Dialect map
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover text: "There's one person in Missouri who says "carbo bev" who the entire rest of the country HATES." alt="Carbonated Beverage Language Map"
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Archive for Linguistics in the comics
The correct amount of bad
The last two panels of today's Dumbing of Age:
Walky has a good point about "too bad". But the last panel is also a good example of emphatic even — see
"What does 'even' even mean?", 2/8/2011
"Can they even prove that?", 5/24/2011
"Even again", 10/21/2011
"Annals of even", 10/4/2013
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Style? Stance? What?
Yesterday's SMBC:
Mouse-over title: "The emeritus will take 4 hours telling you about a trip to Africa that happened 40 years ago."
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An xkcd for Geoff Nunberg
Mouseover text: "I'm the proud parent of an honor student, and the person driving me is proud, too!"
From Geoffrey Nunberg, "The pragmatics of deferred reference" (in L. Horn and G. Ward, eds., The Handbook of Pragmatics, Blackwell, 2003):
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All too true
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "Cauchy-Lorentz: "Something alarmingly mathematical is happening, and you should probably pause to Google my name and check what field I originally worked in.""