09 September 2008

Forensic Linguistics!

I thought this was pretty interesting. [ Source:www.sciencedaily.com ]
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908073841.htm
I know that, as someone linguistically trained, I do sometimes pick up things about people that most other people don't seem to notice. However, it should be said that there are perils about this if the corpus is not big (worth checking this blog post for why).

Now then, when's the television series? And what title would you give it?
Lost Words? Slip of the Tongue? Finding Words? Said and Done?

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