Language, n. The primary means by which well-meaning (and not so well-meaning) men and women confuse, obfuscate, distort, inveigle and misdirect. Occasionally, they also use it to communicate, though this is largely incidental and generally looked down upon as something rude at best and blasphemous at worst. One generally uses a word for its emotional impact and connotations; occasionally one uses a word for its sound; in a few rare cases, a word is used for its precise meaning.
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- A friend is looking for an example data set of Twitter users, network connections and tweet text. Does anyone have one lying around? 03:57:20 PM July 29, 2010 from Tweetie for Mac
- I am evidently not the only one to notice that our lab's research is plastered all over the Harvard economics website: http://j.mp/dBktoK 08:34:46 PM July 26, 2010 from Reeder
- This picture of dawn is so remarkable that it looks like it was computer generated to me: http://bit.ly/9Oi1EY 04:49:57 PM July 23, 2010 from Tweetie for Mac
- I mean, who would ever have thought that voters respond to irrelevant information? And that sports matter too much? http://bit.ly/a4AJZw 02:08:00 PM July 21, 2010 from Tweetie for Mac
- The Lagoa multiphysics engine seems almost too perfect to me: http://bit.ly/9YXNSE 04:40:29 PM July 20, 2010 from Tweetie for Mac