Están locos estos Americanos

El otro día encontré en un blog sobre lingüística algo que me recordó a los chistes que hacía mi profesor de cálculo de primero de carrera (Vicente Montesinos). Solo le van a ver la gracia mis compis de carrera, pero bueno...

Seriously, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to update the old joke about the out-of-work physicist who took a job as a consultant to a dairy cooperative, and produced a report that began "Consider a perfectly spherical cow, radiating milk isotropically." I have an agent-based model for social convergence on shared word pronunciations that I've been meaning for a while to extend to cover dialect development. "Consider a herd of markovian cows, generating moos randomly..."