Delicious words

The Language Log article mentions the word "kumquat," which makes me think of this little girl's face.

PERPENDICULAR!

The Language Log on word attraction.

One more Post-It

Via Language Log. I took on their challenge of finding an example of "will have been being" in a reasonable context, but all I found was a rather dirty nonsense poem.

On a sad note

All the best to Alex after the loss of his dog. She looks so lovely on camera and in photos.

From his archives:

The body is a language sculpture. It is a thing built from a circular story - the double helix code that tells a stomach to be a stomach, the liver a liver, the brain a brain and the heart to be a heart. When the grammar of that language breaks down and the body starts to babble to itself, the body grows in chaotic, nonsensical ways. That is what cancer is.