Author Archives: Kevin

Funny video: ‘Don’t You Just Love Working in an Office?’

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Kevin

Youtube videos are not all stunts/cute animals or else (near-)professional content. There are also simple, low-budget amateur videos that are well-written and well-performed, such as katinatreesee’s video “Don’t You Just Love Working in an Office?” She plays a slacker office-worker … Continue reading →

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Video: ‘Language and Humor: First Show’

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Kevin

[my first live-action video] This is the first show of “Language and Humor.” You’ll see that everything goes well until— Actually, you’ll see that it never starts going well. Could I— Could I have a moment alone, please? Link to … Continue reading →

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Resources for constructing alien languages

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Kevin

If you want to create a realistic science fiction/fantasy world, language helps a lot. Here are some conlang (constructed language) resources for creators and those interested. How to write the next great alien language (io9.com on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish and … Continue reading →

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Video: ‘Logo Teaser Trailer Parody’

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Kevin

[my first video] While I was working on my blog layout recently, my site logo asked if he could have a little time off. I said OK. Little did I know that he’d gotten a starring role in a movie. … Continue reading →

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Adding some style to your Internet words

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Kevin

I just got the new The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World (about half of which is online for free). The first thing I wanted to check was the word … Continue reading →

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The Force is strong in these GPS voices

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Kevin

[Obligatory Yoda inverted word order here insert you may.] The folks at TomTom are selling Star Wars voices for their GPS devices and seemed to have enjoyed the making of behind-the-scenes videos of the recording sessions. The Yoda one has … Continue reading →

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Wordnik Smartwords: E-books just got schooled

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Kevin

If you’re reading books as E-books on E-readers or iPads, chances are you’d like to exploit the new platform by making reading more interactive. E-readers already have built-in dictionaries, but now the Smartwords open standard from the Wordnik online dictionary … Continue reading →

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Blog back

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Kevin

You might notice a bit of a gap in blog posts (if a mere two years even qualifies as “a bit of a gap”). Aside from my being busy for a while, the gap is due to the WordPress blogging … Continue reading →

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Buffy (and SNL) ‘much’ much?: Slang research with Hulu.com, Part 2

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Kevin

[EDIT (6/7/10): I broke this long post up into two posts.] This is Part 2 (Part 1) on finding early uses of American slang and colloquialisms from the television clips and episodes on Hulu‘s (language corpus of) shows from NBC … Continue reading →

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SNL NOT!: Slang research with Hulu.com, Part 1

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Kevin

Having trouble finding early uses of slang and colloquialisms? If you’re looking for instances of American (and possibly Canadian) ones, the television clips and episodes on Hulu from NBC Universal (NBC, USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi, Sundance Channel, Oxygen) and … Continue reading →

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