Archive for Linguistics in the comics

The meaning of filled pauses?

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"Interesting questions are raised by present speech patterns"

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"Hip new slang"

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Language development

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Best invented folk etymology of 2021?

Wondermark for 11/25/2021 — deriving "rappers", from "wrappers" and their "candy shanties" on the Hersey Chocolate assembly line:

Mouseover title: "People will claim lots of things to impress some random moron."

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Channel(ing) surfing

Dan Piraro, "Changing Channels", Bizarro Blog 12/12/2021:

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Feral Economist

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Truthularity

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Ways To Be More Interesting in Conversation

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

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

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Virus-talk

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German lexicographic richness

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