Archive for December, 2006

Not that it was any question…

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Not that it was any question, but Xena (as played by Lucy Lawless) could *totally* take Hercules (as played by Kevin Sorbo) in a fight.
Then, in SciFi land, Lawless wins again: Number Three would wipe the floor with Dylan Hunt.
Finally, we have this, from The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horrors X (via Danny):
With evil thwarted […]

A joke, some news, and a few pics

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Well, it’s not really a joke. And probably only the linguists and mathematicians in the house will get it. But:
There was just an ad on TV for the Jeep Commander. The announcer said “see Commander and the rest of the Jeep line of vehicles” or somesuch. I parsed it as “C-Commander”.
In […]

Pied piping, booger anaphora, and headless relatives, oh my

Friday, December 15th, 2006

As linguists deal with language on a daily basis (well, to be fair, I should hope that most people use language daily, but you know what I mean), they were bound to come up with some pretty crazy terms to describe things. I’ve started collecting some of my favorites on the wiki. Linguists, […]




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