"You scalar implicature!"
Language Log 2024-11-29
Summary:
Today's SMBC: Mouseover title: "Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT to use." The AfterComic: I'm always happy to see Linguistics singled out for praise, but in fairness, technical terminology works pretty well from whatever domain: Exocrine secretion! Weak anisotropic reflection! Torridonian alluvium! Conjugacy-closed subgroup! Homotopical nilpotency! Simplicial foliation! Hypersoft bijection! Facticious akataphasia! […]