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Z & G tumble into a thesaurus
Yesterday’s Zippy strip has Zippy and Griffy falling into a delirium of word attraction, savoring a smorgasbord of colorful synonyms, plundering the Rogetian treasures: (#1) 592 is the compendium...
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Queer linguistics blogging
E-mail yesterday (4/13) to the Linguistic Society of America’s COZIL (the Committee on LGBTQ+ [Z] Issues in Linguistics) mailing list from Archie Crowley: June and Pride Month are just around the...
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My address, a rant
LISTEN UP! A friend writes to ask me for my address — in this case, my snail mail address, since he has my e-mail address (and has just used it), but I get requests all the time (sent to me by various...
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There’s now a Page on this blog about AZBlog postings that comment explicitly on the potential multivalence of all sorts of symbols: these symbols are “just stuff”, being able to be deployed for a...
View ArticlePostings on male friendship
(and on bro-buddies, so there will be some quoted plain talk about man-on-man sex — warning for the wary) From the arena of masculinity studies, some postings on this blog on male friendship (and on...
View ArticleIn search of a paper of mine
I’m trying to get a copy of A.M. Zwicky & J.M. Sadock. 1984. A reply to Martin on ambiguity. Journal of Semantics 3: 249-256. DOI: 10.1093/Jos/ that I can not only read, but also also save on this...
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A reply to Martin on ambiguity
This paper from 40 years ago: A.M. Zwicky & J.M. Sadock. 1984. A reply to Martin on ambiguity. Journal of Semantics 3: 249-256. DOI: 10.1093/Jos/ As I wrote yesterday (in my posting “In search of a...
View ArticleThe evil that AI chatbots can do
First thing. When AI chatbots first became available for private use, there was a fashion among my friends and colleagues in the academic world to ask a bot to compose their scholarly biography. The...
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Greek-Letter variables and the Sanskrit ruki class
A Linguistic Inquiry squib of mine from 1970 (LingI 1.4.549-55) that for complex reasons hasn’t been digitally available on this site; thanks to the Indo-Europeanist Michael L. Weiss (Professor of...
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A homo thesaurus
An alert yesterday from Ernesto Cuba about the Homosaurus project: an LGBT thesaurus, with a portmanteau name homosaurus = homo(sexual) + thesaurus — thesaurus from Ancient Greek, meaning ‘treasure,...
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