on this topic, but I’ve been browsing through the material for days and have still found no end to it. It looks as if there was a documentary broadcast on TV back in 2005, and the producers organized [...]

I can has grammars??? I admit it. I’m addicted to lolcats. I love the damn things, stupid as they are. What I didn’t realize is how much information is already out on the tubenet on the grammar of lolcats. A little background: Lolcats are a fairly recent internet meme involving the captioning of cute or [...]