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| Duran Adam: Another Turkish word is entering the international lexicon: "duran adam", or "standing man". Andy... |
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| A new mixed language in the news: Lately we've seen a number of hair-tearing Language Log posts (including a c... |
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| Recency effect record?: Martyn Cornell: Check out the comment from sportzzzgirl at the link below, “Strange de... |
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| At last, a split infinitive in The Economist: The Economist has demonstrated several times that it would rathe... |
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| Ambiguously arthrous band names: Below is a query from Garrett Wollman, which I'm putting up as a guest post f... |
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| Çapuling: (Apologies for being slow in taking account of this important neologism.) Connor Adams Sheets, "What... |
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| R.I.P. Ward Goodenough: Bonnie L. Cook, "Ward H. Goodenough, 94, Penn professor", Philadelphia Inquirer 6/15/2... |
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| One more from Bert: From Bert Vaux, following up on "U.K. vs. U.S. usage in Lee Child", 6/13/2013: I just fini... |
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| Quoth the maven…: From Jeff DeMarco: Don't know if you saw this, but it seems appropriate. I don't seem to be ... |
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| Tap water water: From a friend who is travelling in Japan: JAPANESE inryousui to shite mo goriyou itadakemasu ... |
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| Linguistics Goes to Hollywood: On April 19, the Linguistics Department at UC San Diego (aka the Extreme Southw... |
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| Significant (?) relationships everywhere: While we're on the subject of maybe-meaningful data-mining output, l... |
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| High-altitude ejectives: Caleb Everett, "Evidence for Direct Geographic Influences on Linguistic Sounds: The C... |
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U.K. vs. U.S. usage in Lee Child: From Bert Vaux:
I was just preparing a facebook post on the use of "luck out... |
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| Gene/culture co-evolution: Recommended reading: Simon Fisher and Matt Ridley, "Culture, Genes, and the Human R... |
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| Long is good, good is bad, nice is worse, and ! is questionable: Sanette Tanaka, "Fancy Real-Estate Listing, F... |
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| General Tso's chikin: The following photograph was taken at a Springfield, Massachusetts restaurant named “Nip... |
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| Economist still chicken: botches sentence rather than split infinitive: I have commented elsewhere on the fact... |
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| Ask Language Log: "differ to"?: Trevor Butterworth, "Top Science Journal Rebukes Harvard's Top Nutritionist", ... |
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| Mandarin by the numbers: As spectacularly demonstrated by this YouTube video, it is amazing how much one can s... |
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