Language Log

From today's Scenes From A Multiverse:

The latest xkcd, at http://xkcd.com/1483/:

Yesterday's Zits:

Yesterday's SMBC:

Today's Zits:

…plus the obligatory link to the Misnegation Archive.

Girls With Slingshots for 12/23/2014:

Frazz continues to explore vocabulary and its measurement:

The latest Frazz:

Geoff Pullum wrote ("Adverbing, verbing, and adjectiving", 11/5/2014):

… for the most part what you get in the go all ____ on you [frame] is adjective-headed phrases …

While I hardly ever disagree with Geoff, my intuition said otherwise in this case, so I checked.

"I don't want to go all language nerd on you," says the female character in today's xkcd cartoon, "but I just legit adverbed 'legit', verbed 'adverb', and adjectived 'language nerd'." Is she correct?

Today's PhD Comics:

It's been a while since we featured a Partially Clips comic — here's the most recent one:

From the current New Yorker:

allrecipes.com has "more than 50" grits recipes (I count 64 on display), and there are lots more on other sites, so (costume aside) this is entirely region-appropriate. It's still linguistically naive, since the recipes have mostly-transparent phrasal names like "Raspberry Kielbasa over Cheese Grits"; but hey, it's a cartoon, and I guess the point is to mock those southerners with all their different approaches to grits, using the "Eskimo words for snow" trope as a vehicle.