by Carl Howard | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Society
If you’ve been online in the last 3 months, you’ve probably seen the SlutWalk phenomenon. If not, a quick recap: Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti said “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”. The Toronto SlutWalk was...
by Carl Howard | May 23, 2011 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Language
I’ve discovered interesting Chinese version to the old Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo stuff I posted on almost a year ago. Firstly, the most common Chinese languages that people have been exposed to in English-speaking countries are Mandarin or Cantonese....
by Carl Howard | May 19, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, History, Language, Society
Luke Muehlhauser has a very interesting page up where he’s run every inaugural speech from every US president through an automatic reading level analyser. Here is the page for the full graph and stats. For the lazy, it basically starts off very high from George...
by Carl Howard | Jul 12, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible, Language, Science and Skepticism
I’ve been moving and in the pandemonium have stuffed up the schedule so you might have seen a half-baked version of this yesterday. Here’s the real thing! A recent episode of the Atheist Experience has made me aware of one of the most ridiculous arguments for...
by Carl Howard | Jul 7, 2010 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Language
To start with, I humbly ask the reader to pronounce these two words out aloud. If you’re not sure, do your best: victuals, island. Within the realm of science/atheist/philosophy blogosphere, spelling and grammar pedantry abounds. I’ve found the stereotype of the...
