Language Log: Stupid FBI threat scam email
I recently heard of another friend-of-a-friend case in which people were taken in by one of the false email help-I'm-stranded scams, and actually sent money overseas in what they thought was a rescue...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The New York Post goes verbless
On Headsup: The Blog, FEV (Fred Vultee) notes a remarkable confluence of nouns (and one adjective) on the front page of Sunday's New York Post: Comments by Vultee: Nothing on here really qualifies as...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Science bible stories, take 27
Yesterday I wrote about a recent scientific paper that looks for evidence of the cultural effects of American urbanization in word counts from the Google ngram viewer. The paper was Patricia...
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