Death notices « Arnold Zwicky's Blog

A colleague and I have been wrestling with the question of death notices on Language Log. We have somewhat different notions of what LLog should be, and in my colleague's estimation, death notices are inappropriate, though (regrettably, to this friend's mind) the LLoggers have posted a number of them.

As a contribution to the discussion, here's my list of obit postings on new LLog and this blog; you can find the links by searching on the posting titles. (My own are boldfaced.)

New LLog:

Vi Hulbert (BPo)
Michael Noonan (AZ)
Eleanor Harz Jorden (AZ)
Yuki Kuroda (AZ)
Venetia Phair, namer of Pluto (AZ)
Richard Allsop (BZ)
Nick Clements (EB)
William Safire (BZ)
Dell Hymes (ST, RS)
Manfred Shroeder (ML)
Martin Gardner (ML)
Gösta Bruce (ML)
James J. Kilpatrick (AZ)
Edwin Newman (GN)
Partha Niyogi (ML)
Ellen Prince (ML)
Fred Jelinek (ML)
Ilse Lehiste (AZ)
Bill Shipley (EB)
Max Mathews (ML)

AZBlog (including artists, scientists, scholars, other cultural figures):

Some deaths (incl. George Williams)
Objects of desire (Sylvia Sleigh)
Some deaths of 2010 (incl. Philippa Foot)
Owsley Stanley
George Tooker
Thomas Eisner
Manning Marable
Robert Vickrey
Phoebe Snow
Four deaths (incl. Harold Garfinkel and Kate Swift)

On this blog, I have the liberty of talking about things that have in some way affected me personally, rather than always seeing myself as representing linguistics to non-linguists.