Jurafsky: The Language of Food
Press coverage of Dan Jurafsky’s The Language of Food exposes readers to linguistic ideas ranging from etymology and vocabulary to pragmatics, the philosophy of language,… Read More »Jurafsky: The Language of Food
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Ambiguity, jokes, and trick questions
“If you choose an answer at random, what is your probability of being correct?” The question is, I think, pragmatically ambiguous. It features neither lexical… Read More »Ambiguity, jokes, and trick questions