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POPSWords, words, words Time’s Karen Tumulty, who spotted racist goblins in the recent McCain ad criticizing Obama for seeking advice from Fannie Mae corruptocrat Franklin Raines. A parade of congressional witch hunters for Obama also detects the specter of George Wallace behind every policy bush. Democratic New York Gov. David Paterson says conservative criticism of Obama’s community organizing days is code for “black.” Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks complained to the New York Observer: “They are trying to throw out these codes.” In the same piece, Democratic Rep. Yvette Clark divined segregationist intent in Palin’s references to Joe Six-Pack and hockey moms. “It leaves a lot of people out.” And Democratic Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid echoed Time’s Tumulty on the McCain camp’s Obama/Raines broadsides: “The only connection that people could bring up about Raines and Barack Obama is that they both are African-American, other than that there is nothing.”
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POPSthe etymology and usage of "dude" "Dude" doesn't (necessarily) mean you're stupid, lazy, a surfer, a stoner, or a slacker. So what does it mean? This paper, by University of Pittsburg linguistics professor Scott Kiesling, looks at the etymology and usage of "dude".
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POPSRock art He seems Indiana Jones :) but with an academic angle...
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POPSThe Value of Sensitive Points Ms Brummund elucidates the problems of working routinely with Sensitive Points, and why they have been abandoned in standard Uranian Astrology practice today
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POPSThe Science of Mysticism Well worth reading the article. Another example of how the popularised emphasis on 'intelligence' and AI is well off the mark when it comes to assessing the biological nature of the human organism: feelings (cortical representations and re-representations) are the basis of human experience including reason and language. The hundred years of suggestion in this area from James onwards are now being supplemented by modern neurobiological research. Such a key word as representation offers a potentially rich bridge between neuroscience and philosophy, linguistics and the humanities.
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POPSWhy a Semantic Web Will Be Smarter, Faster & All-Around Better In order to take it to the next level, and move from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0—the information in documents will have to be turned into data that machines can read and evaluate autonomously. Only then will computers be able to take over tasks we now have to do ourselves, such as find the nearest restaurant, book the best flight, or buy the cheapest video game.
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POPS"Manifiestos" lingüístics i poder Ferran Saéz dóna el context ideològic i polític correcte al manifest espanyol: canvis en les correlacions de poder(polític, però també ideològic i simbòlic) provoquen reaccions. Ho exemplifica des de començaments del segle XX. I apunta que la conclusió que s'extrau del "manifiesto" és segregacionista i, en el darrer esglaó, d'apartheid previ a l'extermini lingüístic
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POPSUniversal Translator May Be Possible That's a good idea, but what if this alien's perception of the world is different than humans? Even if not entirely alien, one can point at a round red iron object and mean "ball", "red", "iron" or even protons and electrons...
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POPSThe Euphemism Generator In third year linguistics I wrote a report on swearing and euphemisms. I got a B+ for my efforts. It was really a fun paper to write I even used George Carlen as a source. It’s no everyday you see Carlen and Freud cited in the same report. What I found interesting was how words that are euphemisms become vulgar and then we need need euphemisms. Take the word ‘Arse’ for an example, this was considered to be vulgar and the euphemism ‘Ass’ was used instead. Today the roles have reversed, ‘Ass’ is seen as the vulgar and many people will use ‘Arse’ as a euphemism.
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POPSTheory of First Amendment Freedom of Speech Northwestern University Law Review Fall 1988/Winter, 1989 Symposium: Law and Social Theory *54 FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION: A THEORY OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM OF SPEECH Lawrence B. Solum
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POPSThe word "canadian": a new way to insult black people. That leaves one problem. What do we say to a black guy from Winnipeg. Can't we ask him now if he is "canadian"? For example, go pick up Bob at the airport. How will I recognize him? He is a tall kind of bl..., kind of can.... guy. Ah! never mind. He will take a cab. And the beer ad for Molson's Canadian, I am canadian", takes a whole new meaning now. Say good-bye to the american market.
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POPSSaving dying languages in Nepal But campaigners for indigenous rights went to western Nepal and found a mother and daughter speaking it, and an isolated woman in a different district. They were brought together, and the woman was able to converse in Kusunda for the first time since 1940, when she was 10 years old. Linguistics Professor Madhav Prasad Pokharel said she was "amazingly fluent". Although he has been inspired by the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, he admits that reviving these tiny Nepalese languages is unlikely. But he argues fervently that they can and should be preserved and taught.
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