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The definitive guide to Trolls - 7 views

ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php Trolls
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  • James Ha on 19 Oct 11
     
    A comprehensive analysis of the behaviors of different troll species.
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Language style matching: The language of happiness | The Economist - 1 views

www.economist.com/...language_style_matching LSM relationships
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  • Lisa Stewart on 17 Oct 11
     
    contains links to two scholarly essays, including how the tool was developed and used
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People Who Became Nouns: The Music Video - 0 views

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  • Ryan Catalani on 16 Oct 11
     
    Fun video. "Finding your name in the dictionary as a noun is a sure-fire litmus test for having made a impact on culture and history. Just look at OED-approved fine folks like Charles Boycott, Samuel Maverick, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, Henry Shrapnel, and Lord Cardigan. But there are unsuspected downsides to being reduced to a noun - just ask suffragette and women's rights pioneer Amelia Bloomer, now equated with a baggy pair of women's underpants."
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The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations - 1 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC2778755
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  • Ryan Catalani on 15 Oct 11
     
    "Explanations of psychological phenomena seem to generate more public interest when they contain neuroscientific information. ... The neuroscience information had a particularly striking effect on nonexperts' judgments of bad explanations, masking otherwise salient problems in these explanations."
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Bzzzpeek - 3 views

www.bzzzpeek.com
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  • Ryan Catalani on 14 Oct 11
     
    "bzzzpeek is presenting a collection of 'onomatopoeia' from around the world using sound recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of mainly animals and vehicles"
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Linguistic Contributors to the Gender-Linked Language Effect - 0 views

jls.sagepub.com/...81.short gender
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  • age variables displaying effects consistent with the Gender-Linked Language Effect, seven were more indicative of male speakers: impersonals, fillers, elliptical sentences, units, justifiers, geographical references, and spatial references. Greater use of the other seven variables was more indicative of female speakers: intensive adverbs, personal pronouns, negations, verbs of cognition, dependent clauses with subordinating conjunctions understood, oppositions, and pauses. These clusters of male and female contributors to the effect are discussed in terms of potential underlying communication strategies.
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Deception detection from text - 6 views

stealthserver01.ece.stevens-tech.edu text_analysis deception
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  • Lisa Stewart on 14 Oct 11
     
    text analysis tool for detecting deception
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Game Geek's Goss: Linguistic Creativity of Young Males in an Online University Forum - 3 views

www.swinburne.edu.au/...V3N2-2-Blashki.pdf 1337-speak
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  • James Ha on 14 Oct 11
     
    "Leet is a highly metatextual language characterised by increasingly complex layers of signification with each subsequent use of the term coined in the discussion and constant reference within the word itself to its previous iterations: "
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Twitter's self-deprecation revolution - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 7 views

www.bostonglobe.com/...story.html hashtag twitter
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  • Lisa Stewart on 14 Oct 11
     
    "Among Twitter's triumphs is the reinvention of self-mockery. By hijacking a feature known as the hashtag, Twitter users have found new ways to inject tiny packages of self-directed sarcasm into their tweets."
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The Art of the Self-Mocking Hashtag : Word Routes : Vocabulary.com - 6 views

www.vocabulary.com/...2982 hashtag twitter snark online
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  • Lisa Stewart on 14 Oct 11
     
    Ben Zimmer is a linguist
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