there was a disastrous performance of Macbeth at the Old Vic by Peter O’Toole and apparently there was this one part in the play one night where a Servant comes in and should say “Your wife, my lord, is dead” but what ACTUALLY happened was
Servant: …My wife, my lord, is dead.
Macbeth: Well, what about my wife?
Servant: Oh yeah. She’s dead too.
Macbeth:
Servant: There’s a lot of it about.
Tag: oh my god
But you run (or take) the risk that your results are merely tentative
Unless you base your corpus on a sample representative!Don’t try a demonstration,
Just register your name.
If not “I saw, I conquered”
You can always say “ICAME”.But if you feel constrained to have your grammar realistical,
Your particles based properly, your lexis authentistical,
Don’t rely on introspection, on the magic and the mystical,
Don’t hope to find a software pack of strategies heuristical,
Just build yourself a corpus (or some corpora) statistical!
Excerpt from How to Dispose of the Body, or The Corpus-Maker’s (Di-)Lemma by Anna Kerr-Luther
In other words, yes, it’s a whole poem about corpus linguistics. ICAME, for reference, is the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English.
(via allthingslinguistic)
I’m so happy they did this song.
My stream kept stuttering so the video is dodgy but it’ll do for now.Fixed!Oh my god. What is this? How do I see it?
So help me god if it’s one of those things that’s only going to stay in New York I’m going to throw a computer out of a window so that the crashy, smashy, shattery noises help to alleviate my frustration.
This is going to be Fun Home all over again isn’t it?
Kimchi and Justice 