Despite thinking what I’m about to do is a go0fy waste of time and almost* entirely useless, I am, indeed, about to do it. Here are three wordclouds from my term papers for the three classes I took this semester, along with their working titles.  (The titles they ended up with were less interesting/less accurate, […]

Yesterday I asked: ‘Exit’, first syllable: someone you used to date,or what chickens make? — brett royal (@brettroyal) May 13, 2013 The responses I got were split 50-50, if you ignore the handful of people that have bizarre pronunciations that don’t fall nicely into either category. Since I had a pretty small number of people […]

In 1981, the short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver was published.  It’s awesome, but I think at this point everyone knows that.  (Less well-known fact: Carver’s poetry is pretty good, too…)  Anyhow, the beginning of that phrase is used as a kind of set-frame/conventionalization you see around […]

So I’m probably never going to post one of my papers here, because I like to maintain the illusion that..  you know, I can form thoughts and stuff.  Anyhow, I just finished a little paper about case assignment and agreement in Hungarian, and I thought it’d be fun to make a little word cloud for […]

So what’s going on here? This is fine: I’m not sure if this is okay. This is not fine: *I’m sure if this is okay. And these are both fine: I’m sure this is okay. I’m not sure this is okay. Replacing if with whether gets  you the same results: I’m not sure whether this is okay. […]