Monthly Archives: October 2010

Even Cathy Berberian knows

Cathy Berberian’s “Stripsody” (Perfectly SFW! Strip as in “comic strip!”) came up in a tipsy, 3 a.m.-ish conversation in Boston but I failed to make everyone watch it so now you’re all going to suffer for that omission. And by … Continue reading

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Just usually wrong

Language Log gleefully reported on the thing where Lisa Murkowski spouted the kind of self-serving, Orientalizing nonsense about a language nobody in the audience was likely to know that one hears from time to time in the rhetoric of politics … Continue reading

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