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Word Pardons – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Admissions and Student Aid. Where Your Freshman Class Comes From. Get the 2016 Almanac. How to Be a Dean. Language and writing in academe. July 22, 2014. Image by Jarrett Heather. Weird Al’s Word Crimes video. Now has close to nine million hits, with the thumbs-up outweighing the thumbs-down more than 100 to 1. For those who take debates over prescriptivism in language usage seriously, there’s plenty of material for hand-wringing in the video, as evidenced by Lauren Squires’s perceptive piece. In reading...
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Fancy or Skunked: Is the Wrong Word Sometimes Right? – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Admissions and Student Aid. Where Your Freshman Class Comes From. Get the 2016 Almanac. How to Be a Dean. Language and writing in academe. September 19, 2011. Fancy or Skunked: Is the Wrong Word Sometimes Right? Erin Brenner’s recent post. At The Writing Resource, Nine Words to Avoid in Your Writing, wasn’t about banning words. It was about avoiding the kinds of words that Bryan Garner. Calls skunked : those whose meanings are so controversial they’re guaranteed to provoke reader fury. You know the type.
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How We Speak – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Admissions and Student Aid. Where Your Freshman Class Comes From. Get the 2016 Almanac. How to Be a Dean. Language and writing in academe. February 1, 2013. The journal of the American Dialect Society, is unique, in the old sense of one of a kind. It is the one and only academic journal that focuses on what’s happening with the English language in the United States. And its companion annual monograph,. Publication of the American Dialect Society. The American Language,. In the past year of. For example, ...
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Conversations about the book world. Our staff hails from the greater Ann Arbor area, and many have extensive bookselling experience. Out of over 300 applicants, we carefully selected the most passionate and experienced booksellers, people who have worked previously for both Borders and Shaman Drum and who are engaged and involved within the literary community here. We are so excited to be in Ann Arbor. We are thrilled to be your downtown independent general bookstore. Without a downtown general bookstore...
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Murray's Review of Medical Journalism. The pen is mightier than the scalpel. Guide offers advice for writing about trans people. February 29, 2016. Two Toronto agencies have prepared a guide to help journalists write correctly and respectfully about transgender and gender-diverse people. A Toronto LGBT community centre, and Rainbow Health Ontario. The seven-page document, downloadable here. February 5, 2016. From the Oregon Health and Science University’s colouring book. S Continue reading →. 8216;s medi...
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Killer Compounds – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Admissions and Student Aid. What College Presidents Make. Language and writing in academe. June 24, 2015. English, like many other languages, abounds with compounds. Take two words and join them to create an inseparable unit, and you have a compound. There are compound verbs like. Especially abundant are compound nouns, like. All those are noun noun combinations, but you can have, among others, adjective noun (. Even verb adverb (. Cutthroat, spitfire, pickpocket, and,. You can see her. Port wine) led to.
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Why I’m Asking You Not to Use Laptops – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Admissions and Student Aid. Where Your Freshman Class Comes From. Get the 2016 Almanac. How to Be a Dean. Language and writing in academe. August 25, 2014. Why I’m Asking You Not to Use Laptops. I am far from alone. On the first day of class, students and I spend the first 30-40 minutes learning something new about how language works (in order to set the tone for the class), and then we go over the syllabus. When we get to the laptop policy, I pause and say, Let me tell you why I ask you generally no...
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The End of Irony. Or Not. – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Admissions and Student Aid. Where Your Freshman Class Comes From. Get the 2016 Almanac. How to Be a Dean. Language and writing in academe. May 21, 2015. The End of Irony. Or Not. David Letterman played it straight after 9/11: “New York is the greatest city in the world.”. 8220;What’s all this irony and pity? Don’t you know about Irony and Pity? 8220;No. Who got it up? 8220;Everybody. They’re mad about it in New York.”. The Sun Also Rises. To paraphrase Philip Larkin. Describes a rhetorical device that ob...
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From Newt to Tweet: 2 Decades of Words of the Years – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Admissions and Student Aid. Where Your Freshman Class Comes From. Get the 2016 Almanac. How to Be a Dean. Language and writing in academe. December 12, 2011. From Newt to Tweet: 2 Decades of Words of the Years. As I mentioned in my last post,. The chosen words don’t necessarily have lasting significance. Rather, they provide snapshots of the preoccupations of the years. Nowadays everyone, it seems, has an X of the Year, but. The Bush family has been prominent in those connections. In 1990, when. Newt Gin...
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The Commas Suit Ya – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Admissions and Student Aid. Where Your Freshman Class Comes From. Get the 2016 Almanac. How to Be a Dean. Language and writing in academe. April 29, 2014. The Commas Suit Ya. William S. Burroughs. An interesting Slate piece. Is the sea change in email greeting from “Hi, Name” to “Hi Name.” This is by no means exclusively the province of kids and illiterates. I recently came on this comment on the philosophy blog LessWrong. Malady sees no strong evidence that this trend is spreading to more formal writing...
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