Archive for Linguistics in the comics
Schrödinger's pundit
Today's SMBC:
Mouseover title: "On second thought, let's just leave them in the box."
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Sociolinguistically aware smartphone
Today's xkcd, with a "cot-caught merger switch":
Rumored in the XKCD Phone 6: a "Northern Cities Shift slider".
Two tons of creamed corn
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…
Poetry and reality
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.
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Homophonous phrase of the week
Wondermark for 1/24/2017, In which a Run is made:
At the Bar of Discarded Books
Katherine Rosman, "Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again." NYT 2/11/2017:
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