Archive for August, 2008

New and Improved Shirts

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Just a quick update to say that I’ve redone the design for my Better Living Through Syntax shirts. Now it actually looks like a proper X-bar structure instead of a hastily drawn tree-thingy. Check it out!
Keep in mind that the shirt colors there are just examples—you can choose your own. And, as always, if [...]

Posted by Jonathon at 9:11 pm | 2 Comments »

The Newest Fangled Backformation

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

The other day at work I came across a fantastic formation I’d never seen before: “newest fangled.” It was from a speech given back in 1938 by J. Reuben Clark at Brigham Young University, where the law school is named for him.
The speech was pretty formal and serious, so I’m not sure if I [...]

Posted by Jonathon at 9:20 pm | No Comments »