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The New York Times > Technology > Friendster, Love and Money
Why aren't my friends cool and cutting edge anymore?
"Just as troubling, a younger, flashier rival called MySpace has eclipsed Friendster."
MySpace? Who the hell uses that?
The New York Times > Technology > Friendster, Love and Money
Language Log: hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hoo
That should be 32, for those who are counting and that's the number of words you can now use in a google search (up from 8). Too bad Google's estimate of the number of results is inaccurate for searches that return thousands of hits...
Language Log: hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray hooray!
Language Log: Phonetic gaydar again
"Experimental phonetics has become easy!" in a MA thesis titled "That's the gayest thing I've ever heard! The phonetic and phonological content of the perceptions of gay- and straight-sounding speech in English."
Language Log: Phonetic gaydar again
Economist.com | Linguistics
I want to get a PhD in Linguistics and a little programming experience so I can make computers write sentences like “When some sandbank over a superslots hibernates, a directness toward a progressive jackpot earns frequent flier miles.”
Economist.com | Linguistics
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