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recent bookmarks from PreoccupationsHow New Emoji Are Changing the Pictorial Language - The Atlantic2019-10-28T22:48:50+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/how-new-emoji-are-changing-pictorial-language/582400/
PreoccupationsIan_Bogost emoji 2019 language disabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:0629a4a3b7ec/BBC - Travel - How the Finnish survive without small talk2018-10-17T10:13:45+00:00
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181016-how-the-finnish-survive-without-small-talk
PreoccupationsFinnish language speech silence Muriel_Sparkhttps://twitter.com/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:ea5179058cda/Will Davies — Weaponising Paperwork: the ‘hostile environment’ strategy2018-04-29T06:16:52+00:00
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n09/william-davies/weaponising-paperwork
PreoccupationsLRB Will_Davies 2018 immigration UK Theresa_May racism borders languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:ef0d6c946133/Wyrd - Wikipedia2017-08-29T19:49:20+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd
PreoccupationsWikipedia fate words English language Old_English Anglo-Saxonhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:97a57e3a9b53/Language alters our experience of time2017-08-04T12:38:39+00:00
https://theconversation.com/language-alters-our-experience-of-time-76761
Preoccupationslanguage time perception 2017https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:d71bb5d0d68d/Why do writers abandon their native language?2017-08-03T13:18:08+00:00
https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/03/speaking-tongues
PreoccupationsJoseph_Conrad language writers Beckett Economist 2017https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:0c8900fb8780/Exquisite Tweets from @nick_kapur2017-06-27T13:31:23+00:00
http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/Preoccupations/3846
Preoccupationslanguage English pronunciation 2017 BBC standards 20thChttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:ad77d407e008/The Myles na Gopaleen Catechism of Cliché2017-03-27T19:55:13+00:00
https://www.thoughtco.com/myles-na-gopaleen-catechism-of-cliche-1691765
PreoccupationsBrian_O'Nolan satire cliché style language funny 2015https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:20f6f41467da/Robert Macfarlane on Twitter: "Word of the day: "zawn" - wave-smashed cleft or chasm in a sea-cliff (from Cornish sâwn/sawan). Photo by Rosamund Macfarlane. https://t.co/piIlxi9OVy"2017-03-02T06:44:29+00:00
https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/837186803950104576
PreoccupationsTwitter 2017 Cornwall words language Robert_Macfarlanehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:83c91d16d215/Bad ‘dudes’ and dumb deals – Trumpspeak decoded | US news | The Guardian2017-02-07T22:10:46+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/bad-dudes-dumb-deals-trumpspeak-decoded-donald-trump-language
PreoccupationsTrump language politics USA Guardian 2017 Steven_Poolehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:81a960cd0fed/Grammar for the ages: a royal intervention | OUPblog2017-01-31T18:56:31+00:00
http://blog.oup.com/2017/01/lilys-latin-grammar-english/
PreoccupationsEnglish language grammar history 16thChttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:56afb43fab61/Cornish Language, Place names in Cornwall and Cornish dialect words and phrases including learning resources, books and Cds2016-12-23T22:33:26+00:00
http://www.intocornwall.com/features/cornish_language.asp
PreoccupationsCornwall Cornish language names placeshttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:72319df7f557/Research Blog: Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System2016-12-01T11:01:41+00:00
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with-googles.html?m=1
Preoccupationslanguages language translation Google_Translate research Google 2016https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:2dfe04019122/Commas, colons and capitalisation: the best style guides | Contentious2016-10-12T22:30:09+00:00
http://contentious.ltd/commas-colons-and-capitalisation-the-best-style-guides/
Preoccupationslanguage English style_guides lists_of_bests 2016https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:35190cad1c1f/The Economist explains: Why both I and me can be right | The Economist2016-09-17T07:30:11+00:00
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/04/economist-explains-3
PreoccupationsEconomist language English grammar 2016https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:da192d412439/Language necessarily contains human biases, and so will machines trained on language corpora2016-08-25T07:10:16+00:00
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/language-necessarily-contains-human-biases-and-so-will-machines-trained-on-language-corpora/
Preoccupationsmachine_learning machine-learning language bias 2016https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:a12a2115b946/Mind your language: The editor of the Guardian style guide… in praise of subeditors | Opinion | The Guardian2016-08-03T07:40:53+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/08/in-praise-of-subeditors
PreoccupationsGuardian 2010 language sub-editors stylehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:7a848667f485/Capital letters out, swearwords in: one journalist's legacy | Media | The Guardian2016-08-03T07:37:22+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/aug/01/capital-letters-out-swearwords-in-one-journalists-legacy
PreoccupationsGuardian style language 2016 style_guidehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:71d73254f5bc/Goodbye, etc: why the UK government will stop using Latin abbreviations online | Science | The Guardian2016-07-27T12:27:31+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2016/jul/25/goodbye-etc-why-uk-government-will-stop-using-latin-abbreviations
Preoccupationsgov.uk Guardian 2016 Latin abbreviations language Englishhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:d3e3f7be396f/Language and thought: Declare war on misleading metaphors | The Economist2016-07-25T07:40:21+00:00
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/07/language-and-thought?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/languageandthoughtdeclarewaronmisleadingmetaphors
PreoccupationsEconomist 2016 psychology language metaphors mental_health stresshttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:e05a882340bd/Every political generation has its low moment; this is ours | Coffee House2016-06-20T19:14:32+00:00
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/every-political-generation-low-moment/
PreoccupationsAlex_Massie 2016 politics referendum languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:815f3d140d40/Contempt of court and the contempt of Twitter - Reaction2016-06-18T15:57:30+00:00
http://reaction.life/contempt-court-contempt-twitter/
Preoccupationspolitics UK language 2016 EU referendum Iain_Martin Alex_Massiehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:2252b6cbb7cb/Mainstream politicians ‘clueless on migration debate’, says Jo Cox's husband | UK news | The Guardian2016-06-18T07:48:46+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/17/mainstream-politicians-clueless-on-how-to-deal-with-migration-debate-says-jo-coxs-husband
PreoccupationsGuardian 2016 immigration Jo_Cox migration UK languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:5844f0cc40c1/Old English Translator2016-06-03T10:04:10+00:00
http://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/
PreoccupationsOld_English Anglo-Saxon translate English languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:93f3db2cdde4/Autistics, freed from face-to-face encounters, are communicating in cyberspace. - NYTimes.com2016-05-29T07:12:20+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/30/business/autistics-freed-from-face-to-face-encounters-are-communicating-in-cyberspace.html
PreoccupationsNYT 1997 autism Temple_Grandin language metaphor geekshttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:78cd7b8aff14/Do you say splinter, spool, spile or spell? English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accent | University of Cambridge2016-05-28T10:56:30+00:00
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/do-you-say-splinter-spool-spile-or-spell-english-dialects-app-tries-to-guess-your-regional-accent
Preoccupationslanguage dialect English 2016https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:6c71ce76184f/Daring Fireball: Google’s Encryption Choices With Allo2016-05-24T05:21:51+00:00
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/05/23/allo-encryption
PreoccupationsJohn_Gruber 2016 messaging encryption privacy language Googlehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:2f426cf53178/What's a 'chuggypig'? Robert Macfarlane’s word search | Books | The Guardian2016-05-14T21:52:40+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/14/robert-macfarlane-readers-letters-words
Preoccupationslanguage English words Robert_Macfarlane Guardian 2016https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:05689bd54cb3/Why we don’t understand Kafka | TLS2016-04-15T15:26:19+00:00
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1119440.ece
PreoccupationsGabriel_Josipovici TLS Kafka 2012 writing memory language modernism caféshttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:2958ab869e92/'The British style'? 'The American way?' They are not so different | Mind your language | Media | The Guardian2016-03-23T11:46:48+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2011/may/19/mind-your-language-punctuation-quotations
Preoccupationslanguage punctuation style Guardian 2011https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:5a1b9fbb6a38/'Quotations "within quotations": the Russian doll of punctuation' | Media | The Guardian2016-03-23T11:38:56+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/mar/04/quotations-within-quotations-the-russian-doll-of-punctuation
Preoccupationsstyle punctuation Guardian 2016 languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:3fb32e83c2d6/drtimlomas | Analytic lexicography2016-02-15T11:50:57+00:00
http://www.drtimlomas.com/#!analytic-lexicography/pliik
Preoccupationslexicography language well-beinghttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:c1173316ce24/A Clerk of Oxford: Anglo-Saxon Autumns2016-01-09T22:36:46+00:00
http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/anglo-saxon-autumns.html
PreoccupationsAnglo-Saxon language English autumn 2015 life death Eleanor_Parkerhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:68d1e8fe08e7/Desecration phrasebook: A litany for the Anthropocene | New Scientist2016-01-05T08:38:30+00:00
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830523-200-desecration-phrasebook-a-litany-for-the-anthropocene/
PreoccupationsRobert_Macfarlane words language environment Anthropocene New_Scientist 2015https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:314e91004161/Schmeissing: you can't beat it: What's it like being whipped with a pantomime wig wielded by a bald Jewish man in a steaming hot room? Tom Morris thinks it's great | Lifestyle | The Independent2015-12-28T19:03:09+00:00
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/schmeissing-you-cant-beat-it-whats-it-like-being-whipped-with-a-pantomime-wig-wielded-by-a-bald-1401017.html
PreoccupationsIndependent 1994 language Londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:0268e52a66db/The meaning of "terrorism" | OUPblog2015-12-13T20:42:53+00:00
http://blog.oup.com/2015/11/meaning-of-terrorism/
PreoccupationsOED OUP language terror 2015 terrorismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:7543a4c160ba/What Orwell can teach us about the language of terror and war | Books | The Guardian2015-12-12T20:17:38+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/12/words-on-war-a-summons-to-writers-orwell-lecture
PreoccupationsOrwell Thomas_Merton Rowan_Williams Guardian 2015 language politics truth war contemplationhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:740470612cd6/Words matter in ‘ISIS’ war, so use ‘Daesh’ - The Boston Globe2015-11-15T09:34:19+00:00
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/10/09/words-matter-isis-war-use-daesh/V85GYEuasEEJgrUun0dMUP/story.html?event=event25
PreoccupationsISIS Daesh 2015 Islam terrorism languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:b8617bbabe2c/Guardian Style Guide: learned/learnt2015-08-31T17:46:19+00:00
https://mobile.twitter.com/guardianstyle/status/638405570123272192
PreoccupationsGuardian style language 2015https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:069b6eddbc85/Andrea Wulf: The Invention of Science2015-08-29T22:24:40+00:00
http://andreawulf.typepad.com/files/the-invention-of-science-a-new-history-of-the-scientific-revolution-by-david-wootton---ft.com.pdf
Preoccupationsscience language book_reviews 2015 FT discovery history_of_sciencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:9a68ec1e7d32/‘If you hate the migrants in Calais, you hate yourself’ | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Guardian2015-08-02T13:00:09+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/why-fortress-britain-doesnt-welcome-refugees?CMP=twt_gu
PreoccupationsNick_Cohen Guardian David_Cameron 2015 migration Other languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:f2a03122f88b/Blue moon: how to see tonight’s 'rare' event | Science | The Guardian2015-07-31T13:01:59+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2015/jul/31/blue-moon-how-to-see-tonights-rare-event?CMP=twt_gu
Preoccupationsmoon Guardian 2015 languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:f9eefaad0ce3/Mapping Metaphor: Home2015-06-30T17:35:46+00:00
http://mappingmetaphor.arts.gla.ac.uk/
Preoccupationsmetaphor English language mappinghttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:4798dfef7624/Swear words, etymology, and the history of English | OxfordWords blog2015-06-26T18:20:52+00:00
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/swear-words-etymology-and-the-history-of-english/
PreoccupationsEnglish language history swearing etymologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:8281275bb869/Mishearings - NYTimes.com2015-06-10T06:34:48+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/oliver-sacks-mishearings.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=3
PreoccupationsNYT 2015 Oliver_Sacks hearing meaning speech music perception language Freudhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:f5775bf70b8c/The Cathedral of Computation - The Atlantic2015-05-13T06:50:15+00:00
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-cathedral-of-computation/384300/
Preoccupations2015 algorithms Ian_Bogost computers language metaphor technology data big_datahttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:daa4d6e90bbd/The Way Things Are and How They Might Be2015-04-14T08:00:52+00:00
http://rete-eco.it/2011/home/35-documenti/riflessioni/12390-the-way-things-are-and-how-they-might-be.html
PreoccupationsTony_Judt 2010 language history politics equalityhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:a439edcfe35b/Up yours, Brutus!2015-03-15T09:09:03+00:00
http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2014/03/up-yours-brutus.html
Preoccupationsevil Romans language 2015https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:29b994f86943/Simon Prosser on reading Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks | Penguin Blog2015-03-07T11:04:22+00:00
http://penguinblog.co.uk/2014/09/30/simon-prosser-on-reading-robert-macfarlanes-landmarks/
Preoccupationslanguage words Robert_Macfarlane 2015https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:eb557358986e/Alleyways of language: regional words for ‘alleyway’ | OxfordWords blog2015-03-01T09:15:30+00:00
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/10/regional-words-alleyway/
PreoccupationsEnglish language words 2014https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:68b16143bed4/The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape | Books | The Guardian2015-02-28T10:09:06+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape
PreoccupationsRobert_Macfarlane words language terroir terrain landscape English Guardian 2015 attention knowledge nature Wendell_Berry Otherhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:5ee90c5dd289/The New Language Of Political Narcissism | Standpoint2015-02-26T08:03:12+00:00
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/5915/full
PreoccupationsGeorge_Orwell Peter_Oborne language English politics narcissism educationhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:d4321f781b4b/Style Guides: Never Final, Usually Helpful | Copyediting.com2015-02-19T21:55:42+00:00
http://www.copyediting.com/style-guides-never-final-usually-helpful
Preoccupationslanguage style_guides 2015https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:17d694fd1271/What Tristram Hunt’s ‘nun’ bomb tells us about British politics | Rafael Behr | Comment is free | The Guardian2015-02-11T07:52:39+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/11/tristram-hunt-nun-bomb-british-politics
Preoccupationspolitics language Guardian 2015https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:67f56c65b65e/Language Log » More on the history of comprised of meaning "composed of"2015-02-10T19:40:18+00:00
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3182
PreoccupationsEnglish languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:6427d92cade0/Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong | David Shariatmadari | Comment is free | The Guardian2015-02-07T22:26:50+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/05/why-wikipedias-grammar-vigilante-is-wrong
Preoccupations2015 Guardian grammar language English Wikipediahttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:0781f85e61f0/Why do we have silent letters in the English language? - Features - Books - The Independent2015-01-03T20:40:37+00:00
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/why-do-we-have-silent-letters-in-the-english-language-9952944.html
Preoccupationslanguage English Independent history 2015https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:881eb09c35f8/The risks of using asterisks in place of swearwords | Mind your (bad) language | Media | The Guardian2015-01-01T15:15:50+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/jul/22/mind-your-language-asterisks-swearwords
Preoccupations2012 Guardian language style_guide swearinghttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:9c9bfdfe5367/Guardian style guide on Twitter: "A lovely seasonal cartoon from Doug Savage's @savagechickens http://t.co/xf52ufwnTc"2014-12-18T19:41:20+00:00
https://twitter.com/guardianstyle/status/545656338546958336/photo/1
PreoccupationsEnglish language style_guide Guardian 2014https://twitter.com/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:b4d7baf4d4cf/There is no language instinct – Vyvyan Evans – Aeon2014-12-04T18:47:10+00:00
http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/there-is-no-language-instinct/
Preoccupationslanguage Chomsky 2014 Pirahã language_instinct Steven_Pinker evolution cooperationhttps://twitter.com/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:ec85670caab3/David Marsh on ... forsweating all errors | Comment is free | The Guardian2014-11-14T07:43:36+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/aug/24/grauniad-spelling-grammar-subeditors
PreoccupationsEnglish language style_guide Guardian 2009 grammarhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:a64777c61f19/Hear Beowulf Read In the Original Old English: How Many Words Do You Recognize? | Open Culture2014-10-24T20:46:32+00:00
http://www.openculture.com/2014/10/hear-beowulf-read-in-the-original-old-english.html
PreoccupationsEnglish language historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:41333cd3912d/Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) | Books | The Guardian2014-08-16T06:45:09+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/steven-pinker-10-grammar-rules-break
PreoccupationsGuardian 2014 style language grammar Englishhttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:89053a5a093c/John Wells’s phonetic blog: keeping schtum2014-07-12T11:00:03+00:00
http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/keeping-schtum.html
Preoccupationslanguage 2012 Englishhttps://apple.com/iphone/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:36ead0185dac/Last Navajo code talker dies on eve of second world war memorials | World news | theguardian.com2014-06-04T20:59:23+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/04/navajo-code-breaker-chester-nez-dies-world-war-two
Preoccupationsencryption language WW2 WWII Guardian 2014https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:937a03e31a2a/Why the Guardian chose Ukip. (Rather than UKIP) | Mind your language | Media | theguardian.com2014-05-26T07:45:41+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/may/23/mind-your-language-ukip
Preoccupationsstyle_guide language English acronyms Guardian 2014https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:8dd9e0424e07/Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia2014-05-08T06:14:28+00:00
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge
PreoccupationsWikipedia Borges John_Wilkins language philosophyhttps://apple.com/iphone/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:08b8d2e97890/8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today | David Shariatmadari | Comment is free | theguardian.com2014-03-11T23:07:55+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/11/pronunciation-errors-english-language
Preoccupationslanguage English pronunciation Guardian 2014https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:ffeade8a7f3a/15 reasons to love BuzzFeed's style guide | Media | theguardian.com2014-02-06T17:32:55+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2014/feb/05/15-reasons-love-buzzfeed-style-guide
Preoccupationsstyle language Guardian 2014 guidehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:35a3186a342e/GDS design principles2014-01-24T17:49:07+00:00
https://www.gov.uk/design-principles/style-guide
PreoccupationsGDS UK style_guides web languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:7f06cca32552/