2.15.2005

Linguistics Band Names & The Patriots

The always excellent Phonoloblog has had two recent postings that warrant comment.

First, Bob Kennedy writes about the appropriateness of this year's Americana-themed Superbowl match-up. Eagles. Patriots. How much more American can you get? He goes on to list some other hypothetical semantic matchups like the Wizards vs. the Magic but he left off a semantic pairing that actually *did* happen AND caused quite a stir: 1995 Word Series: Atlanta Braves vs. Cleveland Indians.

Second, Eric Bakovic writes about linguistically-inspired band names. He's an OT phonologist and I can't help but wonder how he missed out on "Richness of the Bass". Well, I'm calling dibs on the title if I ever get my drums out of storage.
There is also a band (or hip-hop group) that calls themselves the CunninLynguists who have a song on their album "Will Rap For Food" called "Lynguistics".
My favorite lines:

    We're cunning linguists with stunning English.

    Those cats are are square like rubick's cube.

    Y'all know how we do? Actually, you probably don't know how we do.

and I can swear I heard them say something about Grice.
All to the background repition of the word "linguistics" over and over.

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