Ok, so this might be the coolest thing ever. Ever ever. EVER. Even cooler than savethewords.org. Because they’re MY words. I made a wordle of my blog and it is so cool! Check it out here.
I realize this title doesn’t make sense, but unlike me, you have not recently watched a TED talk by Erin McKean (you can correct that problem here). Because I like dictionaries, however, I did watch it. And it was cool. Very cool. She suggests the idea that dictionaries are limited by paper and manpower. In [...]
So this post is actually from my notes last week, but hey! now I have internet, so I figured I’d post the notes late rather than never. It’s from the day we talked about windows and books as technology. The idea really clicked once we talked about the difference between literature and literary studies. (Because [...]
So this week I didn’t have any Internet. Not only was it uncomfortable to be sitting in my room, wondering what to do, but I also found that a) my inbox was overflowing and b) I spent a lot more time talking to people. Which got me thinking about the idea of language as a [...]
J. C. R. Licklider’s (3 initials? Really?) article on the man-computer, while somewhat outdated in terms of the modern technology that has now been created, posits some interesting questions about how man and machine might work together. As a linguist, the most interesting of these hypotheses, to me, was the idea that computers could recognize [...]
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