Roundup
Little did I anticipate that a “samurai shampoo” would get a fair hits from people searching Google for it. I’m not sure if they were misguided in thinking (like me, initially) that the show was indeed called that, or if they were actually interesting in shampoo for or named after samurai (or, another possibility, that they wanted to see how many people had made the mistake in thinking that the show was actually called that).
Also, I found out that this site is linked from Yahoo’s linguistics blog directory, which means someone submitted it, I guess (I’m not totally sure how these things happen). Interestingly, this site is a
linguistics and language blog from a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, covering topics from East Asian languages to abuses of English grammar.
It’s not as though every site on the directory has a mention of the (mis/ab)use of English or some other language, though I wonder if it was some feature of my site when the submission was made that led to that description, or if it was sort of a “it’s about language by an academic, so it must be about misuses” sort of thing (of course I’m glad for the link either way). (Hanzi Smatter and The Language Guy, correctly, both get a “misuse” tag, though so does languagehat, and not Language Log, despite explicit commentary on the matter.)
They don’t seem to pay much attention to the page. They note that Fabulousness is “no longer updated” (as of March 25, 2003!), but the same goes for a number of their listings, like the X-Bar and Namu Pa’i ‘Ai; Enigmatic Mermaid has been defunct for almost two years, except for a relatively recent post making it explicit that it is an ex-blog!