The latest xkcd:
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Trocheeotomy? Or should it be trochee-ectomy? (~trocheeectomy)
[Some additional things:
Here's an interesting chart of trochee bigrams from the xkcd blag:
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And Mark Liberman on Language Log offers some discussion here. (I imagine xkcd is thinking of Snow Crash rather than The Big U. By the bye, the linguistic-y part of Snow Crash I've always felt to be the weakest part of the book.) ]
[Some additional things:
Here's an interesting chart of trochee bigrams from the xkcd blag:
[again, click for larger image]
And Mark Liberman on Language Log offers some discussion here. (I imagine xkcd is thinking of Snow Crash rather than The Big U. By the bye, the linguistic-y part of Snow Crash I've always felt to be the weakest part of the book.) ]
The alt-text:
If you Huffman-coded all the 'random' things everyone on the internet has said over the years, you'd wind up with, like, 30 or 40 bytes *tops*.
Obviously -ectomy. It is proposed to remove the offending words, not to put holes in them. (This commentary is already free of them.)
ReplyDeleteScrapple: Best and greatest of all possible trochees?
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