• What is ‘Answering Machine Talk’? “Answering machine talk represents a form of mediated conversation in which messages are recorded to facilitate communication between participants.“ • What of the resources? “The talk which occurs in such messages draws upon the pool of available resources for telephone-based communication…” • What of the constraints? “[telephone-based communication] … […]
Tag: Linguistics
LOLspeak for Linguistics Lasses & Lads
Lotsa linguistics lasses and lads like or love LOLspeak. In Australia, two of them did a talk about it, which you can read about or, less literarily, look at and listen to on video: [vimeo]33318759[/vimeo] “I can haz speech play: The construction of language and identity in LOLspeak,” Lauren Gawne [pictured here], Jill Vaughan, Canberra […]
Cold Comfort: for linguists
Norbert Hirschhorn [pictured here] composed this poem, which will provide cold comfort, especially to the linguistics community: COLD COMFORT (‘Is a cliché merely a trite, overused figure of speech? I argue that every cliché in the book has withstood the test of time, new ones invented even as we speak. A cliché expresses in fewest words […]
Grammar can be fun
Grammar Can Be Fun, a book written and drawn by Munro Leaf in 1934, is a treat for linguistics scholars and budding linguistics scholars. It is a recommended inappropriate book for kids. Here’s an image of one of its pages. Note that the title is correct. It specifies that grammar can be fun, but does […]