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Not enough time for counting (The Economist 23-10-2014)
Oct 23rd 2014, 16:51 BY R.L.G. | BERLIN IS BARACK Obama a narcissist? Charles Krauthammer thinks so, and he should know.
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Word criminal? The web will sentence you (The Guardian 29/8/2014)
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New publication: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014 (Springer)
Chapters by leading scholars in pragmatics and corpus linguistics, amongst others Jacob Mey, Jacques Moeschler, Cliff Goddard, Stefan Gries, etc. Click here for further information on the volume
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If something’s famous, you don’t need to tell people
If something’s famous, you don’t need to tell people; if you need to tell people something’s famous, it isn’t I am, famously, trying to discourage people from using this meaningless, annoying and downright misleading cliche
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The future of Language (The Economist Jun 11th 2014)
The future of language Johnson: English against the machine Jun 11th 2014, 15:38 by R.L.G. | DUBLIN LAST week’s column looked at how machine translation (MT) has—and has not—improved. Free services like Bing and Google Translate can give quick-and-dirty, mostly-correct translations for tourists and the curious most of the time. For professional uses, machine-translated material must be […]