Language Log

Today's Doonesbury explores the problem of over-ambitious translation:

Today's Non Sequitur:

Today's Sally Forth:

Stefano Bertolo points us to Rob Cottingham's latest Noise To Signal:

Today's Dilbert suggests a way for engineers to deal with product planners and marketing types, which many potential sources in technical fields will recognize as a tempting strategy for dealing with the press:

Yesterday's Dinosaur Comics explores the far reaches of verbal morphosyntax in English:

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The most recent PartiallyClips:

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Today's Get Fuzzy illustrates the perils of morphological decomposition:

From the cartoon Ham and Wonder (by "lapsed linguist" Joe), an adventure in garden pathing, with a bit of explanation:

Today's Non Sequitur:

We've been reprinting or linking to Rob Balder's PartiallyClips comics for more than six years. (I believe that this was our first link, and this was our second one.) Now Rob has handed the strip over to Tim Crist, who started right out with a lexicographical theme:

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A Bizarro leap forward in animal abilities:

A sequence from Pat Brady and Don Wimmer's Rose Is Rose, January 4 and 5:

(Hat tip to JC Dill.)