Monday, January 08, 2007

Must read linguistics humor

Back in March, as I see now, HeiDeas reposted her brilliant, and I do not use that adjective loosely here, first post from a year ago: stuff from the Simpons that exemplifies linguistic principles or plays with language structure in particularly interesting ways. It's must read material.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi there, mr verb! greetings to the whole verb family --

thanks for the link! your readership has caused a distinct uptick in traffic to Heideas. :)

thought i'd note, though, that the post you link to isn't a *re*post of the original simpsons language jokes, but a whole separate collection, amassed over the intervening year between the posts. The original post with its non-intersecting set of jokes is here, in case people are also interested in it:

Beyond Embiggens and Cromulent

:) hh

Mr. Verb said...

ARG! How could I miss that!?!?!?!? Sorry.

Yeah, I'm sure our readership has moved you from the mere 259 hits a day over the all-important 260 threshold, where real blogging income kicks in. Besides, we've got that oh-so-sexy Upper Midwestern demographic going our way. Yah hey.