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a great example what our imminent mylifebits future enables.
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with video cameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90K hours of home video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.” Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.
Scientists have carbon-dated the Voynich manuscript, a puzzling and beautiful document covered in botanical and scientific drawings. Named for the Polish-American bookseller who acquired it in 1912, its undeciphered text and purported 15th-16th century origins have long been a matter of controversy. So just how old is it? According to the University of Arizona, the sample was dated to between 1404 and 1438, making it older than previously thought; it predates the Gutenberg bible, printed in 1453.
Kinda anticlimactic
New analysis of the Voynich manuscript reveals its secrets. It’s a mostly plagiarized guide to women’s health.
working theory: Many Americans are used to getting real emails that look like this; something correctly punctuated, spelled, and grammaticized would look obviously fake.
Quite a bit is known about how English was spoken back when Shakespeare wrote his plays but productions of his plays using the original pronunciation (OP) are quite rare. audiences will hear word play and rhymes that “haven’t worked for several 100 years (love/prove, eyes/qualities, etc.) magically restored, as Bottom, Puck and company wind the language clock back to 1595.”
bookmarked not for the man bites dog element, but the curious fact that the newspaper is mixing english and tagalong in the same sentence.
engrish comes to german. in homeopathic doses, one imagines.
thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late
i wish i had known this word earlier.
These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature “creative” spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as “Teabonics.”
People who point out their puns are like comedians who explain their jokes: they both think you’re too stupid to get it. The only good thing about the phrase “pun intended” is that it saves you time when you want to say “hello, I’m going to be at the bag convention this weekend, please be sure to stop by and say ‘hi.’ I’ll be at the douche exhibit.” Here’s the deal: when you point out your puns, you’re making a value judgement on me, the reader.
my bro hit my and an dit made me type 199(5) instead of 199(0) nmow i cant sign up!!
what is wrong with these kids? you have to be seriously retarded to spell that badly.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 