• I'm on LanguageLog again - Mark Liberman quoted an e-mail I wrote him regarding the Texas Longhorns salute.  Briefly put, a journalist claimed that the gesture was also an obscene sign in ASL ... which wasn't actually true.  But yaaaaaaaay for LanguageLog!
• The grad school applications continue - or rather, the associated drama continues.  Still no ( Read more... )

[The English version of all this will be in the next post.]

• Me revoilà sur LanguageLog - Mark Liberman a cité un courriel que je lui ai écrit sur le geste que les amateurs des Longhorns (de l'Université de Texas) utilisent pout indiquer leur support.  Bref, un journaliste a dit que ce geste était aussi un signe obscène en ASL ... ce qui n'est pas ( Read more... )

Just submitted my first grad-school app. AAAAAGH!

Viens juste d'envoyer la première de mes demandes de candidature au doctorat. AAAAGH!

C'est officiel: j'ai trouvé trois personnes respectables qui diront aux programmes de doctorat que moi aussi je suis respectable et même un peu intelligente et intéressante.

::grand soupir soulagé::

Maintenant, le "personal statement" ... blechh.

It's official: I've found three respectable people who will tell Ph.D. programs that I too am ( Read more... )

-On "Strunk and White's toxic little book of crap" (a direct quote and my new favorite phrase in the world) and self-appointed guardians of grammaticality: a back-post from LanguageLog. (En anglais seulement)

-Quote of the day/citation du jour:

"All people will become, are in the process of becoming, aged, disabled, and dead."
(C'est-à-dire, " ( Read more... )

... pas assez aujourd'hui.

(I love you, my Québécoises, but not enough today.)

Update:

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That is to say, *good* stories about what I've been up to since Harvard. Installment 1 (since it's the freshest in my memory): Gallaudet ( Read more... )