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Bananas and Linguistics

Where was I?

Um. Oh, yes. Latex and Lyx. I’ll get back to that in a moment.

In the meantime, here’s a nice illustration of the difference between competence and performance, interpretability and grammaticality, and the stem and stern of a banana:

“My whole adult life, I never knew the right way to open a banana… and now you do, too.”

(hat tip to Pharyngula)