http://www.metafilter.com/tags/whee! Posts tagged with 'whee!' at MetaFilter. Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:54:35 -0800 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:54:35 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/56472/Les%2DPetites%2DPlan0232tes <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/sets/72157594279945875/">Wee Planets.</a> 360&#0176; panoramas warped to look like small planets. The perfect vacation destinations for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_little_prince ">the Little Prince</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56472 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:54:35 -0800 distortion flickr panoramas photography planets TheLittlePrince whee! Robot Johnny http://www.metafilter.com/55523/The%2Dvariability%2Din%2Dthe%2Dwritten%2Dlength%2Dof%2Dphatic%2Dinterjectives <a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/000836.html" title="'That's wonderful,' Keller said. 'And for being the first brave soul to share a story we would like to present you with the Hallmark Blushing Bears.' She held up a pair of white plush Teddy bears dressed in red outfits -- a popular item during this year's Valentine's Day card-buying season. Keller made the bears kiss by pressing their (magnetic) noses together, and a red light inside the female bear's cheeks glowed: a blush. When the other women saw this, they made a sound that is impossible to represent typographically but was approximately 'Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!'">Aw+</a><br><br><a href="http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2006/09/powarrrrrrr-law.html" title="International Talk Like A Pirate Day was everything I could have dreamed of and more. On a whim, I started comparing the popularity of different spellings of the canonical pirate interjection 'ARRRRRR'. I did this systematically, doing Google searches the letter A followed by any number of R's.">Ar+</a><br><br><a href="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/whee/" title="The variability in the written length of phatic interjectives (e.g. 'whee', 'wheeee', 'aah', 'aaah') is of great interest to linguists and computer scientists. In this paper, we examine the distribution of variable-length phatic interjectives on the largest corpus of such words ever assembled: the World Wide Web. By using commercial internet search engines, we can quickly get a rough estimate of the distribution of these words on the internet.">Whee+</a><br><br>Ah, the variability in the written length of phatic interjectives... tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.55523 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:25:29 -0800 Arr Aww interjectives length linguistics phatic variability Whee! y2karl