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If you're interested in this sort of thing, http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics is worth subscribing to also. One of the better sub-Reddits.

Subscribed a long time ago. :)

But yeah, it's probably one of the best subreddits I subscribe to.

I agree with your sentiment. My concern is that this is essentially academic linkbait :P

Fair enough, I don't disagree entirely. ;)

> no inane Silicon Valley inside baseball

I think that a lot of this does have value to people on this site. If you're going to be involved in the SV community, it's important to stay up-to-date on the "inside baseball".

Though you have to admit that a lot of the conversation in SV sounds like a lot like armchair quarterbacking, and is about as relevant...

There are quarterbacks in baseball now? Now I'm confused.

(Seriously, though: let me just put in a plug for the Language Log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/) which is full of juicy linguistic discussions. Worth it just for the eggcorns.)

That's why I qualified it with "inane". :)

The usual frontpage hits are often so formulaic that the parodies write themselves.