Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Friday, June 27, 2008

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Wikipedia says this sentence is grammatically correct for all sentences consisting of at least one "buffalo" (using Chompskyan theories of grammar).

Bonus linguistics post: Yuen Ren Chao's poem "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den"

(Thanks lonelysandwich!)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

An interesting article in Scientific American on the evolution of the English language, and a nice contrast to this one in Wired.