Postings on Language Log (with initials of poster plus date of posting) and on AZBlog (with a date but no initials), plus some linguistically relevant xkcd postings not yet blogged on. xkcd postings are identified by their number plus their title on xkcd; an xkcd posting with number N can be viewed at http//xkcd.org/N/ .

Comments in square brackets are from me or Dave Sayers (from an 11/14/14 posting of his on the variationists’ mailing list, VAR-L) (Note: a few of the postings from Language Log Classic are missing images, but these can be seen by using the number of the posting.)

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☛ ML, 7/20/06: Getting on the map:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003371.html

114: Computational Linguists [computational linguistics]

26: Fourier

37: Hyphen [syntax]

☛ http://xkcd.com/145/

145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics [standard language ideologies]

☛ http://xkcd.com/148/

148: Mispronouncing [standard language ideologies]

☛ http://xkcd.com/166/

166: Misusing Slang [language change]

☛ ML, 2/3/07: Charm school (and battling logicians):

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004139.html

207: What xkcd Means

☛ ML, 2/14/07: Choice and meaning:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004194.html

222: Small Talk

☛ ML, 4/10/07: The labyrinth guards:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004393.html

246: Labyrinth Puzzle

☛ ML, 8/5/07: Emotional code:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004789.html

297: Lisp Cycles

☛ AZ, 9/26/07: Hyphen migration, cartoon style:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004963.html

37: Hyphen [image missing]

☛ ML, 10/8/07: Shooting down ‘amateur grammar nazis’:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004997.html

326: Effect an Effect [grammar / standard language ideologies]

☛ AZ, 11/13/07: Like a ring in a bell:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005110.html

342: 1337: Part 2 [image missing]

☛ ML, 10/20/07: To what after shampooing?:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005042.html

329: Turing Test

☛ EB, 12/6/07: Speak xkcd or die:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005191.html

84: National Language [national language ideology, US specifically]

☛ EB, 12/31/07: Proxy debates:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005274.html

[about “Speak xkcd or die”]

☛ ML, 1/11/08: In the funny papers:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005310.html

369: Dangers

☛ BPo, 2/07/08: Unicode humor:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005372.html

380: Emoticon [image missing]

☛ ML, 2/22/08: Just in case…:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005406.html

386: Duty Calls

☛ ML, 3/3/08: Someone’s word order is wrong on the internet:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005424.html

[more on 386]

☛ ML, 3/14/08: Cognitive therapy for word rage:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005457.html

385: How It Works

☛ AZ, 3/22/08: Something wiki this way comes:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005482.html

285: Wikipedian Protester [image missing]

☛ ML, 4/25/08: Closer, my ex, of you:



415: Restraining Order

☛ ML, 6/13/08: Linguistic purity?:



435: Purity

☛ ML, 7/18/10: Ranking fields by the difficulty of imposter detection:



451: Impostor

☛ ML, 9/3/08: Lists, comprehensive and otherwise:



468: Fetishes

☛ ML, 9/11/08: Supercollider? I hardly know her:



474: Turn-On

☛ AZ, 9/25/08: Return to the dwarf planet Pluto:



473: Still Raw

☛ ML, 9/27/08: No comment:



481: Listen to Yourself

☛ ML, 10/9/08: Munroe’s Law:



483: Fiction Rule of Thumb

☛ ML, 11/12/08: Eastward is as eastward does:



503: Terminology

☛ ML, 12/4/08: I’m rich!:



512: Alternate Currency

☛ ML, 12/19/08: Messing around:



519: 11th Grade

☛ http://xkcd.com/529/

529: Sledding Discussion [language acquisition]

☛ ML, 1/13/09: Too many communication modalities:



530: I’m An Idiot

☛ ML, 2/4/09: Statistically significant other:



539: Boyfriend

☛ ML, 5/5/09: Wait, what?:



508: Drapes

163: Donald Knuth

437: SUV

108: M.C. Hammer Slide

518: Flow Charts

☛ AZ, 7/17/09: Erdős?:



599: Apocalypse

☛ AZ, 7/21/09: Cross-modal interference:



604: Qwertial Aphasia

☛ ML, 7/23/09: Conversational incongruence:



611: Disaster Voyeurism

☛ ML, 8/20/09: Levels of misunderstanding:



625: Collections

☛ ML, 9/2/09: Illustrating the maxim of quantity…:



630: Time Travel

☛ ML, 10/4/09: God speed the plow:



643: Ohm

☛ ML, 10/9/09: Time and the river:



647: Scary

☛ BZ, 4/9/10: Revenge, literally speaking:



725: Literally

☛ ML, 4/22/10: Hypothesis-driven research:



54: Science

☛ ML, 5/5/10: Sex and color language:



Color Survey Results

on xkcd blog: results of online color survey

☛ ML, 5/12/10: 22 arguments:



739: Malamanteau [portmanteaus]

☛ ML, 5/22/10: Unce:



740: The Tell-Tale Beat

☛ ML, 5/26/10: I kept doingn it wrongn:



745: Dyslexics

☛ http://xkcd.com/762/

762: Analogies [rhetoric]

☛ DB, 7/11/10: Count on xkcd:



764: One Two

☛ ML, 7/23/10: “Context is everything” again:



770: All the Girls

☛ ML, 8/15/10: Period speech:



771: Period Speech [language change / historical linguistics]

☛ GP, 9/27/10: Obscene intensificatory adverb frequencies:



798: Adjectives [corpus linguistics]

☛ ML, 10/26/10: Just add “intelligent” and “informed” …:



810: Constructive

☛ ML, 11/6/10: Once more into the malamanteau:



more discussion on malamanteau

☛ ML, 1/20/11: Getting real:



849: Complex Conjugate

☛ ML, 2/4/11: Digitoneurolinguistic hacking:



856: Trochee Fixation

☛ ML, 2/8/11: What does “even” even mean?:



156: Commented

☛ ML, 2/21/11: Collegiate learning:



863: Major in the Universe

☛ ML, 3/6/11: They almost non-metaphorically never complain about this!:



725: Literally

☛ ML, 3/10/11: Adspeak:



870: Advertising

☛ ML, 3/15/11: Eigenfeet, eigenfaces, eigenlinguistics, …:



872: Fairy Tales

☛ 5/5/11: Idiocracy:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/idiocracy/

603: Idiocracy

☛ ML, 5/6/11: Bonferroni rules:



882: Significant

☛ ML, 5/20/11: No word for Rapture:



900: Religions

☛ BZ, 6/28/11: The pleasures of recursive acronymy:



917: Hofstadter

☛ ML, 7/1/11: Hated words:



919: Tween Bromance [word rage, word aversion]

☛ ML, 7/11/11: Important editorial advice:



923: Strunk and White

☛ GP, 8/12/11: Password strength:



926: Password Strength

☛ ML, 9/28/11: Integration of knowledge:



957: Development

☛ ML, 11/6/11: Kids today yesterday:



973: MTV Generation

☛ GP, 12/3/11: Grayton support down by 19%:



985: Percentage Points

☛ ML, 1/23/12: The sustainability bubble:



1007: Sustainable [corpus linguistics]

☛ 1/23/12: Fucking ambiguity:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/fucking-ambiguity/

90: Jacket

☛ 1/23/14: Fiction rule of thumb:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/fiction-rule-of-thumb/

483: Fiction Rule of Thumb

☛ 1/30/12: Etymology-Man:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/etymology-man/

1010: Eymology-Man [etymology]

☛ ML, 3/19/12: A non-mathematical theory of communication:



1028: Communication

☛ 3/30/12: Formal logic:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/formal-logic/

1033: Formal Logic

☛ 5/7/12: xkcd back-formation:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/xkcd-back-formation/

1052: Every Major’s Terrible

☛ ML, 6/13/12: Your typical sentence:



1068: Swiftkey

☛ 7/13/12: Person or robot?:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/person-or-robot/

773: University Website

☛ 7/29/12: Amazing app:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/amazing-app/

1085: ContextBot

☛ BZ, 9/14/12: A cautionary vision of things to come:



1108: Cautionary Ghost [on literally: semantics / language change / standard language ideologies]

☛ ML, 11/21/12: It’s worse than you thought:



1137: RTL

☛ ML, 12/14/12: Hydrated and delicious:



replay of 919: Tween Bromance [word rage, word aversion]

☛ 4/10/13: Ups and downs:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/ups-and-downs/

1197: All Adobe Updates

☛ 5/2/13: The 12-inch pianist:

https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/the-12-inch-pianist/

532: Piano

☛ 7/16/13: Internet enlightenment:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/16/internet-enlightenment/

1238: Enlightenment

☛ 8/23/13: Means of communication:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/23/means-of-communication-2/

1254: Preferred Chat System

☛ ML, 11/14/13: xkc-infix-d:



1290: Syllable Planning

☛ BZ, 11/18/13: Can “[adjective]-ass” occur predicatively?:



37: Hyphen

☛ 1/18/14: Academic purity:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/01/18/academic-purity/

435: Purity

☛ ML, 1/27/14: A stick tower by any other name:



1322: Winter

☛ 1/28/14: xkcd vocabulary:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/01/28/xkcd-vocabulary/

another posting of 1322

☛ 2/11/14: Messing with my mind:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/02/11/messing-with-my-mind/

559: No Pun Intended

☛ 3/24/14: My Hobby Comics:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/24/my-hobby-comics/

559 again

326: Effect an Effect

174: That’s What SHE Said

259: Clichéd Exchange

1340: Unique Date

75: Curse Levels

☛ ML, 6/18/14: (Prosodic) foot fetish:



1383: Magic Words

☛ ML, 8/25/14: Teenage Mutant Turtle Metrics:



1412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

☛ 10/11/14: Strunk & White and Strunk/White:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/11/strunk-white-and-strunkwhite/

reposting of 7/11/11 cartoon (923)

☛ 11/6/14: Language nerd:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/06/language-nerd/

1443: Language Nerd

☛ 11/7/14: Adverb and Adverbial:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/07/adverb-and-adverbial/

follow-up to “Language nerd” posting

☛ ML, 11/19/14: The Insular Islands:



1449: Red Rover

☛ 12/14/14: Small Moon:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/14/small-moon/

1458: Small Moon

☛ GP, 2/6/15: Linguists get tough on promoting language change:



1483: Quotative Like

☛ 2/6/15: Data on xkcd:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/06/data-on-xkcd/

1429: Data

☛ 2/10/15: technically:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/10/technically/

1475: Technically

☛ 3/13/15: leg-jiggling:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/13/leg-jiggling/

228: Resonance

☛ 3/16/15: xkcd on science and math:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/16/xkcd-on-science-and-math/

1489: Fundamental forces; 287: NP-Complete

☛ 3/28/15: na na n:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/28/na-na-na/

851: Na

☛ 4/17/15: Sevens:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/17/sevens/

1417: Seven

☛ ML, 4/17/15: Style guide:



1513: Code Quality

☛ 5/6/15: Disciplines in competition:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/06/academic-disciplines-in-competition/

1520: Degree-Off

☛ 5/27/15: Association by bracketing:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/27/association-by-bracketing/

1529: Brackets

☛ ML, 5/29/15: The BDLPSWDKS Effect:



1531: The BDLPSWDKS Effect

☛ ML, 7/3/15: Ancestors:



1545: Strengths and Weaknesses

☛ ML, 7/22/15: Spice lists:



1554: Spice Girls

☛ 7/28/15: Going on in Antwerp:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/28/going-on-in-antwerp/

slides for Traugott/Zwicky IPrA paper on My Hobby xkcd cartoons

☛ ML, 7/29/15: Recursive romantics:



1557: Ozymandias

☛ ML, 8/10/15: Orthography and meaning:



1562: I in Team

☛ 9/4/15: Two from xkcd:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/04/two-from-xkcd/

1571: Car Model Names

1572: xkcd Survey

☛ ML, 9/11/15: Caring, more or less:



1576: I Could Care Less

☛ 9/13/15: Caring:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/13/caring/

1576 again

☛ ML, 10/21/15: Describing events:



1593: Play-By-Play

☛ ML, 11/9/15: Take a Hint:



1601: Isolation

☛ ML, 11/11/15: Linguistics Club:



1602: Linguistics Club

☛ ML, 11/18/15: Nicholas Wade’s DNA decoded:



1605: DNA

☛ 1/6/16: The New Year’s resolution:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/06/the-new-years-resolution/

about xkcd cartoons; Eugene Chan tribute to xkcd

☛ ML, 2/12/16: The gravitational internet:



1642: Gravitational Waves

☛ ML, 2/19/16: Brilliant:



1645: Toasts

☛ ML, 2/26/16: Scrambled pairings:



1648: Famous Duos

☛ ML, 3/7/16: Pedantic about biscuit conditionals:



1652: Conditionals

☛ ML, 3/26/16: Good question:



1660: Captain Speaking

☛ ML, 3/29/16: Semantic differential: Podium or lectern?:



1661: Podium

☛ ML, 7/8/16: The Legend of Gnome Ann: The Legend of Gnome Ann

1704: The Legend of Gnome Ann

☛ ML, 7/21/16: Pictographic English?: Inflection

1709: Inflection

☛ ML, 7/29/16: PolitiFact says: Politifact

1712: Politifact

☛ 8/6/16: xkcd mansplaining:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/06/xkcd-mansplaining/

1716: Time Travel Thesis

☛ 8/11/16: Collatz days:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/11/collatz-days/

710: Collatz Conjecture (3/5/10)

☛ ML, 8/27/16: Rexthor: Linear Regression

1725 Linear Regression

☛ ML, 9/16/16: Some kind of strict police: Fashion Police and Grammar Police

1735 Fashion Police and Grammar Police

☛ 11/16/16: Placenames of the British isles:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/16/placenames-of-the-british-isles/

1759 British Map

☛ 12/13/16: Three from xkcd:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/13/three-from-xkcd/

1767 US State Names

1770 UI Change

1771 It Was I

☛ ML, 12/19/16: Adjective foods:



1774 Adjective Foods

☛ 12/22/16: Edible adjectives:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/22/edible-adjectives/

1774 Adjective Foods

☛ 3/22/17: An outrageous but colorful pun:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/22/an-outrageous-but-colorful-pun/

1814 Color Pattern

☛ 4/26/17: The geological vocabulary bluff:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/26/the-geological-vocabulary-bluff/

1829 Geochronology

☛ ML, 5/8/17: Lunch order::



1834 Lunch Order

☛ 5/9/17: For want of an A, the world was saved:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/09/for-want-of-an-a-the-world-was-saved/

1834 Lunch Order

☛ GP, 5/11/17: Similes for quality of computer code:



discussion of three cartoons:

1513 Code Quality

1695 Code Quality 2

1833 Code Quality 3

☛ ML, 5/17/17: Machine learning:



1838 Machine Learning

☛ 5/27/17: Memorial Saturday 4:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/27/memorial-saturday-4/

#4 1841 Who?

☛ ML, 6/2/17: Slightly unfair, but funny:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=33024

1845 State Word Map

☛ 6/7/17: The word came down on Pentecost:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/07/the-word-came-down-on-pentecost/

#8 1845 State Word Map

☛ 7/8/17: Words on a wall:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/08/words-on-a-wall/

1860 Communicating

☛ 8/2/17: Adventures in compounding:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/02/adventures-in-compounding/

1681 Laser Products

☛ 8/5/17: This way to the regress:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/05/this-way-to-the-regress/

1872 Backup Batteries

☛ 4/3/18: Research Risks and Name Dominoes:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/03/research-risks-and-name-dominoes/

1904 Research Risks

1970 Name Dominoes

☛ 5/4/18: Initialisms off the rails:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/04/initialisms-off-the-rails/

1989 IMHO

☛ 7/22/18: Rubber and glue:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/23/rubber-and-glue/

#2: 1139 Rubber and Glue

☛ 12/20/18: Sports commentary:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/20/sports-commentary/

904 Sports

☛ 6/2/20: Cereal adjectives:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/02/cereal-adjectives/

#2: 1774 Adjective food

☛ 8/31/20: Synonyphilia:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/08/31/synonyphilia/

2352 Synonym Date