Also, here’s the recording of Crystal at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas from last November talking about the developments in English reflected in the third edition. The talk is addressed to the general public, and as such contains very little of what he hasn’t said before. Among things I haven’t heard him say before are: 1) the rate at which English spreads throughout the world is falling; 2) he thinks "slash" is a new coordinating conjunction, and he credits the Internet with introducing it into the spoken language (not sure I am convinced); 3) the number of words thought to be first used by Shakespeare is falling as more texts from the period are digitized and analyzed.
Also, here’s the recording of Crystal at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas from last November talking about the developments in English reflected in the third edition. The talk is addressed to the general public, and as such contains very little of what he hasn’t said before. Among things I haven’t heard him say before are: 1) the rate at which English spreads throughout the world is falling; 2) he thinks "slash" is a new coordinating conjunction, and he credits the Internet with introducing it into the spoken language (not sure I am convinced); 3) the number of words thought to be first used by Shakespeare is falling as more texts from the period are digitized and analyzed.
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A hilarious piece of web comedy in the style of Monty Python. Can only be viewed on the author's web page, because privacy settings. But so worth it.…
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A very impressive demo of real-time noise suppression software for Linux called NoiseTorch: - audio demo on the Linux for Everyone podcast…
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Twitter is having fun:
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