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Weaving Narratives: Possessions = Autobiographies
I recently created a short interview about my art project “Weaving Narratives” where I describe the process of reading objects that people own. I hope you check it out and let me know what you think...
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Why I Believe in Cut & Paste as a Design Strategy
Cut & Paste is not just a keyboard function. In fact, R.G. Collingwood coined the term in the mid 1940’s in his book The Idea of History, but being a more formal speaker of a more formal ancestor...
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Inherent Narratives in Ad Hoc Collections
Part of my portfolio includes this project called Weaving Narratives: Possessions = Autobiographies, it is an exploration into how any ad hoc grouping of objects has some kind of inherent narrative,...
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Semiotics, Satellite Imagery, and Compound Stacks of Signs
I think that semiotics is a useful tool in understanding Geographic Information Systems (GIS); in particular, I think that Per Aage Brandt’s cognitive semiotic “table of signs” provides an interesting...
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Speed through Penmanship
I never realized this, but apparently cursive writing is supposed to make you write faster. [I always hated making uppercase Q...]Filed under: Human Enhancement, Literacy, Multifaceted Experience,...
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How Novel Constructions Emerge Over Time
Reading Michael Israel’s The Way Constructions Grow taught me some things about how novel constructions actually emerge in a language. I encourage you to check out this classic article. The -Way...
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How I became a Linguist: Characteristics of Intelligent Behavior
Sometime in the early nineties my mother gave me a list of Arthur Costa’s twelve characteristics of intelligent behavior. This list actually had a lot of influence in my life as I stumbled upon the...
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How Inception Helps Me Edit Papers
When I am writing a paper that has a page limit I use the first draft to make sure that I have a complete thought, I do not worry about exceeding the page limit. For the first round of editing I read...
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Celebrate the Ides of March: Caused Motion Transitivity, Brutus and the Knife
I was thinking about examples of caused-motion verbs and realized that English has a caused-motion transitive use of the verb to run. What might an example look like? Simple: “Brutus ran a knife into...
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Different Uses of “If”
If we don’t pay that ticket, then I will have to go to court. [causal] It would be great if everyone just got along. [idealistic] I wonder if she knows she has jelly all over her silk blouse? [oblique]...
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