Language & Other Matters
Very Traditional Japanese Costume
www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2004/06/02/1086058899547.html
Check out some of the other national costumes at the Miss Universe 2004 competition. Tasteful

REDUCED ENGLISH: www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/eprime.htm
(related to which - The "Verbs Bad" Manifesto: www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards/gallery/2001/winners2001/tedholm.htm

For further Language stuff, also see itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/ the Language Log (e.g.

Gene Buckley emailed to point out the widespread adoption of the eggcorn inclimate weather, which has 11,000 whG (web hits on Google), or 2,567 whG/bp (web hits on Google per billion pages). The original phrase inclement weather has 173,000 whG or about 40,372 whG/bp, so the original is only about 16 times commoner than the eggcorn. This is a genuine folk-etymology-in-progress, not a simple misspelling, since the morphologically incoherent "incliment weather" and "inclemate weather" have only 719 whG and 73 whG respectively.).

I like the whG (web hits on Google) & whG/bp (web hits on Google per billion pages) measurements, too.

See WhG/gp and other problems of quantification at
itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000974.html

Also try www.mindbluff.com/ For visual as well as other recreation.
[permalink][comment] - posted by Mez @ 6/02/2004 07:27:00 pm