Posts Tagged ‘linguistics’
And the Winner Is…
It’s that time again. Not Thanksgiving, or Christmas-in-November, or even the Election from the Black Lagoon. No, it’s the most exciting event of all – the wonderful moment when Oxford Dictionaries announces its Word of the Year! After a pretty rough year so far, we could all use something to celebrate and here it is:…
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The next time you’re ready to begin a rant about these kids today, you might want to add this to list of youthful transgressions: Millennials are driving a language trend that could result in the demise of the period. That’s right, those young people are managing to pose a threat to proper punctuators everywhere with…
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