Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Year!

Slang is part of life

Down with linguistic purity!

If you surround yourself with people who overuse such language, kindly do yourself and all of us a favor and simply remove yourself from the particular linguistic environment. Why keep nagging? Language is inevitable and slang or various linguistic fads are part of life (and language). If it weren't for those, various mainstream NLP techniques would have a hard time programming in probabilities for single-word transitions (okay, that's a little NLP joke). Besides, most of the language listed in the link above is teenage-speak.

New Year's wish



[cartoon by Nick Galiafianakis for the Washington Post]