While browsing language-related blogs, I came across this, which links to this, which the author of the aforementioned blog used to generate this. It looked fun, so I had a go and generated this. I limited my colour choices to the standard selections (no arbitrary RGB values) lest it become tedious and boring (and a tad too silly).
Because this is something I found done on another blog and then decided to do myself, I guess it counts as a meme. Nobody told me to do it, though, which is nice. And yes, I’m well aware of the deliberate irony behind the website, having been to Germany and all.
Incidentally, the reason why I was browsing miscellaneous language-related blogs in the first place is that, what with Language Log having recently moved and been redesigned, I thought it would be a good time to visit all of the blogs in Language Log’s sidebar. Having now looked through all those blogs I can announce that, in my opinion, the best and most consistently interesting one is the Cognition and Language Lab (which I’ve now added to my sidebar).
Now, while I’m here I might as well tell you some of my miscellaneous news.
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