Online Encore
I still haven't figured out the right way to balance my language blog with my main blog. Whenever I post...
Archive for Language
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...
Obama is in
As you probably all know by now, Barack Obama announced his candidacy for President today. I just watched the announcement...
Greek suffix meets Lingua Terra
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make...
Pirates
Arr, me hearties! Today was, of course, Talk Like a Pirate Day, as I'm sure you all knew. One of...
Patriotic fiction
I am not a patriot in the usual sense of the term. Humanity and the world are generally more important...
Neology feed
In case anyone's interested but missed it, Irilyth has kindly set up a LiveJournal feed for my Neology wordblog. At...
Neology
I've started a new mini-blog: Neology, in which I post words I encounter that I don't know the meanings of,...