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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The evolution of Italian is a parable of how languages develop]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://blog.ayjay.org/speech-craft/">
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Barnes’ self-chosen quixotic task — as outlined in his Preface Fore-Say — is to describe English speech-craft using only English words. The task is quixotic because linguists and lexicographers and grammarians typically use words borrowed from Latin and (less often) Greek.
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    <title>How You Say “I Dunno”</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[ẽ̞ẽẽ̝] - That’s the way you mumble ‘I dunno’, and it has implications for the nature of meaning superlinguo: “ I always used to get into trouble with my mum for reducing ‘I don’t know’ into nothing...]]></description>
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    <title>The Grammarphobia Blog: Is 'film' classier than 'movie'?</title>
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    <link>https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/06/film-movie.html</link>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WHAT does it mean to “bear arms”?]]></description>
<dc:subject>linguistics constitution us guns</dc:subject>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The emphatic “literally” is not a millennial invention; it goes back to the 1700s at least, though Smith gets it right that it’s English. John Dryden, a man who is best known as the founder of literary criticism and the prohibition against the terminal preposition, was an early user of the emphatic “literally.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace all used the emphatic “literally” in their works. Even Lindley Murray, 19th-century grammarian, uses the hyperbolic “literally” in his own grammar — and he was such a peever that he thought children, along with animals, shouldn’t be referred to with the pronoun “who,” as “who” conveys personhood, and only creatures with the ability to be rational are actually people.]]></description>
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    <title>The Rapid Evolution of Emoji, a Wordless Tongue -- NYMag</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-17T13:08:23+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://accent.gmu.edu/">
    <title>Speech Accent Archive</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-09T18:19:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://accent.gmu.edu/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler">
    <title>The Meme Hustler | Evgeny Morozov | The Baffler</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-10T20:51:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler</link>
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    <title>Say “Cheese”! | GeoCurrents</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-17T15:15:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://geocurrents.info/cultural-geography/linguistic-geography/say-cheese</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><dc:subject>cheese geography linguistics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html">
    <title>Futurese (JBR Precoglang)</title>
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    <link>http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap">
    <title>American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-01T08:34:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Somehow I never bookmarked this amazing personal project before.]

"This is just a hobby of mine, that I thought might be interesting to a lot of people. Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. I collect dialects. Please let me know what you think of this page. - Rick Aschmann (Last updated: July 21, 2012.)"

"There are 8 major English dialect areas in North America, listed below the map at left. These are shown in blue, each with its number, on the map and in the Dialect Description Chart below, and are also outlined with blue lines on the map. The first 6 of these begin at the eastern seaboard and proceed west, reflecting western settlement patterns.

The many subdialects are shown in red on the map and in the chart, and are outlined with red lines on the map. All of these are listed in the margins of the map as well.

In the Dialect Description Chart additional features not shown on the map are provided for distinguishing the dialects."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo">
    <title>Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-06T12:49:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.[1] It was posted to Linguist List by Rapaport in 1992.[2] It was also featured in Steven Pinker's 1994 book The Language Instinct.[3]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2011-01-15T15:41:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/17/languages_of_the_geeks/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The world of invented language is a difficult place to succeed and those who have the patience to create their own tend to have a hard time gathering followers.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/">
    <title>Tip of My Tongue - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-20T16:32:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember
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    <title>Language Log » Yep and nope</title>
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    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2768</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's not that the language couldn't develop in a way that would increase their frequency; it has now started to. But it was just that for a long time it hadn't. And I, for one, hadn't noticed that, but now that he points it out, I realize I agree with him. Yep and Nope appear to have evolved as one-word utterances, and originally (it seems) they hardly ever occurred in longer utterances featuring utterance-final occurrences of the words yes and no. And that seems quite surprising to me.
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    <title>Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com</title>
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    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance, there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title, “Science and Linguistics,” nor the magazine, M.I.T.’s Technology Review, was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author, a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted as an anthropology lecturer at Yale University, was an unlikely candidate for international superstardom. And yet Benjamin Lee Whorf let loose an alluring idea about language’s power over the mind, and his stirring prose seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think.
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    <title>The Foundations of Arithmetic: Amazon.co.uk: Frege: Books</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is the best, most accessible work ever in the philosophy of mathematics. It is also beautifully conceived and executed. For those who want to know what philosophical analysis is, this is among the best example ever produced. He succeeded in laying the foundation for the stunning advances in mathematical logic in the 20th century that themselves provided frameworks for modern theories both of computation and of linguistically encoded information.
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    <title>Linguistics Challenge Puzzles</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-09T17:52:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The following links will take you to some sample linguistics puzzles. These puzzles are copyrighted by the University of Oregon Department of Linguistics, but may be copied or printed for personal or classroom use.
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    <title>Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The first question any thoughtful person might ask when reading the title of this essay is, "Hard for whom?" A reasonable question. After all, Chinese people seem to learn it just fine. When little Chinese kids go through the "terrible twos", it's Chinese they use to drive their parents crazy, and in a few years the same kids are actually using those impossibly complicated Chinese characters to scribble love notes and shopping lists. So what do I mean by "hard"?
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    <dc:date>2010-06-17T14:50:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theamericanscholar.org/they-get-to-me/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I used to be a normal psycholinguistics graduate student. I wanted to study how the mind parses improbable metaphors, unintelligible accents, and quirky syntax. Sexy things. Things that would play out well at parties. I imagined myself magnanimously explaining how sentences like “The bartender served the bourbon fell down the stairs” were truly grammatical. I imagined myself dropping newspaper headlines like “Iraqi Head Seeks Arms” into conversations with beautiful people. I would defend Internet chatroom slang on local radio. I would exchange holiday cards with Steven Pinker.

"But something has happened. I am in my third year of graduate school, and I have fallen in love. I have fallen for pronouns. It’s hard to shut me up about them."
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    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What do you call those peculiar headlines with noun/verb confusion? 'Crash Blossoms'.
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    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Unrelated to any other extant tongue, and based on just eight consonants and three vowels, Pirahã has one of the simplest sound systems known. Yet it possesses such a complex array of tones, stresses, and syllable lengths that its speakers can dispense with their vowels and consonants altogether and sing, hum, or whistle conversations. It is a language so confounding to non-natives that until Everett and his wife, Keren, arrived among the Pirahã, as Christian missionaries, in the nineteen-seventies, no outsider had succeeded in mastering it."
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For sound complexity, one language stands out. !Xóõ, spoken by just a few thousand, mostly in Botswana, has a blistering array of unusual sounds. Its vowels include plain, pharyngealised, strident and breathy, and they carry four tones. It has five basic clicks and 17 accompanying ones. The leading expert on the !Xóõ, Tony Traill, developed a lump on his larynx from learning to make their sounds."
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    <title>Harper's Magazine: Tense Present.</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage, by David Foster Wallace.
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