Linguistic tattoos · Mr Verb

Visual rhetorical reverberations, or linguistics tattoos to you and me

Ever considered a linguistics tattoo? Probably not! But Team Verb showed how me how amazingly committed some people are to their academic disciplines and the legs (you have to look at the slide show  slide 10! ) to which they will go to display that commitment. Running teachers’ courses I’ve seen some interesting tattoos in my time. After reading… Continue reading Visual rhetorical reverberations, or linguistics tattoos to you and me

'Word of the year' · Mr Verb · Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

From ‘Bushlips’ to ‘static kill’. OK?

On Sunday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that linguists from all over the world will be descending on Pittsburgh later this week to discuss, amongst other things, (naturally) Pittsburghese, endangered languages, and linguistic map-making. They’ll also be deciding on the word of the year.Previous favourites have been: ‘google’, the word of the decade last year; ‘plutoed’,… Continue reading From ‘Bushlips’ to ‘static kill’. OK?