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The iPad: What's a Gutenberg Moment, Anyway?
Thu Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2010
Apple's iPad tablet computer is being heralded as a technological advance on par with Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Mere hyperbole? University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron takes a look, and considers how the iPad might revolutionize the way we interact with text.
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Evasive Maneuvers
Euphemisms of Interest
Wed Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2010
As the most ravenous euphemism-hunter in North America, I sometimes have to act quickly and without mercy. Euphemisms are cunning — always hiding under rocks, burrowing themselves in dictionaries that fell into ravines, or appearing on wavelengths blocked by the tin-foil hat that nice man from Mars helped me assemble into a Helmet of Awesomeness and Security.
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Teachers at Work
Nitpicker's Revenge: Presentation Matters
Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2010
When Margaret Hundley Parker teaches writing at the college level, she finds that the papers submitted by students often fall prey to the most basic errors of presentation. Here she reveals five persistent formatting flaws in student papers and explains how to fix them.
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Candlepower
Decoding Fashionspeak
Mon Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous," the Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli famously said. But come hard times or good times, you can always count on fashion writing to be an excessive, outrageous genre unto itself. Where else but in fashion copy would destructed be an acceptable — indeed, comprehensible — adjective? Who but a fashion editor would bully her readers with imperatives such as must-have? And what on earth is one supposed to make of cryptic abbreviations like cardi, bodycon, and MOTG?
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Calendar
National Poetry Month
Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010 - Fri Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
April is National Poetry Month! Bring some poetry into your classroom with one of these Visual Thesaurus lesson plans.
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Word Routes
Getting "Social"
Fri Apr 02 00:00:00 EDT 2010
In this Sunday's "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine, I take on some modern meanings of social and related words like socialize. (Have you been in a meeting where someone has suggested socializing an idea?) We owe much of the recent rise of social-ity to those trendy online terms, social media and social networking. How did we manage to get so social simply by staring into our laptop screens?
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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.
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Blog Excerpts
"The Great Recession"?
Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010
The Associated Press style guide has given its official imprimatur to "The Great Recession" as a description for the global financial crisis that started in late 2007. Many other news organizations, particularly those in Europe, think that the AP is jumping the gun. Kathlyn Clore of the European Journalism Centre reports here.
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Blog Excerpts
Bite-Size Edits
Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010
What is "Bite-Size Edits"? It's a new website that "takes a text, chops it into pieces, and serves those pieces randomly to editors. Players get points for editing text, for providing useful comments, and for helping to get a text completely edited." Seems like a crazy idea, but it turns out to be surprisingly addictive.
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Wordmasters
The March-April 2010 Wordmasters Challenge
Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010
Welcome to the March-April 2010 WordMasters Challenge, the third of this school year. Over four thousand school teams from every state participate each year in this popular national competition for Language Arts students in grades 3 to 12. Visit the WordMasters website to learn more about how to participate in the Challenge using the word lists posted here.
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