The bulk of this afternoon was taken up not with working (as I should have been doing) but rather fuming over this article by the president-elect of the American Library Association - which most fellow "Blog People" and supporters thereof will p…
Slapping the president of the American Library Association upside the head.…
For your reading pleasure, here are a couple of linguistics-related links that were sent to me today. The first - a blog entry called Linguae non Francae - was sent to me by my mom. It’s a great refutation of the terribly short-sighted argument that…
First of all, hello to any Mount Holyoke women who may have found me through the article on blogging that Liddy Gerchman (who has a truly excellent blog of her own) wrote for the latest Alumnae Quarterly. I feel really privileged to have been included in…
Reading the New York Times food section this morning, I came across an article about Homaro Cantu (login: wrreaders), the chef at an upscale restaurant in Chicago who is taking wacky food preparation to new heights (or lows, depending on your point of vie…
In which I get on my high linguistics horse and rant.…