Language Log

Today's xkcd:

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

Today's Non Sequitur:

From today's Scary Go Round:

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

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

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "Sure, you could just ask, but this also takes care of the host gift thing."

Unless of course they have Google Home. In which case apparently the thing to do is to ask about the communist coup that Obama is planning…

Today's SMBC:

Mouseover title: "New rule: Anyone referring to X as the poetry of Y must have actually ever read a poem."

Not strictly relevant to the Neil deGrasse Tyson discussion, since linguistics is a science and all. But still.

Wondermark for 1/24/2017, In which a Run is made:

Girls With Slingshots for 9/18/2014:

Katherine Rosman, "Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again." NYT 2/11/2017:

Over at Existential Comics, WV Quine discovers the indeterminacy of cross-generational translation:

The current SMBC:

From John Allison's Scary Go Round for 12/23/2016:

Fritz Ruehr sent a cartoon that he found this morning on reddit:

The spirit is willing, though the grammar is weak …