Tag: language
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September 02, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
This article was planned—and it was supposed to have that exact title—many months ago, when a Gather member, Ann Weaver Hart, published one of hers in which she mentioned the word Caesar . . .
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November 19, 2007 09:38 PM EST --
--or has a vowel or consonant in it.
*"In the World" means in any natural or artificial language that exists today in a spoken or written form, including Klingon, Elvish, or the . . .
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September 14, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
As you may have heard, a prominent family of Swabian-Americans "disappeared" from this website yesterday, for reasons unknown, but likely related to the unauthorized use of humor and creativity. . . .
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May 05, 2007 01:45 AM EDT --
Compared to other languages, English is amazingly creative with collective nouns for groups of animals, and efforts abound to make up funny ones for groups of people (and objects.)
Another name for . . .
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December 29, 2007 06:12 AM EST --
Cognitive scientist and experimental psychologist Steven Pinker is well-known for a number of popular science books on language (The Language Instinct, 1994; Words and Rules, 2000), as well as on . . .
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November 22, 2007 03:00 AM EST --
The American Dialect Society is now accepting nominations for the 2007 "Word of the Year."
Their explanation:
Word of the Year is interpreted in its broader sense as “vocabulary . . .
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January 13, 2008 04:12 AM EST --
After nominations from the public, the American Dialect Society voted last week to choose their 2007 Word of the Year .
The Winner is : subprime : "an adjective used to describe a risky . . .
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January 16, 2008 02:33 AM EST --
Not in the US of A either, but in the liberal and multilingual European Union:
A Polish man was banned from speaking his native language to his children after separating from their mother. The welfare . . .
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September 16, 2008 12:49 PM EDT --
When people are obsessed with a topic, they're often like the proverbial man with a hammer who sees nails everywhere: they project this topic into everything that provides an even remotely suitable . . .
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December 27, 2006 12:49 AM EST --
As if “global village” and “globalization” were not enough, here’s another “globe” word to muse and worry about: a recent article by the British paper The Observer . . .
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May 22, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
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A. are of current use and a neutral connotation.
B. are obsolete and most likely to occur in historical legal contexts.
C. are mostly used by racists and white nationalists these days. . . .
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October 30, 2008 02:30 AM EDT --
A number of Gather discussions have taken place recently about what "socialism" means, whether Obama is a socialist, and why the McCain campaign would choose to label him as such. Linguist Geoff . . .
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December 27, 2006 01:03 AM EST --
I have created a new group dedicated to language and "linguistic matters". Check it out here and join if you like. :-)
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June 12, 2007 07:03 PM EDT --
This is a late notice, but wordsmith.org (perhaps best known for their A.Word.A.Day newsletter) is hosting a chat this evening at 6 pm Pacific time (9 pm Eastern, GMT-7) with Anne Curzan, a professor of . . .
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February 06, 2008 02:18 PM EST --
Wordsmith.org is hosting a chat tonight at 7:pm Pacific Time with Seth Lerer, a professor at Stanford University, and author of Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language . The topic is "The . . .
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January 08, 2007 09:20 PM EST --
Last week, in his regular feature on NPR’s Fresh Air, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg announced the winner of last year’s Becky Award.
The "Becky", short for "the Johannes . . .
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January 30, 2008 12:44 PM EST --
While I was sitting in the car listening to the radio on Monday evening, waiting for a kid's taekwondo class to end, I heard something interesting (right before I heard something really boring and . . .
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