Languagehat gets a plug on Slate.

April 14, 2006 10:18 AM

Languagehat gets a plug on Slate.
posted by small_ruminant to MetaFilter-Related at 10:18 AM (49 comments total)

Good on him.
posted by y2karl at 10:20 AM on April 14, 2006

Woo! A tip of the hat to our 'hat! Nice.
posted by scody at 10:24 AM on April 14, 2006

Whoa, cool. Next step: written into Doonesbury.
posted by COBRA! at 10:28 AM on April 14, 2006

I believe my kudos can only be properly summed up in the following sound file.
posted by dgaicun at 10:38 AM on April 14, 2006

Huzzah! So, about that microphone, Mr. Hat...
posted by cortex at 10:39 AM on April 14, 2006

Rad!
posted by freebird at 11:04 AM on April 14, 2006

He deserves it.
posted by furtive at 11:19 AM on April 14, 2006

So are we going to buy him a microphone? Get to podcastin' languagehat!
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:20 AM on April 14, 2006

很好!
posted by kcm at 11:21 AM on April 14, 2006

I have it on good authority that pressure is being even know applied to our Hat to undertake such an endeavor.
posted by cortex at 11:24 AM on April 14, 2006

We knew Languagehat before he was famous!

He told us our posts sucked.
posted by LarryC at 11:39 AM on April 14, 2006 [1 favorite]

Kudos! And for the record, I still think that he should be referred to as "Mr. Hat".
posted by gsteff at 12:15 PM on April 14, 2006

Yikes—I checked my referrer logs and every single visit was from Slate. Better vacuum the place and change out of this ratty t-shirt... Oh, and my technical advisors are even now explaining to me what this "pod-casting" thing involves; in my day we used string and tin cans, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually.

*casts a few pods experimentally*

Thanks for the sound file, dgaicun; I'll have "Movin' On Up" blasting as I vacuum!
posted by languagehat at 12:20 PM on April 14, 2006

in my day we used string and tin cans,

It's more or less the same thing now, but they use really big cans, like the ones in the back room of the high school cafeteria.
posted by jonmc at 12:23 PM on April 14, 2006

好啊！
posted by delmoi at 12:32 PM on April 14, 2006

Nice.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 12:43 PM on April 14, 2006

languagehat's extremely cool, too bad most of his blog stuff flies high above my head. and the Slate plug is really cool. tanto di cappello.

coming soon: languagehat webcam, 24/7 hot academic action
posted by matteo at 12:48 PM on April 14, 2006

What is a "plug on slate", anyway?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:52 PM on April 14, 2006

a small Microsoft-made dildo
posted by PenguinBukkake at 12:56 PM on April 14, 2006

Languagehat gets a plug on Slate.

Aha! So he always wears the hat because he needed plugs? But why'd they only give him one?

Congrats, LH! Let's hear it for from you!
posted by soyjoy at 1:04 PM on April 14, 2006

I originally found Metafilter through reading languagehat and languagehat is one of those contributors whose comments I always read. Very much deserved.
posted by Falconetti at 1:08 PM on April 14, 2006

languagehat webcam, 24/7 hot academic action

ooh, linguist-on-linguist?!
posted by scody at 2:26 PM on April 14, 2006

Irregardless of the several times he's taken me to task for this and that here, I've always thought languagehat was one of the best things about MetaFilter. Grats.
posted by y6y6y6 at 2:44 PM on April 14, 2006

Irregardless. Heh.
posted by cortex at 2:47 PM on April 14, 2006

ir·re·gard·less
adv. Nonstandard
Sometimes used humorously.

Oh, I get it now, y6y6y6 was making a little joke to see if the usually nonjudgmental Mr. Hat would take him to task yet again.
posted by Cranberry at 2:49 PM on April 14, 2006

Encore!
posted by nthdegx at 3:12 PM on April 14, 2006

languagehat is just all over the web being helpful; I especially like his language-uncovering annotations in the Pepys Blog!
posted by By The Grace of God at 3:22 PM on April 14, 2006

languagehat don't pay no nevermind to no "irregardless" seeing as he's all about language is evolving and whatnot. He ain't no prescriptivist hater and shit.
posted by TimeFactor at 3:38 PM on April 14, 2006

"a small Microsoft-made dildo"

Slate's owned by the Washington Post, nowadays.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:52 PM on April 14, 2006

Just cuz'n you buy a vibrator don't mean you made it.
posted by cortex at 5:09 PM on April 14, 2006

Fabulous, Languagehat! Onward & upward!
posted by cybercoitus interruptus at 5:47 PM on April 14, 2006

Huzzah for language geeks! :)
posted by Pontius Pilate at 5:49 PM on April 14, 2006

Kudos.
posted by Gator at 6:06 PM on April 14, 2006

He's really got an awesome blog.

And he's got some awesome hats, too.
posted by blacklite at 6:46 PM on April 14, 2006

Congrats.
posted by ericb at 6:53 PM on April 14, 2006

מזל טוב, לנגואג'האט
posted by felix betachat at 1:40 AM on April 15, 2006

+1!
posted by Wolof at 3:49 AM on April 15, 2006

Nice!
posted by amro at 5:28 AM on April 15, 2006

matteo writes "too bad most of his blog stuff flies high above my head"

That's at least partly why I like it. Eminently readable, often difficult, always enjoyable. I'm an infrequent but regular visitor and agree that M. Hat deserves accolades, plugs, riches and a microphone. languagehat makes MeFi a better place too. Thanks 'hat.
posted by peacay at 6:26 AM on April 15, 2006

Slate's owned by the Washington Post, nowadays

I know, but Microsoft left so many dildos behind, it's not even funny
posted by PenguinBukkake at 6:26 AM on April 15, 2006

Nice going, lh!
posted by Miko at 6:39 AM on April 15, 2006

מזל טוב, לנגואג'האט

Ooh, ooh, I get it, it says "Mazel tov, Languagehat!"
posted by ludwig_van at 8:28 AM on April 15, 2006

Bricka bracka fire cracka shish boom bah!
Languagehat, languagehat, rah rah rah!
posted by goatdog at 10:21 AM on April 15, 2006

"מזל טוב, לנגואג'האט"


Dammit, felix betachat, why'd you have to go and give my cursor the extra horizontal pixel thingy?
posted by dersins at 10:35 AM on April 15, 2006

I *heart* languagehat.

And the fact that matteo (who I also secretly *heart*, in spite of the fact that I often wish he'd spend his time pushing a wet rope uphill...) is giving the props just underscores why this place is Teh Cool.
posted by Cyrano at 1:52 PM on April 15, 2006

Word up, languagehat! :D
posted by Lynsey at 1:57 PM on April 15, 2006

Just remember: his hat may be full of language, but he's full of shit.

:P
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:05 PM on April 15, 2006

But it's high-grade shit!
posted by languagehat at 3:54 PM on April 15, 2006

It's about damn time!
posted by OmieWise at 5:52 AM on April 17, 2006