Archive for category: Linguistics
- Concordance of Word of the Year 2009 entries (2009.12.22)
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What’s the American word of the year? Birther. What’s the word of the year, period? Birther. And here’s why
- ‘Kʰahster’ Semenya (2009.12.17)
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Two paralinguistic observations about Ariel Levy’s endless feature on Caster Semenya in the New Yorker
- Spaced (2009.12.03)
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No, Caleb Crain, wordspaces are not strictly necessary.
- Ignitpick (2009.10.16)
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Ignite Toronto is making the same mistakes in its second outing it did in its first. Also: Why can’t computers read the Goof sign?
- Talking with the taxman about how to spell ‘poetry’ (2009.09.18)
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The Royal Bank of Canada has trouble spelling the word practise
- Keep your pyjamas on, Howard (2009.09.17)
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Excitable city councillor Howard Moscoe goes a bit overboard complaining about Microsoft Word’s anglicisms
- Xenolinguistics of ‘District 9’ (2009.08.25)
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Why didn’t the alien language work on District 9? Because we cannot conceive of what we cannot conceive
- Speech errors of famous authors (2009.05.17)
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David Mitchell has never heard of a blog. “Literary… blocs?”
- South African exolinguistics (2009.05.03)
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How convincing does the alien language in District 9 sound? (And look?)