MetaFilter posts tagged with okrent

500 constructed languages.

escabeche — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:03:14 -0800

Amabil amico, Con grand satisfaction mi ha lect tei letter de le mundolingue. Arika Okrent, author of the new book In The Land of Invented Languages, lists 500 constructed languages, from the well-known (Esperanto, Volapuk, Loglan) to the utterly obscure (Neulatein, Rosentalographia, Mundolingue.) MetaFilter's own languagehat reviews the book. Okrent writes about Klingonophones in Slate. Alternatively, you might choose to learn not to speak Esperanto. Previously on MetaFilter, all you wanted to know about Loglan/Lojban but were too syntactically ambiguous to ask.

All the High School That's Fit to Print

Tin Man — Tue, 31 May 2005 09:43:24 -0800

Paul Krugman and Daniel Okrent get into a pissing match. In his final column as New York Times ombudsman, Okrent stated that Krugman, the New York Times columnist, "has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults." The paper gave the two of them some webspace to discuss the matter. The result is catty and entertaining, but the tone is certainly more vicious than I'd expected. They really don't seem to like each other very much.

Does a bear shit in the woods? Of course it does.

pardonyou? — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 08:43:42 -0800

Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is. By Daniel Okrent, New York Times ~~Ombudsman~~ Public Editor. (reg. req'd)