Here come the twits

In brief:

• 10:03 congrats @stancarey on the @wordnik #secretwordwednesday win! #
• 12:05 drug pregnant women to avoid gay daughters? this. will. not. end. well. #WTF #bravenewworld strn.gr/4357221 (via @skud) #

I often use twitter to mention what's happening or linkdump. I LT here for posterity.

"Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up."

Higgledy piggledy:
Frederick Jelinek,
speech recognition
director of note's

reputation for cranky
is likely deserving
at least among linguists
by anecdote.

the audience for this is probably very very small.

ETA: (15 Sep 2010): Frederick Jelinek has passed away; his curmudgeonry will be missed in our community.