Archive for category: Linguistics

How Curtis Yarvin talks    (2020.02.09)

Mencius uh um OK Moldbug you know

Teaching foreign languages via YouTubé    (2019.05.13)

Dōgen and Ruben Adery are two distinctive but effective practitioners

Worst intellectual accents    (2019.01.07)

Public intellectuals have to be able to speak English. But the more they’re revered, the worse their accents, diction, and prosody are. (Nº 1 with a bullet: ŽIŽEK!)

“Make any object non-binary”    (2018.11.13)

“Inspired by the poster who suggested calling margaritas ‘Margaritx’ ”

Apparent first use of “eldergay”    (2018.09.03)

In the Times last June

‘CP Caps and Spelling’    (2018.06.08)

I assembled a list of over a hundred neologisms that could be added to CP Caps and Spelling

Canadian English accent (from nowhere)    (2018.04.01)

HAL 9000’s accent was (neutral) Canadian

“Fash” bashed for Word of the Year    (2018.01.11)

The American Dialect Society failed to even nominate fash for Political Word of the Year. (Antifa was in there)

Positive deaf writers    (2018.01.02)

At Naked Heart 2016, the overriding message from deaf writers was positivity. You’d think I’d know that by now