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A study in Philadelphia has shown that the speech of AAVE speakers is very often mistranscribed in court. For example, “The cop partner been got transferred”, where “been” indicates an event in the distant past, was transcribed “The cop partner, … Continue reading →

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/gemstone-crystals-found-in-teeth-of-11th-century-nun-sheds-light-on-womens-role-in-creating-medieval-religious-texts

This article takes a balanced view of this grammatical “mistake”: https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/12/05/why-do-i-really-really-want-to-say-had-went/?fbclid=IwAR3UHeRFyAemzFEcdlDP-5zgA8q-K5Pz6hiN2SQF0VtF4pWfSPRMpic8bRw

Surprisingly, it’s Telugu, a Dradivian language of southern India: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45902204?fbclid=IwAR3MGj0g1J0jHX9-wX6MVJgfoCrsgN1MiVj003Gd-pKu8gJKP5JACmD4xlo

The term Latinx has been invented as a gender-neutral alternative for Latino and Latina. It has met with considerable controversy. If it is accepted, what will this mean for other languages with grammatical gender? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/09/14/latinx-an-offense-to-the-spanish-language-or-a-nod-to-inclusion/?utm_term=.cd96023148f7

While technically datum is singular and data is plural, usage seems to be changing, with data now more often treated as a singular collective noun: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/594aj8/its-time-to-end-the-data-is-vs-data-are-debate

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/why-mistranslation-matters.html

https://theconversation.com/what-the-early-church-thought-about-gods-gender-100077

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/sports/sports-cliches-metaphors.html