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| At Merriam-Webster's "A Thing About Words," my guest post on dictionary fundamentalism: |
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| My little ground squirrels! Then again, my Spanish is no bueno, so who knows what I called y'all. |
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| Time to board my plane, mis pequeñas ardillas de tierra. I'll make sure to keep you posted on how many bowties are worn at . |
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| Top lookup: "resilient." Used by OK Gov Mary Fallin, Moore City Mgr Stephen Eddy, and country star Toby Keith to describe the ppl of Moore. |
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| Truly he speaks the wisdom of the goddamned ages. |
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| David Brooks's take on text analysis is unpersuasive. Wrote a blog post last August critiquing both of his sources. |
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| If you're going to , holler so I can preemptively apologize for offending you with foul language in my PPT presentation. |
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| WOOT! RT : Oh, yes! Linguistic Atlas of Late Middle English is now online: (h/t several people) |
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| Excited about in Athens, GA, where there will be plenty of un-ronic bow ties and dictionary miscellany galore. |
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| I was just getting around to reading that. Thanks, , for the shout-out! |
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| The news out of Moore is horrifying. Give here: or here: |
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| Aw, thanks! It was great to talk to you in Dallas. Hope the teaching goes well! |
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| And was given a totally ignorant reply. No judgment here. |
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| But, you know, not a linguist/barely speak English let alone Finnish/etc. |
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| Yes, though I think the question was actually whether Finnish was phonetic. Which is diff. in my mind than "phonemic." |
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| Whoo hoo! Congrats again! |
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| A colleague just asked me if Finnish was phonemic. I will not lie: I had to look up "phonemic." |
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| But, you know, I'm not a sailor and I may be mis-condensing these defs. |
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| According to the UD, it looks like pilots are essentially helmsmen while captains run the whole ship (nav and operations). |
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| The judge has no sense of humor. Petition denied. |
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