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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/65699048239
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Stop saying ‘the global race’
Stop it. Stop saying “the global race”. It sounds like a round-the-world yachting competition. It is stupid, implying a zero-sum situation in which if China gets better we have to get worse. And it’s boring. You’ve used it a million times. Stop saying “hard-working people”, or, God forbid, “hard-working families”. It is cruel and exclusionary […]
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Pit your wits against David Marsh’s fiendish language quiz
Test your knowledge of the famously tricksy English language (and some classic Guardian howlers) with these posers set by our style guru, David Marsh David Marsh Media: Mind your language | theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/competition/2013/nov/01/language-errors-quiz-david-marsh
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A Note to Readers
The stylebook revision gave us an opportunity to take aim at some perennial usage problems, nagging missteps that are staples of After Deadline. We’ve added a handful of new warnings in hopes of cutting down on these repeat offenses. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/new-warnings-for-old-problems/
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Unreliable research. Trouble at the Lab (The Economist 19th Oct 2013)
Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not Oct 19th 2013 |From the print edition “I SEE a train wreck looming,” warned Daniel Kahneman, an eminent psychologist, in an open letter last year. The premonition concerned research on a phenomenon known as “priming”. Priming studies suggest that decisions can […]
