Monthly Archives: August 2014

Robin Williams, suicide, and “getting it”

Posted on August 13, 2014 by nkrishna

Robin Williams, who starred in many formative movies of my childhood and released comedy that had my high-school friends and I in stitches, took his own life this week. He’d struggled with alcohol and drug addition, and severe depression, and … Continue reading →

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Book Review — The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

Posted on August 9, 2014 by nkrishna

Author: David W. Anthony Publisher: Princeton University Press My first love in linguistics is probably the historical variety.  But no one will pay me money to do that so I do all this computational stuff instead.  Still, historical linguistics and … Continue reading →

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