Language Log has been getting me excited about the documentary The Linguists for quite some time now, but the DVD costs $300, and it didn’t seem to air on any local PBS stations. Luckily, the movie is finally available (for a short time) online at babelgum.com. I strongly encourage people to watch this movie, as [...]
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Language Log posted about the Typealyzer last month, and only today (while waiting for some video to digitize) did I get around to playing with it. The Typealyzer scans a blog and then decides what kind of Myers-Briggs personality type the blog represents. I’m allegedly an ENFP, so I thought it would be neat to [...]
In first grade, the “Mr. Men” books were all the rage. The short length and taxonomic/essentialist nature of the series and characters appealed to me very greatly. And though many of the books taught me terms for vices that I didn’t know (fussy, mischievous, nosey), the only book I could not understand was Mr. Uppity. [...]
