The visual linguistics of a comic book page
Inside Science recently wrote about the study by UCSD’s Neil Cohn, Navigating Comics, which looks at the underlying structure of the comics language: ...
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Where Will All the Valedictorians Go?
Last year a great deal of attention was paid to the fact that all four of the College's valedictorians were bound for banking and consulting, as ...
The Last Templar
Portrait of the diplomat: Antonio d’Oliveira Pinto da FrançaAntonio d’Oliveira Pinto da França died in Lisbon on June 4. He was 77.Da França is best ...
New language discovered in northern Australia
A new language, one that combines elements of English with traditional indigenous speech, has been discovered in northern Australia, according to a ...
Linguistics Goes to Hollywood
On April 19, the Linguistics Department at UC San Diego (aka the Extreme Southwest Wing of Language Log Plaza) hosted a special event as part of our ...
Grammar May Be Hidden in Toddler Babble
Kids may use little sounds and air puffs as stand-ins for grammatical words.
Twitter Account Casts Taylor Swift a Feminist
Taylor Swift may not consider herself to be a feminist but a new Twitter account that re-imagines her as one has amassed over 80,000 followers in six ...
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Chinese supercomputer declared world's fastest
China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous U.S. holder and underlining the country's rise as a science ...
Okay, I guess I have the opposite problem of the previous question. I'm going to graduate next …
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