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Can I just say on a related note that I'm chuffed to bits to see interesting linguistics stories make it to the frontpage? No linkbait, no inane Silicon Valley inside baseball, and all that usual stuff.


If you're interested in this sort of thing, http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics is worth subscribing to also. One of the better sub-Reddits.


Subscribed a long time ago. :)

But yeah, it's probably one of the best subreddits I subscribe to.


I agree with your sentiment. My concern is that this is essentially academic linkbait :P


Fair enough, I don't disagree entirely. ;)


> no inane Silicon Valley inside baseball

I think that a lot of this does have value to people on this site. If you're going to be involved in the SV community, it's important to stay up-to-date on the "inside baseball".


Though you have to admit that a lot of the conversation in SV sounds like a lot like armchair quarterbacking, and is about as relevant...


There are quarterbacks in baseball now? Now I'm confused.

(Seriously, though: let me just put in a plug for the Language Log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/) which is full of juicy linguistic discussions. Worth it just for the eggcorns.)


That's why I qualified it with "inane". :)

The usual frontpage hits are often so formulaic that the parodies write themselves.




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