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Discover the .EDU Underground - Education - LifehackerDiscover the .EDU Underground Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Most of these sites won't pop up to the surface of the average search engine quest, and so ...
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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version | vanityfair.comPalin’s Resignation: The Edited Version If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced ...
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Jay Walker on the world's English mania | Video on TED.comTalks Jay Walker on the world's English mania Sort By: Add a Comment Characters used: 0 (1000 max.) Newsletter: Video RSS: Additional RSS Options
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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - ChronicleReview.com50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice April 16 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a little book that is loved and admired throughout American academe. Celebrations, readings, and toasts are being held, and a commemorative edition has been released. I won't be celebrating. The ...
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The Incompetent Strunk and WhiteUtne Blogs > Great Writing The Incompetent Strunk and White 5/19/2009 3:24:18 PM by Jeff Severns Guntzel Tags: Great Writing , Books , Grammer , Elements of Style , The Chronicle Review If you love an old fashioned grammarian throw down, we've got a good one for you. This ...
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English Die SoonEnglish Die Soon Global web geeks are killing the Queen’s English. Good riddance. By the time English truly is a dominant language on the planet, it will no longer be English. Instead, say a group of linguists interviewed in New Scientist (March 29, 2008), the language will fragment into ...
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In Defense of Common English - ChronicleReview.comIn Defense of Common English Not long ago, I took part in a panel discussion at the Free Library of Philadelphia. My fellow panelists were two linguists and a lexicographer. Anyone who knows any linguists and lexicographers will be unsurprised to hear that their position on usage was ...
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Dashed Bad Form | Standpoint.OnlineBryony Gordon, in the Sunday Telegraph: "Other, more sane [sic] women would see this as a reason to get lost—I just view it as a challenge." John Conroy, on the Daily Telegraph's letters page, whose editing is ordinarily impeccable: "Browsing for a book is not the same as going into a clothes ...
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An Interview With William Gass » Arts & Entertainment | SpecBlogs.comWednesday, April 22, 2009 An Interview With William Gass By: Ian Corey-Boulet at 3:26 am William Gass will be speaking about “baroque prose” in the Davis Auditorium of the Schapiro Center later tonight. A few days ago, he was kind enough to respond to a few questions via e-mail. The ...
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Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare, Playwright, Poet and Actor“He was not for an age but for all time,” said Ben Jonson in the dedication to William Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio. It may be the truest thing Jonson ever wrote: four and a half centuries after the Bard’s birth, his works continue to inspire us.
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