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  1. commoner: James L., in a comment on Mark Liberman's "Concerning" posting: "The second thing to say is that it's com... http://bit.ly/7VvHXD about 3 hours ago from twitterfeed
  2. The Full Liberman: On The Lousy Linguist, blogger Chris takes on a media report on "The Healthiest Way To Fight Wit... http://bit.ly/5ElRp5 about 6 hours ago from twitterfeed
  3. Concerning: Reader Ileana D. asks about the use of concerning to mean "giving cause for anxiety or distress", in ex... http://bit.ly/4P8WTE about 9 hours ago from twitterfeed
  4. Phrase rage: Fans of "word rage" may be interested in the collection of responses that Stanley Fish got to his call... http://bit.ly/6y5S9F 11:35 AM Nov 24th from twitterfeed
  5. The texture of time: Even educated fleas do it: [Attention conservation notice: this post wanders a bit too far int... http://bit.ly/6PlxBt 7:20 AM Nov 24th from twitterfeed
  6. Going quant: From "Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception?" by Anand Giridharadas (New York Times/International Herald... http://bit.ly/7OeHPd 10:37 PM Nov 23rd from twitterfeed
  7. Hacking: who does what to whom?: A couple of days ago, Jesse Sheidlower wrote to me about the recent climate-scient... http://bit.ly/79rOuE 8:00 AM Nov 23rd from twitterfeed
  8. Questions and conditionals: Decades ago, when I was little, I read this joke in Mad Magazine: Do your feet smell? ... http://bit.ly/73kJ1h 10:36 AM Nov 21st from twitterfeed
  9. How things have changed…: In today's Stone Soup, Val tries to catch up: The previous few strips sketch her moti... http://bit.ly/7iqfWt 5:29 AM Nov 21st from twitterfeed
  10. The implications of excessive praise: Yesterday's Sally Forth: One of the standard cases of Gricean implicature i... http://bit.ly/1xzMpR 6:17 AM Nov 20th from twitterfeed
  11. co-brothers-in-law: Suppose that Edward is married to Susan and Michael is married to Susan's sister Judith. Edward ... http://bit.ly/OrWaM 6:24 PM Nov 19th from twitterfeed
  12. Just one word after another…: Yesterday's Get Fuzzy: And today's: Personally, I find that I get better results ... http://bit.ly/Ff5gh 1:12 PM Nov 19th from twitterfeed
  13. Does marriage exist in Texas?: From Dave Montgomery, "Texas marriages in legal limbo because of constitutional amen... http://bit.ly/3YUrAN 10:04 AM Nov 19th from twitterfeed
  14. Another tribute to Dell Hymes: When Sally announced the sad news of Dell Hymes' recent death, she thanked him for h... http://bit.ly/3Earj5 9:07 AM Nov 18th from twitterfeed
  15. Don't Try This at Home!: In a "Fresh Air" piece (audio, text) that aired today, I reprised a couple of the cases of ... http://bit.ly/r8ZXv 10:28 PM Nov 17th from twitterfeed
  16. Bilingualism in Singapore: Within the short space of eight months, Singapore's founding Prime Minister and current ... http://bit.ly/1fy3RY 3:34 PM Nov 17th from twitterfeed
  17. Oxford W.O.T.Y. 2009: unfriend: We've been remiss in not linking to the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word o... http://bit.ly/sKs9I 12:29 PM Nov 17th from twitterfeed
  18. Spamalot: In my recent go rogue posting, I reported a comment on an earlier posting from Daniel Gustav Anderson on ... http://bit.ly/3FZtU3 8:43 AM Nov 17th from twitterfeed
  19. Faults "intollerable and euer vndecent": I haven't read Jack Lynch's The Lexicographer's Dilemma yet — all I know... http://bit.ly/2hOAdI 7:19 AM Nov 17th from twitterfeed
  20. Dell Hymes: I just heard that Dell Hymes died peacefully in his sleep last Friday (13 November 2009).    Linguist... http://bit.ly/2HgUsS 2:55 PM Nov 16th from twitterfeed
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