Archiv der Kategorie: English

Quantifier Scope Stories (1)

Publiziert am 11. Dezember 2010 von Kilian Evang

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 →

Veröffentlicht unter Englisch, English, Sprache | 1 Kommentar

LaTeX, PSTricks, pdfTeX and Kile

Publiziert am 17. Oktober 2010 von Kilian Evang

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 →

Veröffentlicht unter English, Technik | 5 Kommentare

Like/Gefällt mir/Мне нравится

Publiziert am 8. Oktober 2010 von Kilian Evang

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 →

Veröffentlicht unter Deutsch, English, Internet, Sprache | 6 Kommentare

My Favorite Language Resources on the Web

Publiziert am 30. September 2010 von Kilian Evang

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 →

Veröffentlicht unter English, Internet, Sprache, Sprachen | 2 Kommentare

Why I Love Wikipedia (#587)

Publiziert am 20. März 2010 von Kilian Evang

“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 →

Veröffentlicht unter English, Internet, Musik, Zitate | 3 Kommentare

Fragmente (6)

Publiziert am 8. März 2010 von Kilian Evang

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

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Word of the Day: clabrevication

Publiziert am 25. Februar 2010 von Kilian Evang

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

Publiziert am 22. Februar 2010 von Kilian Evang

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 →

Veröffentlicht unter Englisch, English, Welt | 13 Kommentare

The Indefinite Determiner ‘this’

Publiziert am 3. Februar 2010 von Kilian Evang

So this random guy walks up to my table, sits down and starts telling a story out of the blue. I have no idea what he is talking about or who he is referring to when he begins, “So this … Weiterlesen →

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The Plan

Publiziert am 31. Januar 2010 von Kilian Evang

A: Well, Harold, I’m not sure whether I understand your plan completely, but unless I’m very much mistaken, it involves my death, right? B: Yes, that is correct. A: Well, I don’t want that. B: You don’t… oh, yeah. Sure. … Weiterlesen →

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