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as Saki once put it, ‘a little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation’,
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
as the linguist John McWhorter pithily put it, today we ‘talk with our fingers’.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
malapropisms and spoonerisms
Ann Handley • Everybody Writes
Linguists call this the ‘double illusion’: humans think they are speaking computer, computers think they are speaking human, and neither is very satisfied.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
They believe that if we make a change to the dictionary, then we have made a change to the language, and if we make a change to the language, then we also make a change to the culture around that language.
Kory Stamper • Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
It’s also pretty likely that, even if linguists come up with a more precise name for the phenomenon, it will be forever referred to in academic literature and conferences as “known in the wider population as the ‘crispy R.’” All from some TikToks.
Dan Nosowitz • The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter
But it is logically centralized in the sense of there is one thing, which is the English language, and if you start devi... See more
Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything (Ep. 45)
These are the two types of language: descriptive and generative. One type describes; the other generates.