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  1. Dog Eared

     "Enough Said" is a Powerful Look at the Sewer of Political Language
    Mon Nov 21 23:50:00 EST 2016
    As we look back at the language of the recent election, it's hard not to feel like political language has fallen into the sewer, and plummeted from there into a lower sewer, and might be still falling.

  2. Language Lounge

     "About Us"
    Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We've been exploring the online presence of companies recently in the Lounge. The language that companies use to present their public face has piqued our curiosity and we've been thinking about what purpose these self-reports from companies serve.

  3. Word Count

     Through the Wringer: Squeezing the Meaning from "Eke"
    Tue Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2014
    Sometimes, a photo "ekes out of the printer." Other times, electronics help "to eke out extra mileage" in cars. And in a more familiar usage, a movie "shows how a once-budding folk singer tries to eke out a living." It's no wonder, then, that most people think "eke out" means to achieve something through effort, to barely get by.

  4. Teachers at Work

     Don't Ask Me: Writing Teacher Breaks Rules, Doesn't Care
    Mon Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2010

    Writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker has a dark secret she has to reveal.

    Here's my confession: In the summer, I don't care about rules. I pen prose that would give a good copy editor a heart attack. I don't mind if someone "lays" down for a nap, I get in the line for "ten items or less" and refrain from muttering fewer under my breath. The news "impacts"people and I don't flinch. It's very liberating. The down side of all this is when friends—or worse, new acquaintances—ask me word questions and I give wrong answers. It's not that I do a brain cleanse every June, it's that I can't articulate the rules when I'm not really thinking about them.

  5. Word Count

     What I Read This Summer
    Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Day after day of 90+ degree heat seems to melt our brains into neuronic mushes far too soggy for heavy reading, and we become capable only of lazing through lighter-than-air fare. A memorable New Yorker cartoon tells the story: a stern cop, looming over a sunbather reading Crime and Punishment, says, "I'm sorry, sir, but Dostoyevsky is not considered summer reading."

  6. Word Count

     Computers with Red Pencils
    Mon Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Machines can grade essays as accurately as human readers. According to the New York Times, a competition sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation produced software able to match human essay readers grade for grade, and a study of commercially-available automatic grading programs showed that computers assessed essays as accurately as human readers, but a whole lot faster, and cheaper, to boot. But that's just the start: computers could lead to a reading-free future.

  7. Dog Eared

     Type-ologies
    Wed May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2008

    When it comes to the printed (or electronic) word, design can be just as important as content. Here are some books to get you thinking about the "look" of language.

    Thinking with Type

    A Short History of the Printed Word

    The Elements of Typographic Style

    The End of Print

  8. Blog Excerpts

     Acquiring the @ Symbol
    Tue Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    New York's Museum of Modern Art has made an unusual acquisition. According to a blog post by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of the museum's Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA has acquired the @ symbol.

  9. Dog Eared

     The Crossword Revolution
    Fri Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Dec. 21, 2013 marks the hundredth anniversary of the crossword puzzle. But the crossword has come a long way since Arthur Wynne's first creation for The New York World. In a lively new book entitled The Curious History of the Crossword, Ben Tausig, himself a noted constructor and editor of crosswords, argues that the day Will Shortz took over the New York Times crossword 20 years ago marked a watershed moment in the puzzle's history.

  10. Teachers at Work

     Defeating the Poetry Monster
    Mon Apr 12 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    In honor of National Poetry Month, we present some valuable tips for introducing poetry to students from Michele Dunaway, who teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri, when she's not writing best-selling romance novels.
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