→ “Repo! The Genetic Opera” - There are just so many things wrong with this: She Who Must Not Be Named will be starring in a movie version of "Repo! The Genetic Opera", "set in 2056, when the human race is almost destroyed and survival depends on organ transplants." I might've actually been interested in seeing it if she weren't in it... (Who am I kidding? How could I not see a rock opera with that premise?) For additional info, see the website of the Broadway production. :/: 3 Comments &187;
As you may or may not be aware, I’m taking a class this summer to learn ASL (it’s a lot of fun). In order to fulfill the “Deaf culture” requirement, this Sunday I want to a Deaf church.
Inter-community Church of God is a non-denominational Protestant church, which serves hearing people, Deaf people, and their […]
On the way home from the gym today, I saw both a woman wearing a sombrero, and a man wearing a pith helmet.
That is all.
→ Should we simplify spelling? - The Beeb pitted a spelling reform advocate against a linguist who is against such change. Spelling reform for English based on links between sounds and letters has to relate to a single accent... This disadvantages once again children with non-standard accents, say those who would naturally spell "bath" as "barf". It also cuts accents of English off from each other; a Londoner would not be able to read Geordie, a person from Sydney a letter from someone in Ottawa. The cost of any change would be astronomical. [While I like this quote, the real reason I excerpted it here is because it has an example of gapping in it :)] :/: No Comments »
→ Linguistics in a Primary School - Linguist Kristin Denham (Western Washington University) talks about bringing linguistics into a primary school setting. :/: No Comments »
→ “I’m not sure how I feel about prescriptivism when I’m the victim” - Dinosaur Comics, one of my favorite webcomics, takes a (hilarious) look at prescriptivism and precision of language. :/: 4 Comments &187;
→ On Serious Literature - SciFi legend Ursula Le Guin responds to Slate's implication that genre fiction is a "decaying corpse". A great (very) short story. :/: 2 Comments &187;
I got the following IM today:
“I traded the permanent parking spot for the bigger bedroom”
My first thought was “why would you get rid of the bigger bedroom?”
Apparently the natural reading of this sentence is that the speaker originally had the parking spot and then got the bigger bedroom, but I can read it either way. […]
I’ve posted some photos of my trip with Brad to San Diego and the Quail Botanical Gardens. Some of them actually came out really neat!
A sampling: