Pop Punk Voice
Linguistics and a Blink-182 song.
Linguistics
The Crayola-fication of the World: How We Gave Colors Names, and It Messed with Our Brains
Vegetables are “blue” in Japanese and other observations on the uneasy relationship between color and language.
The Framing Wars
How “grand metaphors” drive politics.
The Stupidity of Computers
A history of the divide between computing and language, and why we “define and regiment our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of our selves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can ‘understand.’”
Tramp-Speak of Antiquarian Road Warriors: ABC's of Tramps, Hobos and Vagabonds
On the language of hobos and the dictionaries it spawned.
