There’s trouble at my blog. Used to be, you could go to jeremycherfas.net/wp or wp.jeremycherfas.net and end up at the same place -- here. But some time back -- don’t know when, don’t know where -- the second option stopped working. I tinkered, but couldn’t seem to fix it. So now the home address is...

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Al Gore, accepting his Nobel prize:

In the Kanji characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, “crisis” is written with two symbols, the first meaning “danger,” the second “opportunity.” By facing and removing the danger of the climate crisis, we have the opportunity to gain the moral authorit...

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The blog has taken a back seat of late; we moved, we have no internets, we are tired, we have no time at work. But the whole chaotic jumble is beginning to sort itself out, witness the loaves:

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Errr ... wrong on all counts? I mean, I know it is poetry and all, not science, and very cute for all that. But do we really want even poetry readers to think that there are aliens, and that they do leave signatures? Come to think of it, do we want them to think that the “proper” name for the wheat...

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You know, just between you and me, I sometimes worry that there is a naive view loose out there -- most students come to linguistics believing it, and there appear to be some professional linguists who regard it as central and explanatory -- that language has something to do with purposes of effic...

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