Archive for the 'Linguistics' Category

Dreamtime

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

I had a couple dreams this morning:

“We’re so cutting edge, who needs the law??”

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Looking at a job posting for a random business online, I noticed that it says:
“Looking For A Young Web/Graphic Designer”
Um, unless said company has fewer than 20 employees… isn’t that illegal? I’m no lawyer, but as far as I know, age is one of the protected statuses against which businesses can’t discriminate. I mean, would [...]

Vocabulary Verbs

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Something I find interesting: English verbs that take specific objects.
Verbs such as “eat” use types of objects, such as “edible things/foodstuffs”. But I’m talking about verbs that traditionally use only one or two different objects, even though other objects would make sense logically. Some example verbs that I can think of, and their ‘default’ objects:

contemplate [...]

Funny Phrases

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Here is a list of funny-sounding phrases, suitable for band names, titles of artwork, or other labels — unique terms you won’t find anywhere else on the Internet.* It might be updated periodically. Let me know if you use any of these, so that I can cross them off the list:

Robots, Zombies, and Unicorns.