Archive for category: Linguistics

‘The Prodigal Tongue’    (2008.07.13)

I eventually give up reviewing The Prodigal Tongue by Mark Abley

What the hell is wrong with Google?    (2008.06.28)

Jingoistic national stereotypes from Google

A leet too far?    (2008.04.24)

Or: @ 133† †00 ƒ@r?

Note the bumper sticker damagingly applied to a painted surface. Ethnic stereotype?

Barber–Colombo    (2007.11.07)

Q&A with Katherine Barber and John Robert Colombo, mostly about Canadian English

‘Design City Toronto’    (2007.06.16)

A book by Toronto writers about Toronto architecture… written in British English and typeset in Helvetica Light

If you don’t want to take my word for it    (2006.09.29)

Myths about Canadian English, and why your B.A. in English lit does not set you up to do captioning

‘The Hobgoblin of Canadian English Spelling’    (2006.09.11)

130 words that are spelled differently in the U.S., the U.K., and of course Canada

A ‘C’ student from the word “go”    (2006.09.03)

Taking CBC captioning down a notch (how many notches has it got left?), this time with a Robbie Coltrane vehicle