My friend Adam, who just signed up for an lj account (dheghom) after months of needling him into getting a blog, used the phrase "the distinctive, ostensibly circumflex-like diacritic" in his first post. This is a typically Adam-sounding thing for him to say. In fact, it's completely unattested in Google ( Read more... )

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

I saw this site mentioned by laughingwoman yesterday, and it is absolutely brilliant. Most of the things listed there I had to learn to like (or at least have a passing familiarity with) when I went to college. (I'll admit to liking sushi, ( Read more... )

ripresa told me the other day that I should be updating more often. Actually, it wasn't the other day, it was, what, two or three weeks ago? Oops. ^_^; But I don't think posting e.g. "Spent all day doing research in the library" over and over again makes for interesting reading. So if I don't post anything for a while, well, you can assume that's what ( Read more... )

I really wish I had remembered to turn off the "email all comments" option before making this post. Now I have over 70 new emails in my inbox. Yeargh.

Flickeur is fascinating.

The latest post on Language Log quotes an article from the New Yorker about Jewish settlers in the West Bank, then says:

And these young Hebrew-speaking men...had taken the trouble to learn enough Arabic to howl their filth in their victims' native language.
I don't think that's exactly what's going on here. From what I understand, modern Hebrew ( Read more... )

"I have to say, Livejournal is rather like Usenet in that people can spout off whatever crap they want." -- mlc

Ok, I think I'm going to make a little more of an effort to update this thing semi-regularly now :\ I'm sorta half-debating doing something like True Porn Clerk Stories, only talking about my life as a grad student/TA instead, except that I don't really wanna deal with getting fired/expelled/shot by a disgruntled student/etc ( Read more... )

hmm....hmmmm.........what should I say.............