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Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Log may refer to:
Wooden log, also known as timber, wood from trees used for construction or wood pulp for paper production
Data log, a record of sequential data
Logbook, a log of important events in the management, operation and navigation of a ship
Web log, Web's log, Weblog, 'blog, or blog, a reverse chronological journal
Logarithm, the mathematical operation that is the inverse of exponentiation, or the result of this operation.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.This page was last modified 09:39, 24 January 2008.Follow that link first if you don't!After these preliminaries, we can now get into the meat of
the matter.Let's illustrate this definition with a few examples.How do you convert a logarithm with respect to one
base to a logarithm with respect to another base?Why does the base have to be positive?What is it that makes natural logarithms natural?X) returns the natural
logarithm of the elements of X.NPR that Marie Smith Jones, the last speaker of
the indigenous Alaskan language Eyak, has died at 89.Eyak because, as one of her daughters put it, they "grew up
at a time when it was considered wrong to speak anything but
English."Michael Krauss, a professor emeritus at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks and the world's most prominent expert on Native
Alaskan languages, worked some years ago with her and two of her
relatives to compile a dictionary and grammar of her language, as
well as a collection of Eyak stories.With her death, the Eyak language becomes extinct."After giving a talk yesterday at the University of Chicago, I flew back to Philadelphia this morning, and at an airport newstand I bought a copy of Michael Crichton's 2006 novel Next to read on the plane.Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202.Then between chapters 33 and 34, there's another fake (?Some media observers noted that news organizations no longer check anything.Let's face it, it's a good story.Recently there appeared on Facebook
a picture of a group of
Zeta Psi fraternity pledges in front of the Yale Women's Center with a big sign
saying WE LOVE YALE SLUTS."Variations on the Death of Trotsky."One joke hinges on a fun linguistic distinction, and would be ineffably untranslatable in many languages, so I thought it might be of interest to you Log linguaphiles.No sooner thought than posted...To his surprise, police later drove from Gloucestershire to where he
lives in Cambridgeshire (a drive of many hours) and arrested him for this
remark.Indiana Jones' spirit certainly infects the intrepid heroes of "The Linguists."These are bold academics who plunge into the jungles and backwater villages of the world to rescue living tongues about to go extinct.Or maybe it was both of them, at different times.As an English title this enters the ranks of the
extremely few books ever published with titles that
are not syntactic constituents.Likewise the whole conditional adjunct if you ever plan to motor west.But no one would claim that highway that's
the is a constituent.And similarly, no linguist would claim that
if
you is a constituent.It sold 400,000 copies and became the No.Language Log's Reading the Original Paper and Thinking About the Actual Numbers department.And the actual numbers are pretty simple.Thus they
can say that any reference to a man injuring himself will be deemed to
cover also the case of a woman injuring herself (which of course is not
correct: men are from Mars and women are from Venus and himself
can only refer to a male).Thus lawyers perceive a slight difference in meaning between judge
X to be Y or consider X to be Y on the one hand and deem
X to be Y on the other: people who judge or consider X to be
Y typically think it really is, whereas people who deem X
to be Y typically think it isn't.The job of the returning
officer, in fact, is to stand in front of the microphones and declare
elected the person who the officials supervising the count have deemed
to be elected.The barks can be decoded to
discern the dogs' emotional state: "when a dog has seen a ball, when
it is fighting, playing, meeting a stranger or when it wants a walk."I'm sure
that if you are the sort of person to whom this has any appeal, you
already believe that your dog understands every word you say.Just don't bother to
report any of its opinions to me, OK?Or an interjection playfully misinterpreted as a nickname.My initial hypothesis was that this name came from some indigenous language of Latin America, but it turns out that the parents are Puerto Rican, which makes this unlikely.Can any of our readers inform me as to the origin of this name?The candidates have all (for very good reasons) decided to pull back from the mutual kamikaze tone of the past few days.Their discussion constituted a repudiation of the old Boss Daley of Chicago, who famously said that politics ain't beanbag.Apparently politics is beanbag, because that's all the Democrats threw at each other tonight.In any case, my general experience with pacifists has been that they're more argumentative than average, not less.Ben Winograd at the Scotus Blog listed and linked the amicus briefs filed on January 11 in support of the petitioner in District of Columbia v.Brief for Professors of Linguistics and English Dennis E.Will the Humanities Save Us?These essays, structured as conversations with commenters on his blog, are a lucid exploration of a complex and important topic.To the question "of what use are the humanities?"It deals with the way language analysis interacts
with law suits involving corporations, including business contract
disputes, deceptive trade practices, product liability, copyright
infringement, discrimination, trademarks, and false representations.Sometimes language change amazes even us linguists.Apparently it is the very incongruity of this choice that motivates it.Black people constitute only 2.Since the stereotypical Canadian is white (with a red serge uniform) you'd never expect "Canadian" to mean "black".That makes it a good choice as a covert racist term.Continue reading "No dogs or Canadians?"If you don't understand what he's talking about, read this.If you know a specific reference, tell me.The Linguists, which I mentioned last month."We're trying to capture a story in a limited amount of time, and the linguists are trying to recover a language before it dies, which might even happen while we are there," Mr."Language is essentially a historical library of information about a people and a culture," Dr.Continue reading "Quickly, before they're gone, or else...?"On the way back from the LSA meeting, having finished the light reading that I had brought with me, I bought Steve Berry's The Alexandria Link.CVSTOS RERVM PRVDENTIA
"Prudence is the guardian of things," he said, translating, but his Greek was good enough to know that the first word could also be read as "wisdom".Either way, the message seemed clear.Presidential candidate Bill Richardson, in the immediate aftermath
of the New Hampshire primary voting, announced:
I want to apologize to all the New
Hampshire voters who I interrupted their meals the last few days.Morning Edition the next morning.English could mistake its intended
meaning),
(b) thoroughly ungrammatical in standard English, and (c) entirely
unsurprising as a fix for problems in production.No matter whether you laugh at this bit of folk humor, its wide
circulation bespeaks a modern predicament for American men.Today's Cathy illustrates our cultures' obsession with the physiology of emotional states, and the associated propensity to magnify out of all proportion every outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual feeling:
Remember the NYT's venture into the phrenology of political perception?In the Democratic corner, we have Barrack Abeam.And last, but definitely not least, John Moccasin.Alas, that last one turns up too many *legitimate* Google hits and not enough Cupertinos...Continue reading "More campaign cupertinos: Mike Hackable, John Moccasin, Rot Paul, Chris Dodo ..."That's from a lovely blog I just learned about via the NYTimes (I forget where the chain of links I was happily following started), "Sexagenarian and the City".The Dominion (New Zealand) (Dec.Now: Language Log, the book.Inclimate weather
Flat Yanks, Sharp Brits?Aw+
Database Company to Toyota: Rename that automobile!"I, for one, welcome our new * overlords."Anggarrgoon
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