Friday, August 05, 2011

V Bar: Watering hole for syntacticians

Some of our readers no doubt know that there's a watering hole for syntacticians in Terminal 5 of London Heathrow Airport. A reader has sent along this image of it ...


Makes me thirsty, but I'm not sure if Merge translates here into shaken versus stirred.

A big tip of the bowler, or more modern headgear, to PTR.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'll raise a glass to that.

Mr. Verb said...

Ha ha ha ha. Beautiful.

Anonymous said...

The "My speech gets slurred at Spell-out"
- brandy
- dash of orange juice

Shake ingrediants with ice, pour into chilled tumbler. Add an null olive which is prevented from interacting by a universal constraint. Garnish with grapefruit peel.

Mr. Verb said...

Is it time for an invitation for the best linguist drink recipe? Don't tempt me, I might just do it.

Anonymous said...

You really really should. There's also http://specgram.com/CLX.3/10.mixologists.cocktails.html to consider.

Monica said...

I think there's a V-Bar in Tucson, too. Or was it Colorado Springs? Some place to the west of here...

Adam Ussishkin said...

Tucson has J-Bar (http://www.janos.com/) but no V-Bar that I know of...though I'd love to be proven wrong!

Lane said...

There are various X Bars too:

http://www.xbardenver.com/

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