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Four blogs on language and linguistics 26 Aug 2013 | 04:44 pm
Today I want to briefly mention* four language/linguistics blogs that deserve your attention and might not have broached your radar. Actually I linked to Glossologics lately, but there’s lots of new ...
The slangy business of bird-dogging 22 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Steven Bach’s book Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate, is a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of a notorious film that effectively brought down the United Artists (UA) s...
Ms., Mrs., and Missing options 19 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
Ms. was coined as a title for women analogous to Mr. for men, implying nothing about marital status. In this respect it is crucially unlike the traditional forms Mrs. and Miss. In a recent post, ling...
On caring less, and a new abbreviation (Ћ) 15 Aug 2013 | 01:30 pm
I have a couple of new posts up at Macmillan Dictionary Blog. Do we need to abbreviate ‘the’? looks at a recent orthographic innovation: Ћ, intended as a one-character symbol for the. If there were a...
Raymond Chandler on storytelling and style 4 Aug 2013 | 03:02 pm
I’ve begun reading Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, an anthology of 23 Marlowe stories written by different crime/mystery authors plus one by Chandler himself (‘The Pencil’). It was edited by Byron ...
The referee itself 3 Aug 2013 | 04:32 pm
In Barry Blaustein’s wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat, then-WWF supremo Vince McMahon has just given Darren Drozdov his new character name, Puke, and is explaining how he’ll be introduced to the a...
Two profane, two obscene 3 Aug 2013 | 02:43 pm
Here’s a fun passage in Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Gutting of Couffignal’, a great story that opens The Big Knockover and Other Stories (whose colourful crooks’ names I listed recently). Skip the first p...
And I’m like, Quotative ‘like’ isn’t just for quoting 1 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
A few tweets from earlier today, to introduce and summarise the topic: Critics of quotative "like" ("I was like" ≈ "I said") aren't looking closely enough at the phenomenon. It's not a lazy or trivia...
Punctuation support group 1 Aug 2013 | 12:44 am
“Support”, by Tom Humberstone: [click to enlarge] I love Exclamation Mark’s happy bafflement, and the last two frames tie the strip together very nicely (though for comic timing and pathos I’d have ...
Link love: language (56) 30 Jul 2013 | 08:24 pm
It’s been a month, more or less, since my last set of language links. Here’s the latest batch of articles and videos I’ve enjoyed in recent weeks, or unearthed from further back: * Glossologics, a v...
