There has been an average of 2.59 comments per blog entry with 6 entries that had significantly more comments than the others:
- Poll had by far the most comments with a total of 14. This is an anomaly though because I had actually asked for people's input on which language I should start learning next. Arabic got the most votes, but alas I have started learning Portuguese and Russian instead. Go figure...
- State of the Union? came in second place with a respectable 12 comments. Don't be fooled by the title of this entry, however, because these 12 comments had nothing to do with the State of the Union address, but rather with the Princess Bride character quiz which I had posted also. Just goes to show that The Princess Bride is far more important and interesting than the State of the Union address.
- I HATE the wind! tied for third place with 10 comments. So it seems that in addition to The Princess Bride, people also like to talk about what the weather was like when they were young.
- Insomnianiac also got 10 comments. There is no really obvious reason why this post got above-average commentary. I think maybe it's just because there were a few different points to comment on, and also because Ding was quick to point out my technological ineptitude..
- Thanksgiving Weekend comes in 4th place with 9 comments, most of which were just an inside joke in Chinese with Da, Vina, and Me, and then my dad having fun with online computer translation.
- And finally, Majorly Linguistic came in 5th place with 7 comments.
Over the past year, I count 8 blog entries that talk about some of my strange dreams, about 15 posts broadly related to linguistics, and 3 posts mentioning my hatred towards wind.
Ok, for today's video we have "Fearless（霍元甲）" by my favorite Chinese (Taiwanese, actually) pop singer, Jay Chou The video has Jet Li in it because it's a song for an upcoming movie (or maybe the movie is already out) with Jet Li in it.
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I, for one, was surprised at the complete absence of any "bootyliscious" in this video pic.
But given your dream-space lately, I'm more consumed with wondering what the relative probability of either of the following might be:
that you start having dreams that are either ...
A - in direct PARITY WITH, or
B - a direct PARODY OF
this Jet Li video??
Please let me know if either of these cases occur and you become a character is this type of dreamscape (or, as you would expect, if you post any more bootyliscious)
What do you mean? The last three videos I've put up haven't had any booty in them, I don't know why you are surprised by this one.
I don't anticipate having any dreams involving Jet Li in the near future, but if I do I'll be sure to blog about it.
I've never seen so much research on a blog about a blog. I only commented on one or two of those blogs with the most comments. What was it that others find interesting and I don't find comment-worthy.
Bootylicious is an adjective. Why is your father using it as a noun?
I blog, therefore I can.
I was also intrigued by the nominal usage of the adjective bootylicious. It just goes to show you how flexible English can be with allowing re-analysis of semantic categories. The next question would be, is it wrong to use an adjective as a noun? A good descriptivist linguist would say no, it is not wrong, simply different...
Haha, I just realized the irony in Dad's rebuttal. "to blog" is itself an almost perfect example of re-analysis of semantic categories. Blog first came to life as a noun being a short version of "weblog," but now it is perfectly acceptable to use it as a verb as well.
Yep, that is what I intended - to provide a common counter-example. And to assert that, since this isn't Wikipedia or anything, I can invent my own version of the truth or whatever anyway ... -- I figured I wasnt likely to get nuked by an over-zealous blog admin or anything, like in Wiki-land.
Anyway, I'm glad Dustin saw the pun ... He doth know me too well ...
Wow, you even got the verb tense and everything right on that "doth" there. Good work! haha. My morphology teacher was telling us the other day about how he's probably the only person in the entire audience at Shakespeare festivals that gets annoyed because the actors are always getting the archaic verb constructions wrong.
Yea, perhaps there is hope for me.
I dont know who said "I think, therefore I am." But the thinly (I think) veiled reference to it was technically a solid 3rd (perhaps my new linquistic record for a 4 word response) interpretation of my rebuttal for why I used bootyliscious as I did. I also noticed that nobody had any trouble understanding what I meant by saying it - a little validation for being non-traditional at least.
I get this game:
I Facebooked you last night.
What up LINGUIST
wow you really think too much about this blogging thing. and the video is for jet li's movie "fearless" out in theatres now. it's pretty decent movie.
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