Naming

A Smurf Based Approach to Placeholder Expressions

A Smurf Based Approach to Placeholder Expressions

Bruce Ediger

I read an interesting paper:

A Smurf-based Approach to Placeholder Expressions, July 2021, by Manfred Sailer and Annika Dörner

which apparently appeared in:

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Online (Berlin/Seattle), 2020.

Flavored Triangles

Flavored Triangles

Bruce Ediger

This is from a package of “Tostitos” brand corn chips, “Hint of Lime Flavor”.

Harvest Cheddar

Harvest Cheddar

Bruce Ediger

Every autumn, cheese farmers rise before the sun, and work until well after sunset, to gather in their bounty of cheddar!

Eyes Without A Face

Bruce Ediger

Outside magazine, maybe in 1981 or 1982, ran an editorial saying that GPS systems would soon be cheap enough to be in the hands of the average outdoors person/backpacker, and how would this change the outdoors experience?

Nameless here for evermore

Bruce Ediger

Have you ever tried to reproduce some text that contains a typo? That is, you try to type in some text that contains mistakes, for purposes of mocking whoever produced the original, mistake-laden rubbish?

You know how hard that is?