Language Log

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 …

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "Contains 100% of your recommended daily allowance!"

See "Modification as social anxiety", 5/16/2004.

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "It me, your father."

In yesterday's Dilbert , Dogbert has a typically clever/evil idea:

Today's SMBC starts with this panel:

An unusually large number of people have suggested that I should post about the latest SMBC comic. Since I'm on the other side of the world, with slow and erratic internet, I'll just post the link, and note that (implied pornography aside) it would be good phonetics assignment to replace Zach's letter strings with IPA symbols.

Today's PHD Comics::

Tim Leonard points out that today's Questionable Content has a piece of dialogue in which their (in "their ship"), though referring to a male individual, could not felicitously be exchanged for his: