Tag: linguistics
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August 02, 2008 08:50 PM EDT --
What is the dominant accent in the United States? (Most TV
Newscasters use it).
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August 31, 2008 06:45 PM EDT --
Words, words, words. They can be soothing, melodious, enlightening, and welcomed. Or they can be barbaric, and pernicious, whether oral or written.
I have compiled a short list of words . . . more
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September 09, 2006 07:43 PM EDT --
This urban story is about a dignitary visiting Cambodia who wanted to learn a couple of sentences in Khmer to say during his speech.
He wanted to say, in Khmer:
"I am looking forward to helping . . . more
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March 05, 2007 12:03 PM EST --
It seems as though many are being very critical of the fact that Hillary Clinton adopted a southern drawl during a speech at an African American church in the south. In fact, it’s become the topic . . . more
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January 26, 2008 11:30 AM EST --
Glottal stops and labial fricatives and Grimm's law. Jeez, no wonder more people aren't into linguistics! Why does everything have to be made more complicated than it needs to be . . . more
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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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July 10, 2006 01:18 AM EDT --
J.P Mallory posits in his book, "In Search of the Indo-Europeans," that Common Slavic, sometime between 400-900 AD broke into several related but distinct variants, most notably Eastern Slavic, . . . more
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March 10, 2007 01:55 PM EST --
The word "doable" has struggled for acceptance in the more English-Majorly circles. Attaching the suffix "able" to a word ending in an "o" creates an odd bipthong, and . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 06, 2008 11:31 PM EST --
Much as I find tidbits like this interesting, It reminds me why linguistics was my minor and not my major. That is: would it pay the rent.
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Campbell: "The morphological . . . more
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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 . . . more
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January 27, 2008 07:54 PM EST --
Yesterday, I did a post Comparative Linguistics for Beginners . It ended with a little exercise, and I said I would post the answers. You were to find the words in column . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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, and . . . more
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December 17, 2007 08:19 PM EST --
As a self-proclaimed grammarian, I find that many of the words used in today's society to be, at best, confusing and, at worst, indecipherable. There is, however, hope for those of us who are not . . . more
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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. . . . more
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April 13, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
OK. Today is Sunday. Most of us went to church today. I will
Leah and I went to my church today (LDS), next week we go to hers (Presbyterian) because there is a wedding during the . . . more
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October 26, 2006 05:21 AM EDT --
I have received three requests to address the issue of the oft misused phrase, "beg the question." By coincidence, my son in law recently complained to me, bitterly, that many of his students . . . more
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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 . . . more
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