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Archive for July, 2009
2009 SONA word cloud
27 Jul 2009
Here’s a word cloud of the 2009 State of the Nation Address. Common prepositions and function words were omitted in creating this cloud.
To be fair, the president used “inclusive” pronouns such as “we,” “our” and “atin” quite a lot. [...]
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- Tags: Language, Politics, Word Cloud
Sonananaman
26 Jul 2009Tomorrow, Gloria Arroyo will once again deliver her State of the Nation Address. What’s in store for her audience remains to be heard but as always, we can always expect it to be one heck of a day.
Classes have been suspended at all levels but only a few students will be listening with a critical [...]
Reviving Sugoi Stuff
In: Internet and Web
20 Jul 2009My first attempt at “pro” blogging (as in trying to make money with blogging) isn’t with this website or with Bloggy Network. It’s with this blog – Sugoi Stuff. It was December of 2006 when I proposed the idea to a couple of friends of mine from back in college. Being the anime heads that [...]
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- Tags: Anime, Entertainment, Geek, Sugoi, Sugoi Stuff
Breaking ads or classified news?
In: News
19 Jul 2009When did they begin considering classified ads as breaking news? So this is of national importance?
Quick! A finance management position needs to be filled! The nation’s economy will collapse if this doesn’t get filled!
It would’ve been a lot more interesting if its an ad for an honest politician.
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- Tags: Advertisements, Inquirer, News
Had quite an interesting discussion regarding Gricean pragmatics this morning and had me thinking about . It’s funny how all of these theories and books can be filtered down and summarized to just a few of their core sections. With H.P. Grice, many linguistics majors just remember him with his Co-operative Principle.
In a nutshell, the [...]
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- Tags: English, Grice, Internet, Language, Linguistics, Pragmatics
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