clusterflock » linguistics http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 tweet of the day http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/tweet-of-the-day-152.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/tweet-of-the-day-152.html#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:00:48 +0000 Joel Bernstein http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81221

I’d be less likely to think “isn’t it ironic?” than “why the fuck did I buy 10,000 spoons?”

— Matthew Baldwin (@matthewbaldwin) January 18, 2012

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Patrick Feaster studies the culture of early phonography (the recording and reproduction of sound) and blogs at Phonozoic, where I’ve been hanging out for the past hour or so. At the 2011 conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Feaster shared “Phonogram Images on Paper: 1250-1950.” You can listen to his presentation and download slides here. Just scroll down a little ways and you’ll find the links.

(via Excavated Shellac)

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I am also commenting to make you be aware of what a really good experience my wife’s princess enjoyed visiting your blog.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/08/from-the-moderated-comment-spam-5.html/feed 0 It was almost as if there was a secret world of pronouns that existed outside our awareness http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/08/it-was-almost-as-if-there-was-a-secret-world-of-pronouns-that-existed-outside-our-awareness.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/08/it-was-almost-as-if-there-was-a-secret-world-of-pronouns-that-existed-outside-our-awareness.html#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:15:44 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=73355

COOK: What are some of the more unusual “texts” you have applied this technique to?

PENNEBAKER: Some of the more unusual texts have been my own. There is something almost creepy about analyzing your own emails, letters of recommendation, web pages, and natural conversations.

COOK: And what have you found?

PENNEBAKER: One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status. The effects were quite robust and, naturally, I wanted to test this on myself. I always assumed that I was a warm, egalitarian kind of guy who treated people pretty much the same.

I was the same as everyone else. When undergraduates wrote me, their emails were littered with I, me, and my. My response, although quite friendly, was remarkably detached — hardly an I-word graced the page. And then I analyzed my emails to the dean of my college. My emails looked like an I-word salad; his emails back to me were practically I-word free.

One of half a dozen subjects discussed in an interview with James Pennebaker, chair of the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, on his work with the hidden world of pronouns.

(thanks, Andrew)

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Phallus, Phallus, Fucker, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fart, Fart, Farty, Bitch, Bitch, Bitchy, Faggy, Boobie, or, in British English, Fanny or Fanny

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Further thoughts on the evolution of language on safari in Kenya.

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So I guess this is a thing now.

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