linguist languages

Ben Zimmer New 'On Language' Columnist: New York Times Magazine Names William Safire Successor

posted by www.huffingtonpost.com | 12 march 2010

...s Magazine has named Ben Zimmer its "On Language" columnist. Zimmer, described in the Times' announcement as a linguist and lexicographer, succeeds William Safire, who launched the column in 1979 and wrote it through his...

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Louis XIV's Secret Wife

posted by www.huffingtonpost.com | 10 march 2010

Fly High & Fall Benedetta Craveri , Translated from the Italian by Miranda Robbins The New York Review of Books The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon by Veronica Buckley Farrar, Straus a ...

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'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz'

posted by www.huffingtonpost.com | 9 march 2010

The Wizard Daniel Mendelsohn The New York Review of Books "Avatar" a film directed by James Cameron 1. Two hugely popular "mashups"--homemade videos that humorously juxtapose material from different sources--that are ...

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Cartoon: Mommy, Where do Hashtags Come From?

posted by www.readwriteweb.com | 28 february 2010

You know those time-lapse videos that compress days, weeks or years into minutes? The ones with flowers budding, blooming and then withering in seconds? Or late-1990s Silicon Valley startups getting venture capital ...

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cartoons

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'Twitter' Is the Most-Used Word of 2009

posted by www.asylum.com | 30 november 2009

Filed under: Celebrity , Happy Hour Hero , News Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Over the past 11 months, "Twitter" has been the most popular word in the English language. The Global Language ...

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barack obama, 

barackobama, 

global language monitor, 

globallanguagemonitor, 

michael jackson, 

michaeljackson, 

obama mania, 

the king of pop, 

thekingofpop, 

twitter

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Malaysian Writing in English is Dead!

posted by thebookaholic.blogspot.com | 16 october 2009

Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam declared Malaysian writing in English dead yesterday at a press conference to publicise the Singapore Writer's Festival , held at MPH Midvalley (about which more later) : We should be looking ...

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malaysian authors, 

shirley lim, 

malaysian poets, 

wong phui nam, 

building a writng community, 

malaysian english

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Nobel Prize in Literature Announced Tomorrow: Oz And Oates Are Favorites

posted by www.huffingtonpost.com | 8 october 2009

STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel's Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, especially after the most prominent judge broke from his predecessor and s ...

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NYR: Who's In Big Brother's Database?

posted by www.huffingtonpost.com | 5 october 2009

...pal listening post for the region did not have a single linguist proficient in Pashto or Dari, Afghanistan's t...oficient in Pashto or Dari, Afghanistan's two principal languages. Agency recruiters descended on Fremont, Cal...

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Art, Science and Simulation

posted by architectural-approach.blogspot.com | 31 august 2009

By Mario Rosaldo The insistence of the critique of architecture, of scientist trend, on stating its ideas by means of a terminology formally comparable to the scientific language is nothing new at all. In general, it ...

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critique, 

architecture, 

belief and reason

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