Archive for January, 2015

Reverse Debates

January 2, 2015 @ 3:12 pm· Filed by under Humor

From the last year's Foundational Questions Institute conference, a String Theory supporter (Raphael Bousso) is asked to argue against String Theory on behalf of Loop Quantum Gravity, while one of the founders of Loop Quantum Gravity theory (Carlo Rovelli) takes the String Theory side, in opposition to his own point of view:

This works out well, making me wonder about analogous opposite-day debates in linguistics and allied areas.

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Chinese-French dictionary

January 1, 2015 @ 10:21 pm· Filed by under Dictionaries, Language and the media

The obligatory screenshot:

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Creative overnegation

January 1, 2015 @ 10:15 am· Filed by under Linguistics in the comics, Misnegation, Semantics

Today's Zits:

…plus the obligatory link to the Misnegation Archive.

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A language of condensed words expressing condensed ideas

January 1, 2015 @ 9:44 am· Filed by under Language and culture

John Elfreth Watkins Jr.'s predictions about the then-upcoming 20th century ("What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years", The Ladies' Home Journal, December 1900) have been widely discussed in recent years on the web. You can read a transcribed version (with the predictions oddly re-ordered) here.

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