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Tags Suck

I feel a little schadenfreude about the potential demise of Delicious. Not for popularizing social bookmarking, I like that a lot. What I resent them for is popularizing tags. Tags since infest services like Flickr, many blogs and Mendeley. If … Weiterlesen

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Quantifier Scope Stories (1)

In the King of the Hill episode Leanne’s Saga, Luanne says: Did you know there’s a spot on your foot that’s connected to every part of your whole body? Is it just that she didn’t get reflexology quite right, or … Weiterlesen

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LaTeX, PSTricks, pdfTeX and Kile

Many people writing scientific documents in TeX know the problem: on one hand, you want to use the more modern pdfTeX rather than LaTeX, for example because of the hyperref package or because you want to include pdf, png or … Weiterlesen

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Like/Gefällt mir/Мне нравится

In a recent blog post, Geoffrey K. Pullum writes: Twitter merely coined a verb meaning “send a message via Twitter”, but they didn’t specify what linguists call its subcategorization possibilities. They added the verb to the dictionary, but they didn’t … Weiterlesen

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My Favorite Language Resources on the Web

LEO is the online dictionary for native speakers of German. It has English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Spanish and Russian. I use it for the first three. LEO is very basic, it just gives you a list of all translations … Weiterlesen

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Why I Love Wikipedia (#587)

“Disgustipated” is track 69 on most pressings in North America (causing most CD players upon reaching the end of track 9 to advance through tracks 10-68, which contain no data, at a rate of about 2 per second until track … Weiterlesen

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Fragmente (6)

He kicked the cupboard angrily. “Take this for not containing a knife!”

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Word of the Day: clabrevication

A blend of clarification and abbreviation. Describes the process of rewriting part of a text such that it becomes both more understandable and shorter, possibly even without losing information. Clabrevication is widely considered the supreme discipline of copy editing, although … Weiterlesen

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Nazi Compounds

Phrase # of Google hits (at the time of entering the list) grammar nazi 188,000 music nazi 122,000 love nazi 85,600 food nazi 75,000 movie nazi 50,300 porn nazi 47,100 health nazi 25,100 republican nazi 19,000 code nazi 13,000 moral … Weiterlesen

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