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Global warming, 9/11, Obama top words of the decade
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
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Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with "global warming" and "9/11" topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s. The Global Language Monitor, which uses...
Tags: Los Angeles, Linguistics, Truthiness, Barack Obama, Chinglish, Bailout, Global Language Monitor, Human communication, Language, Environment
Poetry with music
Auckland :: New Zealand | 7 days ago
Credibility Like Fiona Farrell, Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland courtesy of the Rathcoola Fellowship, and like Farrell, she has produced a superb new collection of poems that feed off the Irish experience. Many of the poetry books I have reviewed this...
Tags: Diana Bridge, New Zealand, Auckland, Literature, Poetry, Spoken word, Entertainment Culture, Aesthetics, Genres, Linguistics
Memorable 'Passages' -- Helen Drayton's
Port of Spain :: Trinidad and Tobago | 8 days ago
Credibility As cameras, celebrities and Cabinet members crammed into the National Academy for the Performing Arts for its opening ceremony, about 200 literature lovers deliberately sought to escape the pomp and circumstance surrounding the celebrations and chose...
Tags: Helen Drayton, Rosalind Wilson, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Literature, Poetry, Spoken word, Drayton, Aesthetics, Genres, Linguistics, Education
Navajo 'code talkers' honored on Veterans Day
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor from the November 11, 2009 edition It was the one code the Japanese couldn't crack. Based on the Navajo language, the code helped the US communicate clandestinely during World War II – and ultimately contributed...
Tags: code talkers, New York City, Native American history, Code talker, World War II Pacific Theatre, Navajo I, Navajo Nation, War Conflict, Navajo tribe, Southern Athabaskan languages, Linguistics, Human Interest, Basque language, Navajo people
Why the word, 'cat' sounds the same in so many seemingly unrelated language families
The word for cat sounds the same regardless of the language family--Uralic, Indo European, Hamitic/Nubian, Semitic, Basque, Chinese....they all call it a cat or a puss. How did you pick your cat's name--or your dog's name? Here's the history of...
Tags: cats in many languages, the word, cat, linguistics
Nature's Ching, parts 1 & 2 (A manifesto in progress)
By Chuck Richardson Originally posted at http://chuckrichardson.blogspot.com/ Over the next couple months I plan to post parts of this essay in progress to spur conversation and receive feedback. I’ll humbly submit its completed form as my “theory...
Tags: CHAOS, CHARLES LUMSDEN, COGNITION, DEEP ECOLOGY, E.O. WILSON, ELIZABETH WRIGHT, EXISTENTIALISM, LINGUISTICS, QUANTUM PHYSICS, SANTIAGO THEORY, SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY, SUPERORGANISM, TAOISM
Lexicon Injection Project introduces phrases for immediate and widespread dissemination
April 10, 2009 The objective of the Lexicon Injection Project (LIP) is to see how long it takes for the following terms, “exit call” and “entrance call,” to gain widespread usage in the English-speaking world. The terms below were...
Tags: Lexicon Injection Project, LIP, The Punditty Project, suitable for forwarding, telephone call as you are walking out the door, telephone phenomenon, telephonic, phone communications, telephone industry, urban dictionary, communication, landline, cellular phone, cell phones, allvoices.com, citizen journalism, please forward, spread the word, bad timing, in a hurry, hands full, hello, new word, dictionary, linguistics, words
McCain's subliminal weapon in Minnesota - Palin's accent?
Some people didn’t like Bill Clinton’s Arkansas twang, others loved it. Some people recoiled at John F. Kennedy’s Boston accent, others swooned. Some in Cal-ee-forn-uh-ya like to hear Gov. Schwarzenegger say the state’s name, others...
Tags: Palin's accent, Minnesota, politics, polls, Obama, Biden, linguistics
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