Language blog aggregator

I’m not on my home machine very much, so I’ve banged together a little, slow language blog aggregator to keep me amused.

Beasts of Europe

The word “cat” does not appear once in the proposed European constitution, although there are five “animals.” Here‘s a search tool.

Snuck

I’ll bet no-one’s going to make jokes about English having become the official language of West Virginia.

Chit

A word of warning to Jacques Chirac.

Lumumba

Here, for no good reason, is a dog monster some of you will know – Lumumba the sheep dog:

Habemus poppadum

As the people of Africa prepare to give thanks for the life of the misogynistic, homophobic, hissing zombie who saved them from AIDS, some of Calle Carmen’s sharpest minds are said to have spent last night in a Punjabi curry house, planning to raid the remains, pope them in the popmobile, and give the man…

WP update

I’m going to do a quick and dirty update to 1.5 this afternoon, so things may look weird for a while (or longer). Update: think it all works. Please tell me if you get any weird stuff.

Student plagiarists

When I was poor, I wrote pastiche in considerable quantities (and even did a few sit-down-and-sweat exams) for music students who could afford not to fulfill their harmony and counterpoint requirements personally. I figured that if institutions issuing degrees were too lazy, stupid or corrupt to investigate a sudden improvement in a student’s grades or,…