Language Log: Rachel Jeantel on CNN
Following up on "Rachel Jeantel’s language in the Zimmerman trial", LLOG readers may welcome an opportunity to hear Rachel Jeantel in person, tonight on CNN — "Tonight at 9: Piers Morgan welcomes...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Update on Nom
On May 28, 2013, I made the following post: "Vietnamese in Chinese and Nom characters". The discussion that followed, as usual at Language Log, was lively and informative, and raised a lot of very...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Rowling and "Galbraith": an authorial analysis
The Sunday (UK) Times recently revealed that J.K. Rowling wrote the detective novel The Cuckoo's Calling under the pen name Robert Galbraith. The newspaper explained that, as part of their...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Judgment leads to…
The latest xkcd explains: Mouseover message: "But the rules of writing are like magic spells. If you never acquire them, then not using them says nothing."
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