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Ways To Be More Interesting in Conversation

November 21, 2021 @ 7:56 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Or not… Today's Dinosaur Comics:


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Data, information, knowledge, insight, wisdom, and Conspiracy Theory

November 13, 2021 @ 5:02 pm· Filed by under Language and art, Language and philosophy, Language play, Linguistics in the comics, Logic, Memes

The relationships among these different types of knowing has always been something that intrigued me.  Now it's all spelled out diagrammatically:

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Painbows

November 6, 2021 @ 7:24 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

A recent xkcd:


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Virus-talk

November 1, 2021 @ 8:33 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Friday's xkcd:

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German lexicographic richness

October 11, 2021 @ 10:14 pm· Filed by under Lexicon and lexicography, Linguistics in the comics

A Mad Magazine cartoon by Peter Kuper:

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How AI Reporting Works

October 10, 2021 @ 8:39 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Yesterday's SMBC is somewhat unfair, but still funny. The punchline:

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Dinosaur wine tasting

September 16, 2021 @ 12:13 pm· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

The current Dinosaur Comics:

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Noise and bias

September 4, 2021 @ 7:59 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's SMBC:

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Dinosaur intonation

August 28, 2021 @ 1:18 pm· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's Dinosaur Comic:


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Morphological logic (gates)

August 19, 2021 @ 6:13 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

A recent xkcd:

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Trash talk

July 28, 2021 @ 8:07 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Tank McNamara's current plot series starts from Connor McGregor's recent injury:



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Cultural evolution

July 23, 2021 @ 5:46 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Recently on SMBC:

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The Genius Gene

July 18, 2021 @ 1:59 pm· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Panel 3 of today's SMBC displays a caricature of Nicholas Wade:

(That's not really supposed to represent Mr. Wade, as far as I know — but for why you might think so, see the list of past posts below…)

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