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More Style Choices
In our recent stylebook revisions, we have accepted as standard a few forms that until now were still treated as colloquial or informal. In some cases, these changes just formalize what we had already been doing in practice. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/more-style-choices/
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Language quiz: the answers | Mind your language
The winner of £100 worth of books from the Guardian Bookshop and a signed copy of For Who the Bell Tolls: One Man’s Quest for Grammatical Perfection will be announced soon, along with five runners-up who also win signed copies. Thanks to everyone who took part 1. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the committee chair, said “an […]
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Research funding emphasis on ‘impact’ spawns a new industry
In their bid to secure funding under the terms of the Research Excellence Framework, academics are drafting in writers and consultants to make them and their work more accessible Mrs Peabody was never expected to play such a key role in Swansea University’s languages department, especially as she is imaginary. Invented by Katharina Hall, associate […]
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Tradition versus progress
IN “Village at the End of the World” the stark and dramatic scenery of Niaqornat, a remote community in north-west Greenland, is so mesmerising it is easy to forget that the Inuit village may be doomed. Among the village’s foes are climate change, a dwindling local economy and the allure of the digital world. When Sarah […]
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How a lexicon for cheese gave researchers a headache
Is your cheese cowy, catty or brothy? Researchers devote their efforts to finding the right words of description The 21st century, at its birth, saw cheese researchers in something of a frenzy trying to solve the industry’s great language problem. The problem is this: say what you will, the taste of a cheese is hard […]
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/66376067815