So. I'm going to be running a game for the first time in fifteen years. I first said, "hey, I can do that." having brainstormed on a setting with my sister and having come up with a campaign model that seemed fairly simple and contained ( Read more... )

I happened to check my feed set that includes Language Log today (i don't check it often), and I happened to go back far enough to find lots of interesting things.

I really like the line: "Strunk and White's brainless little pamphlet of 19th-century grammar nonsense".

Not that that offered any new insight.

There was also a graphviz-produced* ( Read more... )

I noticed I used "positive either" today, similar to my "positive anymore"s:

"I forget how it came up."
Me: "Yeah, I forget either."

I don't know that I'd ever noticed that one before. I'm trying to remember if i use any other NPIs like that ( Read more... )

I got offered the contract at Powerset! This is the same job sarkat's had for a while. I guess no one ever told kellan what company she was contracting for, when it came up before, because when I told him i got it this morning, he said ( Read more... )

contracted from hedgeroseStep 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random ( Read more... )

My collection of Jaye-quotes from the year. I'm probably going to put these on one of my websites at some point, but I haven't decided how to format them yet, so here for now.

( The first published installment of Things My Teacher Told Me )

"Today, linguists estimate that there may be as much as 58 percent cognates for a sample of 872 modern ASL and FSL words (Lane, 1987:55). Modern British Sign Language and ASL, on the other hand, are almost mutually incomprehensible ( Read more... )

In Nicaragua a Language is Born. NSL rocks! It's cool to see it in the news. The article is shallow, but still, the topic rocks.

Nancy and I finally got around to lending each other the books we've been meaning to. I lent her The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain, and she lent me Oliver Sacks' Seeing Voices. Yay! A passing remark of Sacks', I forget where anymore, was the first thing that really excited me about Sign, many years ago, and now I' ( Read more... )

More Life Listing:

I saw Dr. Ladefoged. Sometimes called the most important phonetician in the world. He presented phonetic arguments against UG, and argued for langauge being a self-organizing social system. Which works for me.

Oh, and the "Current Music" came on totally randomly, I swear!