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Johnson: Lexical clean-ups
LAST week Johnson picked his Word of the Year for 2013. And now that the holiday guests are gone and the house is finally clean again, it’s time to look at the mess left behind, and do a little sorting of the lexicon. People rather like end-of-the-year “Worst Words” columns, it seems. Timothy Egan chipped in […]
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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/72875287561
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Language police, smart babies and linguistics online – languages news round up
A round up of languages in the news finds that babies can detect different languages, a boom of online language learning and the French aren’t happy about a particular English abbreviation More than 100 million people are going online to learn a language Writing in Wired, the co-founder of Babbel, a language learning tool, explains […]
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Stuck in amid hell with you | Mind your language
The word ‘amid’ is scarcely used at all in spoken or written English. Why, then, is it so popular with journalists? “Hi, Brian! Where’s Sophie?” “Sophie and I have split up amid rumours of an affair.” “Why are you talking like that?” “This conversation comes amid revelations that I’ve landed a job as a subeditor.” […]
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Danglers Ahead
Danglers in their various forms are one of our most common grammatical lapses. Participle phrases, “like” comparisons, appositives and other modifying constructions generally must be adjacent to the noun or pronoun they refer to. Otherwise, they dangle — and leave a clumsy or confusing sentence. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/danglers-ahead/
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Why student fieldtrips make an impact
Ayona Datta offers six reasons why the impact of teaching fieldtrips goes beyond students and deserves to be counted Impact in recent years has become the most dreaded and controversial concept that has taken over both the Research Excellence Framework (REF) – how university funding and the fate of academic careers is measured – as […]