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All Discussions Tagged 'language' (101)
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 Sex SymbolsFrom the Grammarphobia blog. Q: In a recent radio appearance, you said the idea that “he” can refer to any human being – man or woman – wa… Started by Dallas (on hiatus) |
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18 obsolete words, which should never have gone out of styleJust like facts and flies, English words have life-spans. Some are thousands of years old, from before English officially existed, others c… Started by Dallas (on hiatus) |
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May 7 Reply by Dallas (on hiatus) |
A Man of Many WordsAnother interesting book to add to the list. -- Dallas A Man of Many Words For more than 150 years, writers of all stripes have relied on… Started by Dallas (on hiatus) |
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Singular “they”: everyone has their own opinion / You: a short historySingular “they”: everyone has their own opinion FREDDIE DEBOER, a graduate student and blogger, has just summed up his class project examin… Started by Dallas (on hiatus) |
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Apr 3 Reply by Sean Murphy |
 Soda? Pop? Coke? and over 100 other dialect variations (survey results and maps)http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html One of the 122 questions: 105. What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated b… Started by Grinning Cat |
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Mar 10 Reply by Grinning Cat |
 Rape culture embedded in languageDiscussion of the underlying cause of India's rape culture, and that of mysogenist violence against women worldwide, underlies the role of… Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner |
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Mar 8 Reply by Grinning Cat |
Txtng and the future of EnglishProf. Anne Curzan reassures us that the sky is not falling -- that textspeak is not bringing chaos and anarchy to the language -- and discu… Started by Grinning Cat |
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Who dunnit? The not-so-insignificant quirks of languageInteresting blog post on how language structure can affect perception, or is that the other way 'round? - Dallas Who dunnit? The not-so-ins… Started by Dallas (on hiatus) |
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Feb 24 Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner |
Two layers of languageHow Human Language Could Have Evolved from Birdsong: Researchers Propose New Theory On Deep Roots of Human Speech ... human language is a g… Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner |
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Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain
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Jan 5 Reply by Dallas (on hiatus) |
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