The linguist of my latter post, Geoff Nunberg, blogs at Languagelog, a really interesting site for linguists. I wonder if his frustration for blogging style comes from the fact that he is blogging at a group blog. Group blogs are inherently more journalistic in style than personal, even personal/professional, blogs. In my dissertation proposal, I suggested comparing the language in group blogs to look for differences in style (i.e. conversational patterns embedded in mental space/cognitive blending theories). It would be interesting to compare the girls at misbehaving.net and the guys at languagelog (yes I know that there are two women listed as contributors, but a scroll down the main page has shown that only one woman has contributed?and only two times. This is a site overwhelmingly contributed to by men.)

disclaimer: I have nothing against either the linguist Nunberg or LanguageLog (a very good site, in fact). I just disagree with his comments on Fresh Air (see post below).