Archive for Linguistics in the comics

IRL reverse dictionary

… or maybe I should say "associative memory"? Or whatever we should call the emerging modes of interaction with Meta Ray-Bans? Anyhow, here's a recently re-published Girls With Slingshots comic (original in 2008):

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Environmental effects on language change

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Another meme collision

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The meaning of bracket symbols

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Mathematical synchronicity in the comics

(…with a bit of philosophy and psychiatry in the mix…)

Dinosaur Comics for 6/17/2024:

The same day's xkcd — "Pascal's Wager Triangle":

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Menu worms

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xkcd: Fluid Speech

Today's xkcd is (or should be)  the illustration for a week or two in every introductory course on the sound side of language:

Mouseover text: "Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay."

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Bloom filters

Today's xkcd:

According to Wikipedia,

A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970, that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not – in other words, a query returns either "possibly in set" or "definitely not in set". […]

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Inerrancy and prescriptivism

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Software testing day

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New worlds, words, and letters

A recent strip from Dinosaur Comics:

Mouseover title: "stop, you fool! you're building a world far too quickly and far too awesome! no narrative will ever live up to it!!"

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Schwa

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More AI humor

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