Language Log: The protective bloom of ignorance
I have often stressed the point to my students: it is not your ignorance that interferes with your education in this subject; it's the very opposite. It's the fact that you are a highly intelligent...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Asian Speech and Italian Text
One of the most interesting papers at an interesting conference was Michael Newman, "Identifying native English speaking Pacific Asian Americans by voice". His abstract begins: Research on racial...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Strictly incompetent: pompous garbage from Simon Heffer
"The problem with people who want to impose their linguistic tastes on others," says David Crystal, "is that they never do so consistently." I'm not so sure I agree that's the problem. Consistency...
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