MetaTalk posts tagged with languagehat

Christ, what a prumphænsn!

not_on_display — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:25:06 -0800

Hey, has anyone mentioned that MeFi's Own™ languagehat's book, Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses from Around the World, was published in the US this July? [review | review | interview | lh's blog ]

Languagehat: please do it like this.

Meatbomb — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:59:52 -0800

I beseech languagehat here, publicly: please, my brother, try to be nice? In this thread, a guy who is an authority on archival storage (sonascope) is in the middle of a fight with languagehat. I really like lh and look forward to his insights. It makes me feel bad when he presents his point of view in a way that gives the impression he is belittling other members of our community and does not value them as equals. Even if you are smarter than others here, we are all people who want to feel included and respected. It is a fairly regular occurrence. I won't dig out more examples, anyone who has been around here knows how lh can get when he decides to do that thing he does. Languagehat, please could you be aware that sometimes your contributions increase the negative energy on the site? Could you try to turn up the volume on the love and peace? If you try to do that it will make me very happy.

LanguageHat on PRI

SteveTheRed — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:18:19 -0800

Did anyone else hear LanguageHat on PRI's The World? He was talking about his swearing book. My only question is where the fuckety-fucking-fuck was the MeFi callout?

Who is the real Languagehat?

Mo Nickels — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:49:55 -0800

Languagehat revealed! Who is he? An insider tells all in his explosive new book! In a post on his blog, Languagehat reveals himself as the author of a new book and gives his real name there for the first time.

Woman: fetch food.

fish tick — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:28:21 -0800

This AskMe seems to be raising a kerfuffle, understandably. It's a very polarized subject; perhaps worth bringing to the attention of those who don't frequent AskMe? languagehat made a quite worthwhile comment.

All the news that...

jokeefe — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:06:41 -0800

Huh. So the blog of a certain Mr. Language Hat is linked in the sidebar at the Village Voice books section (under "Bookmarks") now? Is this old news? Did I miss something? Cheers for Mr. Hat, in any case.

I come not to praise Caesar but to make some salad dressing

y2karl — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:43:24 -0800

I would like to say something nice about languagehat.