Sam Roberts, Dying Languages, Found in New York
David Foster Wallace, “Authority and American Usage,” FN 6, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Lera Boroditsky: “For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world.”
Unbeknownst to me until today, most iPhone apps have a super-large version of their icon (512 x 512 pixels) available as their “album art” in iTunes. The large icon is also used by Apple if the app is featured in the App Store.
Instapaper’s icon features a page of text in its background. Viewing the large icon in iTunes, I found that I could make out many phrases in the text. Searching for some of the phrases on Google yielded only two results, both from the same source: an article in The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of The English Language on the language of political correctness.
