Mr. Verb

OK, this is a pretty weird piece. It starts with this title + comment: It's time to challenge the notion that there is only one way t...

In case you missed the biggest language or communication news of the week, here it is: Scientists Believe Hockey Players May Com...

Another example of using 'linguistics' in a particular negative context, with a whiff of something ominous about 'linguistics...

Yes, it's still happening. People won't stop talking about how Sarah Palin talks. And as far as I can see, they can't stop getti...

As a linguist who works on Menominee, this stopped me in my tracks:  " It may be semantics, but linguistics can be a team event ."...

The New York Times this morning has a piece on genetic evidence that the Americas were populated by a set of three migrations from Asia, ...

The article is here , but this one's all about the headline.

The press seems to endlessly repeat stuff people believe about language. The Google news feed for 'linguistics' just handed over a b...

I first read earlier this week about new work on the word order of the earliest human speech (first in a footnote to a post on the Log on an...

With that title, does the post even need content? This is all over a bunch of tech blogs, but I haven't seen it among the linguabloggers...

Imagine a journalistic piece about a linguist that starts by describing them as "that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense abou...

I guess even the National Review makes a plausible statement occasionally, even if it's vacuous. They are running a review of Thomas S...

It's sometimes humorous and often alarming to see how information about language and linguistics gets presented in the media — a familia...

In Madison, Wisconsin, they apparently play shuffleboard. Check out this story. (For more photos of Woody & Anne's, see here .) I ...

Deborah Solomon's "Questions for [famous name here]" piece in the NYT Sunday Magazine is something I always look forward to: I...

Who said that? And who were they talking about? Was it someone who sat at the elbows of Chomsky and Halle during the writing of Sound Patter...

Actual quote from a WBBH news story, here : Top Democrats say they want to get started on linguistics right after the election. Is this som...

Well, I wasn't under consideration for McCain's VP, despite what some contributors may have claimed., but I was otherwise occupied f...

I finally read Richard Klin's interview with Noam Chomsky in January Magazine , available here . It's about the man and politics, no...

This just in from a reader, with the scan labeled 'lexical category confusion'. I think the character here is 'Billy', judgi...