More from the annals of selective attention and confirmation bias, now in the journal Psychological Science. The umbrella phenomenon is the Frequency Illusion: if your attention is drawn to some ...
Announcements now out with the program for the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing — that is, the 35th meeting of the Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing — at UCSC...
Mike Pope on Facebook, following up on my posting of the 25th “Lilo & Stitch”, with a question about the naming of the characters in the movie: (#1) Stitch and Lilo MP: Do you think the anima...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/25/revisiting-27-lilo-stitch-bouba-and-kiki/
Announced yesterday on Language Log, in a piece by Ben Zimmer entitled: “Frequency illusion” in the OED. It begins: The latest batch of updates to the online edition of the Oxford English Dic...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/20/a-small-moment-of-lexicographic-fame/
Accidentally encountered on the net yesterday: this t-shirt triumph of supercilious peeving: (#1) It’s also available on signs, mugs, plaques, and goodness knows what else. Dare I hope for unde...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/05/im-silently-labeling-you-an-asshole/
Today’s (5/27-28/17) Daily Post (SF mid-peninsula) front-page headline: Caltrain to cut 1,000 trees* And what my mind took me to immediately was Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire Ass...
From a King Features Comics Kingdom posting on the 3rd, “Ask a Cartoonist: Words to Live By” (by tea), three cartoons on words in comics: a Dustin on adolescent sniggering over potential doub...
In a sense, a re-play of an earlier posting, “spunk” of 3/16/11, which was about spunk ‘spirit, mettle, courage, pluck’ vs. spunk ‘semen, seminal fluid’. Now spunk appeared as a morn...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/27/morning-spunk-same-word-different-word/
From Andras Kornai, a link on my Facebook timeline, tagged as “for Mr. Alexander Adams”: a Schwa Fire piece, “The Name on the Cup: Brewing the Perfect Coffeenym” by Greg Uyeno. About choo...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/07/coffeenyms-and-reservation-names/
A Leigh Rubin Rubes cartoon, via Facebook: Brain surgery to remove the notes of the offending tune, now kept in a jar, like captured fireflies. An earlier Rubin on this blog, #1 here. On Rubin, f...