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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Digitizing the OED – 100 typists!
Here is a brief interview with John Simpson, outgoing editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/29/the-oxford-english-dictionary-the-original-crowdsourcer.html
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LOL a “discourse marker”
Linguist John McWhorter argues in his TED talk that LOL is no longer used in its original meaning “laugh(ing) out loud”, but has come to be a marker of empathy with the hearer (used in contexts that are not particularly … Continue reading
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