Over the past decade or so, I have been increasingly emphasizing that the languages we speak belong to the linguistic communities we participate in. A few days ago, I was a little thrilled to be vindicated when Adam Curry declared what I wish to refer to as his cardinal rule of podcasting: Be about your… Continue reading Relationships Among Local and Topical and Milieus
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Group Pride
Elvis was sick. Marilyn was sick. Dorothy was sick. Adolf was very very sick. They all became heroes in their times. [1] How reliable was the Oracle at Delphi? Did anyone maintain statistics about the reliability (and / or the validity) of this technology? Oh, wait a second — modern scientific methods had not been… Continue reading Group Pride
