Alex Isenstadt, "Trump warns supporters about 'really angry' Democrats", Politico 6/4/2018: President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon marked 500 days in office by grimly warning supporters that Democrats are motivated to turn out for the midterm elections — and that they’re “really, really angry.” During a national conference call with grassroots supporters to commemorate the […]
Currently circulating on Facebook and on Chinese social media are seemingly impenetrable sentences with the same character repeated numerous times. When you first look at them, your eyes glaze over and you can't make any sense of them. But if you slow down and think about such sentences, you usually can figure them out without […]
The boy in the photos below is Alexander Aurelius Wang. He is one of our youngest fans in Shenzhen. He doesn't like writing characters from dictation (tīngxiě 听写 / 聽寫):
[An introduction and guide to my series of posts "Corpora and the Second Amendment" is available here. The corpus data that is discussed can be downloaded here. That link will take you to a shared folder in Dropbox. Important: Use the "Download" button at the top right of the screen.] Before I get down to […]
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Just received this from our fan club in Shenzhen, China.
We have an ardent group of fans in Shenzhen, a large metropolitan area in the Pearl River Delta, just north of Hong Kong.
An introduction and guide to my series of posts "Corpora and the Second Amendment" is available here. The corpus data that is discussed can be downloaded here. That link will take you to a shared folder in Dropbox. Important: Use the "Download" button at the top right of the screen. New URL for COFEA and […]
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Following on the victory of Karthik Nemmani in the Scripps National Spelling Bee — the 11th straight Indian-American to win the competition — the New York Times has an interview with Sam Rega, whose new documentary Breaking the Bee explores how kids of South Asian ancestry have come to dominate the Bee in recent years. I wrote […]
Among many other applications, this hypothesis (from the most recent xkcd) may finally offer a quantitative explanation for the generally poor quality of language-related articles in Science and Nature: Mouseover title: "When comparing hypotheses with Bayesian methods, the similar 'clickbayes factor' can account for some harder-to-quantify priors."
Here's an amusing Japanglish song by a Malaysian Chinese hip hop recording artist who is called Namewee:
This is one of the important stories that I haven't had time to blog about over the past couple of months. Let's start with some of the more tasteful jokes, nicely presented using the rhetorical device of praeteritio — Constance Grady, "How an author trademarking the word “cocky” turned the romance novel industry inside out", […]