chronic.linguist

July 15, 2006

  • Amazing how the Internet can bring people together.
  • Some cool machine learning research: Ripley the Robot (explains how “words and the rules for using them represent just the tip of a linguistic iceberg”)
  • Colbert explains Joe Lieberman’s decision to run as an independent if he loses the Democratic primary for his Senate seat
  • The cartoonists of Zits point out an obstacle to our generation’s capacity to make a difference…
  • Speaking of said cartoonists, Jim Borgman weighs in on the flag-burning debate
  • Hackett’s not running this time, but is Jean “Schmidt Happens” nevertheless in trouble for November?
  • (Added July 18) Anna Quindlen says it like it is.

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  1. The answer to that last question is no.

    More on the poll’s flaws here.

    Comment by Eric Kephas — July 16, 2006 @ 9:43 pm

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