“ In “Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals”, Alan Turing remarks that “mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. ”

“Linguistics relies on intuition and analytic insight, but intuition in linguistics is the ultimate source of knowledge. The competence-performance division means that speakers may not always produce perfect, well-formed utterances in practice but they can always judge well-formedness using their intuition. Since linguistics is interested in modeling linguistic competence, intuition is a weird blackbox that we can draw on for empirical information, but ultimately we want to reverse-engineer and understand the intuition-blackbox and this is where ingenuity comes into play. The confluence of intuition and ingenuity is what makes the field so elegantly robust and pleasantly difficult.”

-tristn

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“ …expect 80% of the ideas in an essay to happen after you start writing it, and 50% of those you start with to be wrong… ”
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Retrofuturistic Thing of the Day: French illustrator Stéphane Massa-Bidal, AKA Rétrofuturs, has designed a set of sweet vintage-style covers for nonexistent books on popular web services.
Check them out here.
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newsweek:thedailywhat:

Retrofuturistic Thing of the Day: French illustrator Stéphane Massa-Bidal, AKA Rétrofuturs, has designed a set of sweet vintage-style covers for nonexistent books on popular web services.

Check them out here.

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“ In one way or another, we’re all anchored to the book. A library is a metaphor for human beings or what’s best about human beings, the same way a concentration camp can be a metaphor for what is worst about them. A library is total generosity. ”
— Roberto Bolaño (via felled) (via libraryland)
Photography Exhibit at ArtSpace on Sixth to Showcase Scottsdale Community College Student Images – December 21 through January 2
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photo by  William C. Kaesche II

Photography Exhibit at ArtSpace on Sixth to Showcase Scottsdale Community College Student Images – December 21 through January 2

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photo by  William C. Kaesche II

South Mountain Community College presents
Stella Pope Duarte“SHORT DAYS, LONG NIGHTS AND REWRITES”A Free Workshop for WritersSaturday, December 12, 9am-12pmSU100ABCIn a magical burst of creative energy, participants will be treated to a panoramic view of the writing process.  In her own indomitable style, Stella Pope Duarte will draw on story, humor, memoir, and tall tales to boldly breathe life into the maddening world of words. Bring notebooks and pens. Writers of all levels are welcome.Join in this exhilarating experience!South Mountain Community College/Student Union7050 S. 24th Street, PhoenixRSVP to SMCC English Dept.(602) 305-5771
sue.aroz@smcmail.maricopa.edu
Admission is free!
image via www.stellapopeduarte.com

South Mountain Community College presents

Stella Pope Duarte
“SHORT DAYS, LONG NIGHTS AND REWRITES”

A Free Workshop for Writers

Saturday, December 12, 9am-12pm

SU100ABC

In a magical burst of creative energy, participants will be treated to a panoramic view of the writing process.  In her own indomitable style, Stella Pope Duarte will draw on story, humor, memoir, and tall tales to boldly breathe life into the maddening world of words. Bring notebooks and pens. Writers of all levels are welcome.

Join in this exhilarating experience!


South Mountain Community College/Student Union
7050 S. 24th Street, Phoenix
RSVP to SMCC English Dept.
(602) 305-5771

sue.aroz@smcmail.maricopa.edu

Admission is free!

image via www.stellapopeduarte.com

Struggling to find just the right words for your final essay?  Try using Visuwords, an online graphical dictionary that allows you to discover the meanings of words and find related terms.  The program allows you to move individual nodes to clarify relationships between words and even color codes terms according to parts of speech.  

Now there’s no excuse for a boring research paper.

Struggling to find just the right words for your final essay? Try using Visuwords, an online graphical dictionary that allows you to discover the meanings of words and find related terms. The program allows you to move individual nodes to clarify relationships between words and even color codes terms according to parts of speech.

Now there’s no excuse for a boring research paper.

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Add a little Chomsky charm to your lawn.  

“Garden Noam Chomsky

Featured in The Nation’s charity auction, this Garden Noam Chomsky sculpture, of a run ‘probably limited to less than 100.’”

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Add a little Chomsky charm to your lawn.

“Garden Noam Chomsky

Featured in The Nation’s charity auction, this Garden Noam Chomsky sculpture, of a run ‘probably limited to less than 100.’”

Via Boing Boing

“ Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ”
— Joan Didion (via karigee) (via coyotesqrl) (via morrowplanet)

Dickens understood the importance of revision. Do you?

The New York Times has posted a high-resolution copy of the manuscript for A Christmas Carol. By clicking on a toggle button, you can compare the handwritten and typed versions of this classic.

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“ Are men smarter than women? No. But they sure think they are. ”
“ A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. ”