Monthly Archives: January 2018

The conversion from the Cyrillic to the Roman alphabet in Kazakhstan has proved to be a matter of politics, all surrounding the use of the apostrophe: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/world/asia/kazakhstan-alphabet-nursultan-nazarbayev.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

Why would Trump say he is “like, really smart” rather than simply that he is “really smart”? What is “like” doing in this expression. Read what the experts say: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/why-would-the-president-of-the-united-states-like-tweet-this-way/549890/?utm_source=eb

The use of “pled” vs “pleaded” in a Trump tweet may be evidence of authorship: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/looking-for-the-linguistic-smoking-gun-in-a-trump-tweet/547361/?utm_source=eb More generally, can “forensic linguistics” point to the authorship of Trump’s tweets? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/forensic-linguists-tackle-trumps-notorious-flynn-tweet/547898/