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• Will Twitter and SMS Messages Kill Serious Communi...
• Wearing a Burka in Public
• Toyota Apology
• What Was Alan Alda Thinking?
• Is Avatar Racist?
• The iTouch and the myTouch
• The More You Spend The More You Save
• Israeli Linguist A Bit Too Full Of Herself
• The Right Wing Propaganda Machine

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• Language and Linguistics

  • What is Linguistics 
  • Neologisms
  • The Meaning of "Meaning"
  • Weasel Words -- The Modal Verbs
  • Language and Logic
  • Kilpatrick is, like, an ignoramous
  • Parts of Speech -- Nonboring Discussion
  • Incomprehensible Language
  • Language Universals and Language Learning
  • The Origin of Language
  • The Language of Art and Other Nonsense, a somewhat nutty blog
  • Spelling and Spelling Bees
  • Spoken vs. Written Language
  • The Role of Intuition in Linguistics
  • Rock and Roll and Forensic Linguistics
  • Individual Dolphins Have Names?
  • The Defenders of American English are at it again
  • The Oldest Evidence of Writing in the Americas
  • The Olmec Slab
  • The Danger of Metaphors
  • The Language of E-Mail Spam
  • The Meaning of "Winning"
  • On the Importance of Grammar
  • Political Labels as Epithets
  • Language Games in Canada
  • The Big Question: How Did Language Evolve? -- I
  • How Did Language Evolve? -- II
  • The Evolution of Language -- III
  • The Evolution of Language -- IV
  • Public Communications -- Who is the Audience?
  • Jungle Woman
  • The Perils of Sloppy Language Use
  • Reviving Dead Languages
  • Medical Mumbo Jumbo
  • At Our Earliest Convenience
  • Voice Risk Analysis
  • "Nappy Headed Hos"
  • A Note on "Ho"
  • Insane, Blind, and Deaf and Dumb
  • Verbal Chaos -- Naming the Original Inhabitants of Canada
  • How important is language death?
  • Confusing Grammar and Meaning
  • What counts as a mistake?
  • "Retard"
  • Mr. 85
  • Israeli Linguist A Bit Too Full Of Herself
  • The More You Spend The More You Save
  • The iTouch and the myTouch

  • Journalism

  • Unnamed Sources
  • Journalistic Bias
  • Bias in News Reporting
  • Present Tense in Journalism
  • Saying what you mean
  • A Solution to the Problem of Feisty Reporters

  • Advertising

  • "More for Less" Claims
  • "Up To" Claims
  • Weasel Words - Modals
  • "No Alcohol Added"
  • Success through Language!
  • The Great "Net Carbs" Scam
  • Wendy's Artisan Bread: Please Give Us a Break
  • An Advertiser Speaketh with Forked Tongue
  • The World's Greatest Olympian

  • Law

  • Language and Death Penalty -   - I
  • Language and Death Penalty -   - II
  • Interpreting the Constitution
  • Language in the Law
  • Why is Legal Language Impenetrable?
  • Another Witless Linguistic Error by the Supremes
  • Still Another Witless Supreme Court Interpretation
  • A Well-Regulated Militia
  • Al Qaeda, The International Communist Conspiracy, and the Bogeyman
  • Perjury, False Statements, and Obstruction
  • A Reasonable Degree of Scientific Certainty
  • Clarence Thomas Speaks!
  • Do US Prosecutors Have a Sense of Humor?
  • The Supremes Dance With Death
  • The ADA vs the University of Michigan

  • Cognition and Epistemology

  • The Language of Causation
  • George Bush and Mrs. Malaprop
  • Saying You "Know" Something to be True.-- I
  • Saying You "Know" Something to be True.-- II
  • Conspiracy Theories, Science, and Intelligent Design
  • The Use of Simplification in Scientific Research
  • God, Time, Matter, Energy, Causation, and the Universe
  • Gender and Sex -- full circle
  • Thinking in Similes
  • The Language of Time

  • Politics

  • Orwell
  • West Virginia and the English Language
  • Lamguage and Persuasion and Bush's War
  • George Uses a Big Word
  • Bush's Best Case Scenario Thinking Goes Wrong Again
  • Our War President
  • Is the US a Free Country?
  • On the Danger of Criticizing Our Middle-East Policy
  • I'm the Decider
  • Sleeping with Hamas
  • The US may be Joining the French
  • Terrorisim
  • Data Mining
  • Cut and Run
  • Security vs Freedom
  • Does Iraq already have a Civil War?
  • Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, and the Death of Language
  • War and Boredom
  • Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
  • Liberals and the Death of the Democratic Party
  • Mrs. Malaprop Stikes George Down Again
  • Civilian Casualites
  • Is the U.S. the Evilest Nation in the World?
  • It's Republican Lyng Time
  • Domestic Terrorists
  • The Language of Winning and Losing
  • Rummy Says War Critics are Appeasers
  • The Language of Appeasement
  • MInd Bending With Language -- George F. Will
  • Goldberg's Specious Iraq War Argument
  • Kerry's Joke
  • I am in Despair
  • Iraq and the USA: Dueling Conditionals
  • The Vanity of King George
  • 9/11 -- The "Gift" That Just Keeps Giving/a>
  • Hillary
  • Does Iraq Have a Civil War Redoux?
  • A Clean Black Man
  • Supporting the Troops
  • Winning vs Losing in Iraq
  • Why the Democrats Can't Stop the Iraq War
  • Bush and Blair: Liars or Fools?
  • The Petreas Report as brought to you by...
  • On Believing Generals on Active Duty
  • The American Exit from Iraq
  • Bush will lie about Iraq again and isn't even hiding his chicanry
  • John McCain's Temper
  • Gains in Iraq
  • Are We Better Off Overall?
  • Bush's Anti-Terrorist Language Reform
  • America is not America
  • The Privatization of Social Securty
  • Is McCain Stupid, A Liar, or Just Extremely Forgetful?
  • Al Queda #2 Has Alzheimers
  • Barack Obama is a White Man
  • Iran Disinformation in re Israel
  • The Right Wing Propaganda Machine

  • Society

  • I Don't Mean to be Rude, but
  • Bad Words
  • He's My Bitch
  • Sticks and Stones
  • Spanglish
  • Proper English
  • Yes, but...
  • Political Correctness -- A test case
  • More on the NCAA and School Nicknames
  • A Rose By Any Other Name Is Just As Thorny
  • The Last Bastion of PC Prejudice
  • On Protecting the Institution of Marriage
  • More on PC Racial and Ethnic Prejudice
  • The French and Their Language
  • "Hey, Fatso" and Political Correctness
  • Ethnic Profiling, The Police, and Us
  • Do Women Talk Too Much?
  • Correcting Others
  • When an Apology Isn't
  • Barack Obama is a White Man
  • Mental Retardation -- Political Correctness
  • Political Correctness Gone Crazy
  • Is Avatar Racist?

  • Religion

  • Intelligent Design, Stupid People
  • On Some Replies to the Abortion Blog
  • What Constitutes a Human?
  • Christian Nonsense about Evolution and the Bible
  • Why Sciences Cannot Provide the Whole Truth
  • Language and the Abortion Controversy
  • A Note on Intelligent Design
  • A Feeling of Understanding
  • How to Think -- A blog in which I Toot My Horn too much
  • Anselm's Argument for the Existence of God
  • Heaven and Hell
  • The Rebranding of God
  • Are Science and Religion in Conflict?
  • Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
  • Playing God
  • The Christian Right and Ostriches
  • God Spoke Life into Us?
  • The Meaning of Life

  • Miscellaneous

  • Pet Linguistic Peeves
  • A Fun Linguistic Internet Scam
  • Sexism in Language -- I
  • Sexism in Language -- II
  • Language and Women's Place -- A Personal Blog
  • The Language of Art and Other Nonsense, a somewhat nutty blog
  • And Just Put it On
  • Kilpatrick is at it again
  • Love at First Sight
  • The Language of Script Writing
  • To Do or Not to Do
  • The Effortless Superiority of the Brits
  • Mel Gibson's Anti-Semitic Dunken Rant
  • Mens and Women's Brains are Different?
  • The Female Brain Lady
  • Is the War on Terror a War?
  • Chomsky and Chavez
  • Is Foley a Sexual Predator?
  • Global Warming and Global Cooling
  • On "Deaf Culture" and Gallaudet University
  • Borat
  • Celebrities and Racist Talk
  • Still Another Actor Acting Out His Prejudices
  • The Inadequacies of K-12 Teaching
  • A World Spinning our of Control
  • The Meaning of "Reward"
  • Bridges and other dangerous things
  • The Difficulty in being French
  • The End Is Nigh!
  • On Be Look Professional

   

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