Communication is hard
Something in email a couple of weeks ago indirectly reminded me of an incident from long ago: I used to...
Archive for Language
Boggle poetry
Just posted a new entry in my words-and-wordplay blog that I thought some of y'all might enjoy: Boggle poetry. Embed...
Video remixes
I still haven't figured out how best to connect my word blog with this blog. For now, I'll keep linking...
Guest blogger on my word-blog
Over at my words-and-wordplay blog, Shmuel has joined me as a guest blogger. In his first entry, he discusses the...
Die Zeitflieger
Can you tell I don't speak German? I started out wanting to say "time flies," and picked German more or...
Computer-player gender?
When you're playing an abstract computer game against one or more computerized opponents (chess, say, or checkers, or Dicewar--any game...
Online Encore
I still haven't figured out the right way to balance my language blog with my main blog. Whenever I post...
The Rosetta Project
Amazingly cool: the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project has put together something called the Rosetta disk. (Official page.) It's three...
The uses of a V
I'm playing Scrabulous again with Mary Anne. Good words so far: she led with TILDE, I countered with PORCINI, she...
Philosophy of Scrabble
At some point I'll post more about Facebook. But for now, having fallen into two Scrabulous games almost immediately upon...
Hey, all you gayelles and gayettes
Tonight I learned a new word: "gayelle." It's trying to be the new word for "lesbian"; it's a feminine form...
Name parser
Got home late last night, should've gone to bed, but instead decided to write some code. The following will probably...