Plucked these zygotelodes of wordgold out of news. First one was the snagger and’s best, but la second is great, too. The thirder just had the fuzz-feel of fiction. Look:

1. Some sun gazers only sun gaze during the so-called safe hours
2. Manek…claims that since June 1995 he has lived only on sun energy and water. Occasionally for hospitality and social purposes he drinks tea, coffee and buttermilk.
3. “After arriving in a village where he lives, I saw a barefooted man standing on the porch. He was wearing a bright orange dress with the sun embroidered on the chest. The man’s face looked otherworldly, his eyes glistened, and a smile crossed his face. He moved about easily and seemed to be barely touching the ground. He did not have no sunken cheeks nor bags under his eyes. His skin was glowing from inside as if he were a happy teenaged girl”.

From issue 502 of Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words newsletter:

AGNOTOLOGY Over on another list, Joel Berson noted that this word appeared in an article about corporate responsibility in the New York Times last Tuesday. Agnotology is the study of culturally- induced ignorance. It was created by Robert Proctor, Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and first used in another article in the same newspaper in 2003. Ignorance, he says, is frequently not just the absence of knowledge but the result of cultural forces, such as media neglect or corporate or governmental secrecy, suppression and manipulation, as well as a result of our selective memories, inattention, and forgetfulness. The word is from Greek “agnosia”, ignorance. He need not have bothered to create it, since the Oxford English Dictionary has “agnoiology”, first recorded in 1856, for which its second definition is “that department of philosophy which inquires into the character and conditions of ignorance”

Up on a spawntainteous G-search, the discovery of The Association for Mathematics of Language.

Following intriguers ‘tracted from the Publications from MOL Meetings bibli (which includes the Special Issue on the Mathematics of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy)

• Ambiguity Under Changing Contexts
• Mild Context-Sensitivity and Tuple-based Generalizations of Context-Free Grammar
• An Application of Typed Label-Selective Lambda-Calculus to Formal Grammar
• Is HPSG Featurelss or Unprincipled?
• Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning
• \”Grammarless\” Phrase Structure Grammar
• Characterizing Learnability Conditions for Cue-based Learners in Parametric Language Systems
• Parsing Schemes with Entropy Indicators
• Tore Emptiness, Membership and Regular Expressions for Tree Homomorphic Feature Structure Grammars
• Resource-based Semantics to Categorial Semantics
• Optimality Theory and Generative Complexity
• The Relation between Tree-Adjoining Grammars and Constraint Dependency Grammars
• Compositionality: Similarity versus Interpretability
• A Dependency-based Approach to Bounded & Unbounded Movement
• Agreement Modalities
• Bubble Trees and Syntactic Representations
• Local Tree Description Grammars
• An Exploration of Some Extensions of Tree Adjoing Grammars
• Towards a Model-Theoretic Characterization of Indexed Grammars
• Generative Capacity Matters
• An Efficient Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Context-Free Languages
• Parametric Types for Typed Attribute Value Logic
• A Polynomial Model for Unrestricted Functional Uncertainty
• Separating Dependency from Constituency in a Tree Rewriting System
• Some Algebraic Properties of Higher Order Modifiers