will have had gone

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming you...

Narzißmus der kleinen Differenzen

This is one of the most intense, bitter and personalized exchanges that I've ever seen in the scientific or technical literature. And it...

unable to understand basic sentences

Overall, I found the experiments fairly convincing. I do worry a bit about what some colleagues and I used to call "the paper airplane...

the house style

Mark Liberman finds a site, Onlinestylebooks.com , that lets you search 43 stylebooks at once: Surveying this explicit variety of sources ma...

continent cut off

Mark Liberman discusses 'beg the question' on Language Log. A commenter chips in. As to whether 'begs the question' is an a...

China Babel

YouKu 优酷 is a good example of what may be called "Sino-English," which I predict will become increasingly evident in the years to ...