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Posts from the ‘language’ Category

11May 19, 2010Nisht geshtoygn un nisht gefloygn

9March 28, 2010When a dog is not a Dogge

17December 7, 2009On English (and other dialects of Sanskrit)

15November 25, 2009“Sex” or “gender”?

11October 22, 2009The Economist’s coequal humo(u)r

14October 18, 2009Uniting the two kinds of enlightenment

2August 5, 2009Spunky language in the search for truth

10August 4, 2009Bad writing about white oral sex

6June 19, 2009The spoken and the written word

7May 27, 2009The hip, swinging world of lexicography

3April 18, 2009What’s in a word: Rostrum

2April 6, 2009Learning history through language

6April 5, 2009The Blogging Sutras

2March 13, 2009It’s all Greek to me

7March 11, 2009Fear and the English Language

18February 24, 2009Obama and I; Obama and me; Obama and … myself?

17February 22, 2009On, overdoing; it–with punctuation (and such).

5December 15, 2008What’s in a word: “Liberal”

3November 23, 2008Back to irony

0November 14, 2008Casanova, aged 11, discovers wit