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Rock, Paper, Scissors, Computational Linguist, Nasal-Ingressive Voiceless Velar Trill, ChomskyA New Game for Every Linguist

Published: July 12, 2013, 12:08 p.m.

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Computational Linguist, Nasal-Ingressive Voiceless Velar Trill, Chomsky\u2014A New Game for Every Linguist; by Phlange Kadigan; From Volume CLVII, Number 3, Speculative Grammarian, November 2009 \u2014 We are almost all quite familiar with the game commonly known as Rock-Paper-Scissors (also known in some circles as Rochambeau), in which two opponents face off, simultaneously choosing a hand shape to represent one of the three eponymous \u201cweapons\u201d. The interest in the game stems from the non-transitivity of the superiority of the weapons. (Read by Trey Jones.)