Language Log
Prescriptivists take note: Language Log is a fun blog about language, specializing in debunking myths and making fun of those who misuse it.
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Prescriptivists take note: Language Log is a fun blog about language, specializing in debunking myths and making fun of those who misuse it.
I clicked on the read more link thinking there'd be one more snarky paragraph only to find a freaking essay. Wow!
loads of really great linguists and computational linguists from penn and elsewhere (but mostly, it seems, penn) contribute to this. the followup to a times article on PARC technology (sent to me by the flower-selling father of a reader of this blog) caught my eye, as it involves an extensive blog debate between fernando pereira, chair of CS at penn and a big shot in NLP, and matt hurst, a data mining guy.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004191.html#more