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Signifier vs. Signified

May 9, 2008 @ 6:12 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

From stereotypist (4/23/2008).

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Inverse eye dialect from Doonesbury?

May 9, 2008 @ 5:58 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics, Orthography

It's a class-conscious respelling that's not used "to indicate that the speaker is uneducated or using colloquial, dialectal, or nonstandard speech".

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Nice

May 8, 2008 @ 6:46 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

Explain. Extra credit: compare to Hannibal Lecter's famous line "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."

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The Manc perspective

May 2, 2008 @ 6:09 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

This morning's Get Fuzzy:

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The new biologism answers a rhetorical question

April 17, 2008 @ 5:52 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics, The language of science

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Never closer

April 15, 2008 @ 2:49 pm· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics, Uncategorized

One form of American Exceptionalism — resistance to texting — is definitely gone:

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Invoking childhood

April 9, 2008 @ 6:39 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics, Orthography

From The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom), a warning about using spellcheckers when summoning Elder Gods…

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