Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.

See also: Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den.

And also: Linguistic example sentences.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

wordie

juv3nal at MetaFilter pointed out this cool thing in this thread. I had posted this short list of cool words a little while before.

Thanks juv3nal! (He also has a pretty cool site, here.)

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Misprisions

"A misprision appears to be a particularly creative kind of mistake, not infrequently tenurable, an inspired "misreading" through which brilliant error redeems the inferior dullness of mere creative genius."

(Google cached version of page so you all don't have to contend with popups)

Monday, January 08, 2007