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2 giorni fa · And my title for this posting (“In the can”) offers another pun on cylindrical container can; from NOAD: phrase in the can: informal on tape or film and ready to be broadcast or released: all went well, the film was in the can. Now for some details. Toilet time. The eliminatory noun can has at least two characteristics of linguistic interest.
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5 giorni fa · It’s from 1900. This is one of the joys of dating: everything is older than you think it is. The linguist Arnold Zwicky has coined the term “the recency illusion” to refer to the misbegotten assumption that anything that strikes you as new in language is a recent innovation, when, in fact, it’s not. So: just linguist, not distinguished ...
4 giorni fa · Originally U.S. 1. A tense or dramatic ending to an episode of a series of films, television programmes, books, etc., which leaves the audience in suspense and anxious to discover what will happen next; (also) a work or series which regularly uses or is characterized by such endings. Originally with reference to radio and film serials which ...
3 giorni fa · We conclude that CAHG material culture and specialized lexicon reflect a long evolutionary history in Central Africa. Dmitry quoted this bit: For example, the word ngbídí (see Supplementary Table 13 for variants) denotes a musical bow with two strings that is played exclusively by female CAHGs in the exact same manner by both eastern (Efe ...
5 giorni fa · On the cartoonist, from Wikipedia: Willy Murphy (October 2, 1936 – March 2, 1976) was an American underground cartoonist. Murphy’s humor focused on hippies and the counterculture. His signature character was Arnold Peck the Human Wreck, “a mid-30s beanpole with wry observations about his own life and the community around him.”.
