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Crash Blossoms*

Posted: 2010-06-21 – 1 Comment

Update: Dodge County man hit, killed by Jeep while getting his mail identified For this and similar, sometimes baffling, sometimes hilarious crash blossoms, check out Crash Blossoms. *Newspaper headlines written in a telegraphic style which often omits the copula and … [Read more...] about Crash Blossoms*

Catgerories: Funny, Language Stuff Tags: ambiguity, Parsing, syntactic ambiguity

Linguistic Gourmets

Posted: 2010-05-04 – 2 Comments

Dialog snippet I overheard last night in a TV show I didn't even know I still had on my DVR: – Wanna go eat some Chinese? – Cantonese or Mandarin? – It’s Chinese Chinese, what the hell. … [Read more...] about Linguistic Gourmets

Catgerories: Funny Tags: Chinese cuisine, Chinese food

It’s All Right For Y’All

Posted: 2010-01-09 – Leave a Comment

Just think about the problems you could have with English. via ...is a blog … [Read more...] about It’s All Right For Y’All

Catgerories: Funny, Language Stuff Tags: English Language, Language, language humor

Awesome Christmas Special

Posted: 2009-11-28 – 1 Comment

During our time in Japan, we went to Australia to visit relatives once a year around Christmas. Now that we live in the States, it is only about every four years that we manage to go. We usually stay in Burleigh Heads on the Queensland coast and for the past couple of times in … [Read more...] about Awesome Christmas Special

Catgerories: Funny Tags: Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, holiday apartments, holiday special, Queensland

Shirts For Translators

Posted: 2009-11-06 – 1 Comment

Last week Tuesday, on the evening before the ATA conference started, we all sat at the hotel bar when Robin B. showed up with this hilarious #ATA50 shirt. (Note: This is not an official ATA t-shirt.) Since I took the picture freehand with my Blackberry, it is not entirely … [Read more...] about Shirts For Translators

Catgerories: Funny, Miscellaneous Tags: funny shirts, t-shirts

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