Day Two. May 20, 2008 ( Read more... )

At last the final exams are over and the year complete.  I thought I would be doing more fun things than I have been. For instance, I thought I might plays sims for a long while, but as it turns out, my desktop computer has developed a semi-fatal illness and keeps giving me error messages and refuses to load any of my games.  So I have to begin the ( Read more... )

So, is it really geeky that I read the Language Log every day and love it? Probably.  But at least I know I am in the right major!  I enjoy being able to get excited about derivational affixes, the future of the gender neutral 3rd person pronoun in English, and how to parse a structurally ambiguous sentence ( Read more... )

I just discovered this very cool article about a device that could translate a person's highly-directed thoughts into speech ( Read more... )