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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Are names rigid designators?
On Mount Desert Island in Maine, people refer to roads with the definite article. So what the street sign says is “Crooked Road” might be mentioned in a sentence as “He lives on the Crooked Road.” This is likely to be how many roads originally got their names, so Birmingham Road in Coventry used to [...]
Pi Day
My method of celebrating Pi Day (March 14) did not involve pizza (“pizza pie” as it is sometimes known in this area), but if it had I could have deployed the Second Pizza Theorem to calculate how much I was eating. A friend points out that since I’ll be living in Europe this summer, I [...]
Install Pragmatics Module
I think I just realized another reason why I don’t like Facebook — it doesn’t work so well with my pragmatics module. I can’t tell what my speech acts actually mean there, and I don’t know how failure to “friend” everyone I know, or lack of response to “notes” or “wall” or whatever that shit [...]
bahhh… oui!