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Another use for final rises

June 23, 2017 @ 11:24 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's Frazz:

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Solo

June 12, 2017 @ 5:00 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's SMBC:

Mouseover title: "Dream big, guys."

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Slightly unfair, but funny

June 2, 2017 @ 4:54 am· Filed by under Computational linguistics, Linguistics in the comics

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "The top search for every state is PORN, except Florida, where it's SEX PORN."

And the lesson doesn't just apply to maps, of course…

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Greeter skillz

May 26, 2017 @ 11:15 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's Zits:

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Yay us

May 26, 2017 @ 7:06 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Desmond Fishman is running for parliament, and has discovered (one of) the secrets of political rhetoric:

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Homonyms

May 23, 2017 @ 6:13 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Yesterday's Dumbing of Age:


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Schrödinger's pundit

May 21, 2017 @ 7:55 pm· Filed by under Language and politics, Linguistics in the comics

Today's SMBC:

Mouseover title: "On second thought, let's just leave them in the box."

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Harrisian transformation of the week

May 15, 2017 @ 8:08 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's SMBC:

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Groups

May 14, 2017 @ 6:29 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's Pearls Before Swine — "Who's on first" updated:


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Lunch order

May 8, 2017 @ 6:54 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "GO FOR LUNCH, REPEAT, GO FOR LUNCH."

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English orthography is fake news

April 17, 2017 @ 6:22 pm· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's Non Sequitur:

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Hell of slow

April 4, 2017 @ 7:34 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

From today's Scary Go Round:

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Sociolinguistically aware smartphone

March 11, 2017 @ 10:15 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Today's xkcd, with a "cot-caught merger switch":

Rumored in the XKCD Phone 6: a "Northern Cities Shift slider".

 

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