Did he picket the funeral?

I remember that he planned to, though I'm not sure if he actually managed or not.

And I think lolspeak, given that it does have its own internal consistency (there is such a thing as bad lolspeak, after all), makes a pretty good tool for talking about lanuage and grammar. I don't know if people are using it (I should ask my mother), but I remember reading something online about it. Anyone remember that?

Anyone remember that?

Yes -- in both Languagelog and BoingBoing, maybe a year ago?

I'm so disappointed, reading the NYTimes reviews of the SmartCar--they're all negative. And not in ways that you can be like "Oh, they just don't appreciate it" but like "It only gets 30ish mpg" and "it shifts like ass". Dang. But I totally agree that it ought to be getting mad gas mileage.

It seems utterly unfair that I still miss smoking. It's been years! I'm not addicted! It's kind of unpleasant to smoke these days! Why why why do I still think, "ah, cigarettes..."?

I have seen whole wanky arguments committed entirely in lolcats. And yeah, leet is not spelling-consistent -- I think that's partly the point of leet -- but it's a consistent expression of a set of rules (that don't happen to include specific spellings).

Then again, one of the big tenets of Chomskyan linguistics is: every language and dialect is rule-bound*. It may not follow the same rules from one language to another, but within the language, you will find it has rules and those rules are relatively consistent.

I know some people don't subscribe to Chomsky's theories, but they're a nice heuristic for eye-rolling at linguistic arguments about tresspass upon one's lawn.

I'm so disappointed, reading the NYTimes reviews of the SmartCar--they're all negative. And not in ways that you can be like "Oh, they just don't appreciate it" but like "It only gets 30ish mpg" and "it shifts like ass". Dang. But I totally agree that it ought to be getting mad gas mileage.

I've read one review that complained about the mileage. The review mentioned that you could get a Toyota (the smallest model) for less money that got better gas mileage and had seating for four instead of two....

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Flash has disappeared from my work PC's Firefox, thus rendering Scrabulous unplayable!

Why, Corporate IT, why??

Why why why do I still think, "ah, cigarettes..."?

Because smoking is cool.

I went to Whole Foods at lunch - MADHOUSE. At least I was just buying fish, not actually trying to get lunch there.

I have kind of been eating all morning - 9:30 oatmeal, 11:00 half of yogurt, 1:00 avocado half wrap and smoked salmon half wrap, now rest of yogurt.

I still have a chicken breast with salsa and an apple to go while at work.

Only 50% of users are between 18 and 49 -- which means a large chunk of the under-18 set is picking up lolspeak when they should be learning English.

Have they thought that maybe a lot of the other 50% are people over 49? Hmmm?

And if they're all concerned over the future of the English language, they should be reminded that the ubiquitous "O.K." is from a brief fad of language mauling back in the 1830s, when newspaper columnists decided to use acronyms for cutesy hick sayings/spellings that they'd make up. "O.K." was short for "Oll Korrect," a spelling that nobody, including hicks, would use, but the elitists thought it was hilariously rube-ish.