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Stan Carey has introduced me to the new blog Caxton. I’ve been browsing through some of the more recent entries, on topics such as reflexives and whether relative that is a relative pronoun, and I’ll be putting it on the blogroll. Various news outlets have been picking up a story about how some linguists have […]
Are Mariah Carey And Miguel Collaborating On A New Single & Video?
OK guys, here’s one of those connect-the-tweets stories that Stans are so good at tracking down. Based on a series of tweets from people working with and for Mariah Carey, it would appear that Mimi is collaborating with Miguel on her new single and accompanying music video. A couple weeks ago, Carey tweeted that she... More »
USAGE PEEVE BINGO.
Last year, over at Stan Carey's Sentence first, I jovially commented, in response to one of those "Let?s try to preserve the English language" people, "Congratulations, I think you?ve filled out your Peever?s Bingo card completely!"Show More Summary
MYSTERIES OF VERNACULAR.
Stan Carey writes:Mysteries of Vernacular is a fun and admirable project from Myriapod Productions comprising short animated films about etymology. Each film sketches the history of a word in the form of a story lasting a couple of minutes. There...Show More Summary
FECK!
I've long been aware that the Irish use feck a lot, and I had the vague idea that it was just a Hibernian equivalent of fuck. Not so! Stan Carey explains:Feck is a popular minced oath in Ireland, occupying ground between the ultra-mild expletive flip and the often taboo (but also popular) fuck.... Show More Summary
Perfect Timing
Having been away from the internet much of the summer, I found it a wonderful coincidence that, upon checking in with some of my favorite blogs, Stan Carey's recent Link Love post on Sentence first included a link to an interview with David Crystal. Show More Summary
Commantary
AT the Macmillan Dictionary Blog, Stan Carey has a nice post on commas. For the life of me I've never understood why some people think that their personal comma preference is linguistic law. There are those who think the "Oxford comma"...Show More Summary
GODWOTTERY AND ROFLING.
Via Stan Carey's latest link love post, a couple of tidbits I can't resist passing on: 1) Michael Quinion explains the unusual and bifurcated term godwottery, which can mean either "the employment of deliberately archaic vocabulary"Show More Summary
Moviemash
Chimpanzee journey 2 safe cabin in the woods.
This picture, posted by my cousin on Facebook, reminded me of Stan Carey's bookmashes.
I especially loved my cousin's comment: "I would see that movie in a heartbeat."
Thanks for the fun, Kristin.
You can't say that
STAN CAREY has a sensible post today on his dislike of the idea of "banning words". Many a writer has earned the Curmudgeon Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster by penning a list of detested clichés or fashionable words that are henceforth (somehow) "banned". Show More Summary
STANDARD ENGLISH.
Stan Carey has a nice post on standard English and "bad grammar," in which he explains that "The particular English dialect that began to be adopted as standard more than half a millennium ago came from the UK, mostly the region encompassing...Show More Summary
Whom do you trust?
DO YOU love "whom"? Stan Carey's exhaustive post on the case-marked pronoun says almost everything to be said on the subject, quoting everyone from those who put their foot down for "whom" to those who insist that the sooner "who" fills its last functions, the better. Show More Summary
The abbrevs are my plezh
FOR those alarmed at yesterday's peeving, today's post will be a celebration of teenage slang. A few posts in the linguablogosphere have recently checked in on teenage shortenings: Stan Carey ("Ledgebag is totes amaze") here, and Ben Yagoda ("Totes cray-cray abbrevs") here. Show More Summary
Summer Links
A thorough investigation of the history of different from/than/to from Stan Carey. The hilarious linguistics love song (h/t to Stan Carey) Another blog post from Stan Carey, this one linking to no less (uh, fewer?) than four websites that allow you to easily type and display IPA characters. I’ve put all the stuff I got [...]
anti-Americanismism, part 2
As promised, here's my reaction to the second half of the BBC's list of 'Your most noted Americanisms'. Since part 1, many others have weighed in on that BBC piece, including Stan Carey, Not From Round Here, and on the BBC website (huzzah!!) Grant Barrett. Show More Summary
MORE ON COLORS.
I've posted recently on color idioms and color name sites; here are a couple more color-related tidbits. 1) Stan Carey has a post about a Scientific American article by Melody Dye on "why it?s so difficult for kids to learn words for...Show More Summary
GETTING THICK.
Stan Carey at Sentence First has a post about an Irish use of thick I wasn't familiar with, to mean "angry, argumentative, sullen, or belligerent."It?s a versatile usage that often collocates with get and is typically associated with moody or petulant grumpiness, and sometimes with drunken antagonism. Show More Summary
TOLKIEN AS CONLANGER.
Stan Carey has another excellent post at Sentence first, about J.R.R. Tolkien?s "deep interest in language"; I urge you to read it and savor Tolkien's anecdote about "a little man... in a dirty wet marquee," a fellow soldier during WWI...Show More Summary
??[love]
According to Stan Carey at Sentence First: ??[love] is written and sung by Christine Collins, a writer and self-described time traveller [Doctor Who fan] from the U.S. She describes it as “a convenient, terminology-dropping, non-gender-specific...Show More Summary
RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION: HOW IT WAS ENFORCED.
Stan Carey has another fine post at Sentence first ("An Irishman's blog about the English language") discussing John Honey's 1989 book Does Accent Matter? The Pygmalion Factor. He has some excellent quotes and anecdotes (one of which...Show More Summary
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