Brilliant
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "Platonic solids for my real friends and real solids for my platonic friends!"
Archive for Linguistics in the comics
The Universal Apocrypha of Linguistics and Verbal Ordnance
The first panel from today's Girl Genius refers to Traubhünd's Universal Apocrypha of Linguistics and Verbal Ordnance:
…better known these days as the Oxford English Dictionary…
Separating the modern usses from the cave usses
Dinosaur Comics for 2/3/2016:
Mouseover title: "oh wow a comic in which ryan argues the technology that gave us the word "bonertastic" is really important, WHAT A SURPRISE"
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Chinese scout
Listen to what the Chinese scout in this video says at :43. My first impression was that it sounds like he is speaking Cantonese, not Mandarin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIdJCzCpOg
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Nicholas Wade's DNA decoded
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "Researchers just found the gene responsible for mistakenly thinking we've found the gene for specific things. It's the region between the start and the end of every chromosome, plus a few segments in our mitochondria."
For background, see "The hunt for the Hat Gene", 11/15/2009.
Linguistics Club
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "If that's too easy, you could try joining Tautology Club, which meets on the date of the Tautology Club meeting."
Take A Hint
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "2060: The gregarious superintelligent AI, happily talking its way out of a box, is fast becoming a relic of the past. Today's quantum hyper-beings are too busy with their internal multiverse sims to even notice that they're in boxes at all!".
To be read along with this?
