“Other approaches don’t have to be bad in order for your approach to be good” — natural language processing blog
“In my experience few papers are worthless. But I’ve heard lots of papers called worthless.” from the blog of Seth Roberts
“Last week, journalism lost its most incisive, stubbornly accurate, and unfailing hilarious chronicler of the failings of the mortgage industry” — Calculated Risk
“A quick chat with any of the overseas “delegates” would have quickly revealed that something was amiss” — The Peking Order
“How many times have the Chinese people’s feelings been hurt, anyway?” — Danwei
The Chinese Text Project, “hey, etymology!” — Languagehat
Geoff Pullum bizarrely (and unusually) wrong — Language Log
“If you’ve been procrastinating on reading Dream of the Red Chamber in the original Chinese…” — Adsotrans / Popup Chinese
Beijing Sounds on this date a year ago: “Mandarin is easy; 中文 is a pain in the…“
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