tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59059402011-11-01T21:57:05.876+01:00WordPundit is a blog relating to the world's languages and to the written word.Andis Kaulinshttps://profiles.google.com/106901752017172381157noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905940.post-10702192511149413862011-01-08T20:18:00.000+01:002011-01-08T20:18:18.245+01:00

Sean D. Hamill at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes that the American Dialect Society has selected its word word of the year 2010: "app" it is.

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 We got this from the Oxford University Press: "Word lovers, you’ve been waiting 12 long months for Oxford to announce the new Word of the Year, and it’s REFUDIATE! An unquestionable buzzmaker in 2010, the word refudiate instantly evokes the name of Sarah Palin, who tweeted her way into a flurry of media activity when she used the word in certain statements posted on Twitter. Critics

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On Words | Brain Pickings: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

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World Wide Words: Bafflegab: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

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Concision is discussed at The Smart Set in A Brief History by Ryan Bigge"Ours is not the first society to value an economy of words.Less is more.Omit needless words.Brevity is the soul of wit.Offer very little information about yourself."Read the rest about concision here.

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Words. Words. Words.Google Books has a special page for Legal Analysis relating to Google Books and copyright law.Our photo shows the sculpture "The Word" at Groote Markt, the marketplace in Sint-Niklaas, capital of Waasland, Flanders, Belgium,the largest such marketplace in the country:Google Books is a wonderful information resource which can assist greatly in determining whether to buy a book

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Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (Podcast)Russell Frank's blog Spankly FreakingAway With Words and WordworkingDave BrondsemaThe Wunder Blog and their Daily Bug posting titledBalking TackwardsVKpediaThe Grumpy Old Man has some Pedantic Moans in this direction and gives a nice list of SpoonerismsGoonerisms Spalore! has a list (Parental Guidance recommended)Joho the Blog has an

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Um ... er .... ah. Having trouble speaking or writing? Do you suffer from lips of the stung? Do you sometimes write there for their? You are not a loan. The process of communication by words is beset with surprising linguistic obstacles.Micheal Erard is "a journalist who writes mainly about language at the intersection of technology, policy, law, and science." He has a new book out Um...: Slips,

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The following is our book review of Jim O'Donnell's book, Wordgloss : A Cultural Lexicon , which we have reviewed at Amazon.co.uk:"Was this the wish of the Demiurge? Boston to Washington DC is a conurbation! Cui bono?! Do we live in a lexical dystopia awaiting a thaumaturgic gloss revival? Who today knows that "pleonasms are tautologous and should be avoided"? Errata need not be repetitive - a

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Charles McGrath in his exceptional New York Times article Word Freak, informs us about the remarkable poetry of Paul Muldoon. McGrath writes:"Just about everyone except Muldoon thinks his poetry is often difficult. When I suggested to him once that his work is sometimes hard to follow, he shook his head and seemed almost offended. “I’m not all that keen on the idea that every poem should be full

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Dana Sanchez at The Herald in Bradenton, Manatee and Sarasota, Florida (thank you Bradentonians for this tip) has an article "Using a language that works: Jargon makes the business world go round", reviewing a book documenting business jargon, written by auto salvage magnate Ron Sturgeon and entitled "Green Weenies and Due Diligence". It is an education..

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Well, we have said it along about the humanities, and now it has hit the world in general.Via email from Bradenton, Florida (thank you) containing snips of articles in The Herald, we discover that The American Dialect Society (ADS) in its 16th annual words of the year vote, has chosen "truthiness" as the Word of the Year 2005, i.e. as the word best reflecting the year 2005. According to the ADS:"

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WebCorp is part of a linguistic search engine developed by The Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES).RDUES, "based in the School of English at UCE Birmingham, is a small team of corpus linguists, software engineers and statisticians. We carry out applied research in corpus linguistics, developing new descriptions of the language in use and tools for the extraction and

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Word Magazine - Entertainment and Music Via Blognor Regis: "I read every issue of the music monthy Q Magazine from January 1990 through to this spring when I'd finally had enough of the constant top 100 this, that and the other polls. I'm not sure whether I've outgrown the magazine or whether the magazine has gone downhill. I think the latter because the editors of Q back in the day, Mark Ellen

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Working With Words - Blog The blog Working With Words carries the following description: "A weblog devoted to spurring a conversation among those who use words to varying degrees in their daily work. Hosted by John Ettorre, a Cleveland-based writer and editor...." This blog is a great addition to any blog roll for its postings on the literary world of writing and reporting. We would, however,

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The blog Kuro5hin has a posting by rtmyers entitled Introduction to Tibetan Orthography, showing the problems which are raised by convoluted systems of word orthography but also being a nice discussion of Tibetan, including its relation to Sanskrit.

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Finally, a tool to end all disputes about whether a Scrabble ® word is legal or illegal and whether the dictionary being used is the right one or not. Go to The Scrabble Rack. Plug in a word. The column (frame) at the right tells you whether the word is legal or illegal.

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Mother Tongue May Be Older Than Many Think (washingtonpost.com) The clueless linguists keep looking for the mother tongue of Indo-European in Turkey (Anatolia) rather than in places like the Baltic or elsewhere IN EUROPE or Central Asia where the Balts may originally have come from. Funny, the Turks today do NOT speak an Indo-European language.

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Pholph's Scrabble GeneratorMy Scrabble© Score is: 17.What is your score? Get it here.

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Berlin Blog is on the blog roll of our main site, Law Pundit. The reason is not only because the blog owner has a legal background, but because she writes so beautifully. A good sample is found to close out the year at Oh, right. The Poop. "There are eight or so teenagers in my house. They have been here since Friday. Plus my brothers. And their wives. I have lost two posts, and my mind. At

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TheAge.com.au brings us a review by James Button of the book, Death Sentence, The Decay of Public Language, by Don Watson, in which language is seen - to quote TheAge - as "being mangled by the globalising forces of obfuscation". As written by Button, "The book charts how "managerial language" has infiltrated the English of politics, business, bureaucracy, education and the arts." And as Watson

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One of the best sources for technical terms - words - in the digital age is from The Computer Language Company which has a copyright to the TechWeb TechEncyclopedia.

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Transblawg has a link to the blog Nicht-alle-Tage Buch by Bettina Winterfeld (in the URL anitteb is bettina backwards) and Kai Becker which has the motto: "Sinn und Unsinn aus dem Übersetzer- und Computeralltag". Nicht-alle-Tage-Buch is a very nicely designed log with some excellent links in the translation area - but you must be able to speak German to read this blog.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes - The Quotations Page: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr."

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One of the readers of my LexiLine site sent me a question for information about the Occitan language. Here is a link to the best short general online site I could find on Occitania and the Occitan, including a map of the territory in which the language is spoken. A fine scholarly treatment is found at the Stanford Rosetta Project. See also Folkworld Provencal The Occitan Language vs. the

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We read at Word Herders.net: Word Herders: "The stark contrast of black ink on white paper occasionally lead some to believe that words are static, passive animals, frozen in the lines of their imprinting. This is a misconception. Words are mobile creatures. They come in a variety of forms - angry sputtering, sighed eloquence, sharp wit. Their crisp outlines belie their intricate, puzzling

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