Archive for Linguistics in the comics

Comic entropy

It's in the air, apparently — there are two entropy jokes in current webcomics with four-character titles.

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Spelling out whole words

A recent Frazz:

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Quarantine Cats

Some forms of religious observance have increased during our time of social distancing, especially this one:

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"There is no such writing rule"

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Communication formats

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Error types

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Perils of topic modeling

Today's xkcd illustrates why topic modeling can be tricky, for people as well as for machines:

The mouseover title: "As the 'exotic animals in homemade aprons hosting baking shows' YouTube craze reached its peak in March 2020, Andrew Cuomo announced he was replacing the Statue of Liberty with a bronze pangolin in a chef's hat."

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Learning empiricism

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New word of the week

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Cumulative punctuation

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Barstool punctuation

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The Pythagorean catastrophe

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Budgets on Mars

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