Things that may only be funny to a linguist

[tahnan]

...or perhaps any other pedant. A side note to a discussion about the Parents' Television Council and their attempt to get the FCC to reinstate its ban on a certain familiar word.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000391.html

Warning: contains language. (And is one of a number of posts in sequence, though it can be read independently; feel free to start a few posts back.)

Actually, the whole blog is well worth reading, because it contains a lot of very nice discussion of linguistics that's wholly approachable to the lay reader. (Though the Parents' Television Council would probably object to my use of the word "lay".)

Comments

[navrins]

It must be hard to discuss language without using language.

Hard to discuss most things without using language, actually. I mean, some things can be "discussed" with a two-by-four, but not academically. And it hurts more than grammar really should.