Archive for Language
And since I'm apparently being Writing Curmudgeon Guy lately, I think it's time for another installment of "words easily confused."...
Time for another installment. (To see previous editions, search my journal for the phrase "words easily" (no quotes)—that'll show the...
Feeling a little better than yesterday, but still not up to going to work. Yesterday I didn't do nearly enough...
Geoff's Gender Guesser attempts to determine whether a given name is more likely a male name or a female name,...
Time for another installment. (To see previous editions, search my journal for the phrase "words easily" (no quotes)—that'll show the...
I know it's only been a few weeks since the last list, but shortly after I posted the last one...
I've been saving these up 'til there were enough of them to post: As Heather noted in a comment to...
Someone's mention of Gormenghast reminded me that I didn't especially like Titus Groan (the first book) but that it did...
A friend of mine used to do something interesting when running roleplaying games: he'd use real-world historical names for famous...
I've seen two different journalers use the term potboiler correctly this morning, but I've also talked with a lot of...
Half a dozen times in the last week, I've seen a reference to someone racking their brains. Each time, I've...
Jean pointed to The Gender Genie, where you enter some text and it applies the Koppel-Argamon algorithm (or perhaps that...