Author Archives: arnovick

The IE numbering system we inherited for English not a linguistic universal?

https://theconversation.com/anumeric-people-what-happens-when-a-language-has-no-words-for-numbers-75828

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Snap images creating a linguistic revolution: or, language vs communication.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/technology/snap-makes-a-bet-on-the-cultural-supremacy-of-the-camera.html

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Happy Holidays!

http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/135936899661/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-in-anglo-saxon

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Speaking to an audience: a case study of Clinton’s speeches.

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Are song lyrics poetry? A Canadian English professor considers Bob Dylan.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/bob-dylan-is-the-most-important-literary-artist-of-our-time/article32360119/

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Loss of the period; changing punctuation

Linguist David Crystal predicts the loss of the period: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/world/europe/period-full-stop-point-whatever-its-called-millennials-arent-using-it.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1

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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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The language of marriage from a Queer perspective

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/fashion/i-now-pronounce-you-husband-and-husband.html?_r=0

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More on the Oxford word of the year from the popular press.

http://eedition.toronto.24hrs.ca/epaper/viewer.aspx

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Earliest known copy of the King James Bible discovered.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/books/earliest-known-draft-of-king-james-bible-is-found-scholar-says.html?_r=0  

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