Monthly Archives: April 2014

On language and oral tradition

http://www.vancouversun.com/Kwakwaka+wakw+songs+preserve+ancient+traditions/9777668/story.html

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A goober with any other name. Here’s an interesting history of trade and vocabulary.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/20/304585019/a-legume-with-many-names-the-story-of-goober

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If I were feeling moody today…

http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/save-the-subjunctive-3/

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Resurrecting a dying language

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/us/in-california-saving-a-language-that-predates-spanish-and-english.html

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Like, how polite is “like”?

By John McWhorter http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/opinion/sunday/like-degrading-the-language-no-way.html

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