Friday, February 6, 2015

Language change humor. Because Friday.

This great panel cartoon from xkcd.com on the winners/losers of language change got a shout-out earlier today on the Twitter feed of the Linguistic Society of America -- @LingSocAm, if you want to follow. I'm re-sharing here partly in the spirit of end-of-week levity, but mostly because I thought it so well captured the idea we have been discussing that certain words/phrases will just win out over time. And that is okay.


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  1. Anne CurzanFebruary 15, 2015 at 3:40 PM

    I just love this cartoon. Here's the recent article from The Boston Globe that has the quote from Patricia Cukor-Avila:

    http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/01/25/linguists-are-like-get-used/ruUQoV0XUTLDjx72JojnBI/story.html

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