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(Talkin' 'Bout) the Generations
April 28, 2020
By Nancy Friedman
Topic : LinguisticsCandlepowerAd and marketing creatives(Talkin' 'Bout) the Generations April 28, 2020 By Nancy Friedman![]() Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversI May Not Know Grammar, But I Know What I Like April 3, 2020 By Orin Hargraves
We'll all be doing each other a great favor by paying most of our attention to the substance of what others say, and the least of our attention to the way they say it.
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Article Topics:Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexiconNew Virus, New Words March 30, 2020 By Nancy Friedman
Caremongering? Quarantini? Zoom-bombing? The COVID-19 pandemic has already inspired its own lexicon of coined words.
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Article Topics:CandlepowerAd and marketing creativesDoes It Matter What We Call a Disease? March 23, 2020 By Nancy Friedman
From cholera to Spanish flu to "Wuhan virus," what we call a disease reveals our fears and prejudices.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversI've Been Working on the Railroad March 9, 2020 By Orin Hargraves
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the merger of four railroads in the United States to create the longest railroad in the world by number of miles served. I note the anniversary as an item of linguistic curiosity, in light of the many ways that railroads and trains have made their way into popular and figurative English.
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Article Topics:Dog EaredBooks we loveDennis Baron's "What's Your Prounoun? Beyond He & She" is a Timely Winner February 27, 2020 By Mark Peters
Thanks to the prominence of pronouns and the depth of Baron's work, a Tour of the History of Nonbinary Pronouns is probably going to be the language book of the year.
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The woman suffrage movement introduced Americans to a new vocabulary of voting rights. Here's a centennial look back at our linguistic debt to the 19th Amendment and its advocates.
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