• Look Who's Talking

  • Ivan Sag is giving a talk today at the University of Washington called `Reflections on Competence and Performance'. He's also taking part in a Graduate Student Syntax Roundtable where the topic of discussion will be Ivan and Tom Wasow's forthcoming paper `Performance-Compatible Competence Grammar'.
  
  
• Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O-, A-, B-, B+ and AB-. For an appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.

After extensive research, the latest issue of the New Yorker magazine reveals the truth about language evolution.

Today's Daffynitions

• Vacuum Cleaner: A weapon of mess destruction (wordfoolery)
• Cockney: To bend the leg joint; also a condition in which your leg joint resembles that of a rooster (Cynthia MacGregor)
• Accrue : People who work on a ship . (Gunjan Saraf) .
• Saab: An auto that cries real tears. (Cynthia MacGregor)
• Hearsay: What small children do when you mutter a dirty word. (Stan Kegel)
• Damnation: A country dependent on hydroelectricity. (Tim Breuning)
• Cement: What the woman intended to say (Cynthia MacGregor)
• Gentile: Ceramic squares in the men's shower rooms (Stan Kegel)
• Insane: Swimming in the river in Paris
• Homogenous: A brilliant gay (Stan Kegel)
• Free will: what a lawyer writes up for you without charge. (Doug Drill)
• Flycatcher: Zipper (Stan Kegel)
• Robust: Ancient torturous method of propelling a boat by leaning overboard and moving your bosom through the water. (Cynthia MacGregor)
• Coincide: What you do when it starts to rain.. (Paul Dickson)
• Advil: experimental community where residents pay no property taxes, but every square inch of sidewalk and wall space is filled with billboards and other commercial come-ons. (Washington Post)
• Horse sense: A sure sign of a stable mind. (Very Punny)
• Boxer Shorts: Film clips of famous pugilists. (Joseph Leff)
• Urinal: The one place where all men are peers. (Dan & Paula)
• Bobby Socks: What British policemen wear on their feet. (Joseph Leff)
• Advice: Phone book pages for massage parlors and escort services. (Stan Kegel)
• Bathing Suit: A female garment cut to see level. (Sandy Sibert)
• Formally Attired: Your condition after waking up from a nap. (Gary Hallock)
• George Washington Carver: The man who performed the autopsy on the first President of the U.S.A. (Judy K.)
• Jail: Arrest home. (Gail S. Angel)

• Friday, 25 May

  • Locical Methods in the Humanities

    Noon in Room 60-62-J
    
    Sherri Roush (UC Berkeley)
    Knowledge of Logical Truth
    

  • Linguistics Department Colloquium

    15:30 in MJH 126
    
    Scott Schwenter (Ohio State)
    Dialogicality and Negation
    

  • Weekly Social

    17:00 in the department lounge. Gourmet delights from the QP Fest Committee!.
  
  
• Monday, 28 May

  • University Holiday



• Tuesday, 29 May

  • Syntax Workshop

    17:30pm in MJH 126
    
  Tatiana Nikitina (Stanford)
  The Mixing of Syntactic Properties and Language Change
  (Dissertation Proposal Talk)
  


• Wednesday, 30 May

  • Psychology Developmental Brownbag

    12:15 in Jordan Hall 420:102
    
    Vinod Menon (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
    Cognitive neuroscience of mathematical development


• Thursday, 31 May

  • CSLI CogLunch

    12:00 in Cordura Hall 100
    
    Idriss Aberkane (Ecole Normale Superieure)
    Kinesthesia and Cognition: Towards the Merleau-Pontian Universes
    
  
  


• Friday, 1 June

  • Linguistics Honors Colloquium

    15:30 in MJH 126
    
    

  • Weekly Social

    17:00 in the department lounge. Gourmet delights from the Social Committee!.
  
  

• END OF THE YEAR PARTY is Saturday, June 9. Live Music by Creole Formation and Dead Tongues!Nobody will want to miss it.
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