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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Evidence for literacy long long ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/middleeast/new-evidence-onwhen-bible-was-written-ancient-shopping-lists.html
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Who is likely to be a grammar pedant?
Is your image of a grammar pendant an elderly school marm? Well, a study by Robin Queen has shown that gender, age, and education play little role: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/29/grammar-pedant-personality-type?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Teens are not ruining our language!
In a forthcoming book (Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, see http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/teen-talk-language-adolescents), Sali Tagliamonte of the University of Toronto, examines teen talk. She is interviewed in this article from the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teen-talk-book_us_56fc44dde4b0daf53aeea341 Note, however, … Continue reading
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