Archive for July, 2008

Jul 27 2008

Language in Other Words

Published by MissSpelling under Main Floor

  • The Army Institute of Heraldry's page on the AWG shows its shoulder sleeve insignia [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2190">Otatsiihtaissiiststakio piksi makamo ta psswia
  • Then she realized that the headline writer meant rape to be a noun rather than a verb, and she was even more upset.
    Just in case someone wakes up and changes this classic crash blossom:

    The same AP headline ran unchanged in [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2188">AP editors slander authors

  • Listen to the fist
  • Why I disprefer The Dictionary of Disagreeable English to pretty near anything
  • Huang Youyi, chairman of the International Federation of Translators, makes this alarming prediction: "If we [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2185">Chinese Endangered by English?
  • “… but not limited to…”
  • Indefinite descriptions
  • Four women I know — none of whom know one [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2182">-vore extended
  • Sketchy lexicography
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