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"Texting Can Have A Negative Effect On Linguistics"

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Is It Too Much To Ask To Simply Fire People From The IRS?

Business & Finance : Business Insider: Clusterstock (9 hours ago)

Under the headline, " Yes, heads should roll at the IRS," Ezra Klein points out that, at the very least, "A number of IRS employees developed criteria that was politically biased both in appearance and in effect. They were reined in... Read Post

Linguistics at the BBC, socio this time

Linguistics / Grammar : Mr. Verb (5 years ago)

Reader E.G. has passed along a truly baffling link from the BBC, called:Perceptions 'affected by accent'Accent could affect how intelligent people are thought to be, a new study suggests.To many linguists, that headline is roughly... Read Post

Language = words = spelling, etc.

Linguistics / Grammar : Mr. Verb (last year)

When you see this headline in the Wall Street Journal, you might get nervous if you're a linguist (the WSJ piece is here and the article it discusses here:The New Science of the Birth and Death of WordsHave physicists discovered the... Read Post


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