When interests collide...

I'm on a linguistics kick at the moment. I don't know how it happened, but in my wanderings around the internet I stumbled upon several fun linguistics blogs. I quite liked the linguistics side of my university education though to tell you the truth quite a bit of it went over my head and I don't remember much of it apart from joking about the tree-pruning shoes that my rather old-fashioned lecturer of Introduction to Linguistics used to wear.

The use of language in Buffy is a huge part of why I came to enjoy it. That's why the dubbed version never did anything much for me. So, I was very happy when I found the following link on languagelog: Glemphy will not be Word of the Year.

I don't think I'll try to incorporate glemphy into my vocabulary, but then watching Buffy has already changed the way I speak and write.

Battered but still around

I talked somewhere else about gumball machines. Today I spotted a very old one in my neighbourhood.

( Here it is. )

If you want to share a gumball machine memory, go here.