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Why English Keeps On, Like, Totally Changing - New York Times
Imagine the progress of the English language as a moving train. It need not be a fast-moving train; in fact, it helps if you picture it chugging along majestically through a flat landscape. Our two authors are actively interested in observing the progress of the train.
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French-language radio program in Louisiana. Last speakers. Codeswitching French-English. Cajun French.
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Guarani in Paraguay: An Indigenous Language With Unique Staying Power
To this day, Paraguay remains the only country in the Americas where a majority of the population speaks one indigenous language: Guaraní. It is enshrined in the Constitution, officially giving it equal footing with the language of European conquest, Spanish. And in the streets, it is a source of national pride.
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young women often trendsetters in vocal patterns
Whether it be uptalk (pronouncing statements as if they were questions? Like this?), creating slang words like “bitchin’ ” and “ridic,” or the incessant use of “like” as a conversation filler, vocal trends associated with young women are often seen as markers of immaturity or even stupidity.
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Occupy Language? - NYTimes.com
A movement that challenges the power structure of language could help foster the sort of equality the protests aim to achieve.
“occupy,” is the odds-on favorite to be chosen as the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year.
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The Oops in the ‘O’ for Oregon
When University of Oregon football fans cheer their team, they often hold out their hands in the shape of the letter “O,” for Oregon. If this makes some Ducks players blush, it is because many of them chose sign language to fulfill their foreign language requirement, and in sign language, the fans are saying — screaming, really — the word vagina
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How Revolutionary Tools Cracked a 1700s Code
A team of Swedish and American linguists has applied statistics-based translation techniques to crack one of the most stubborn of codes: the Copiale Cipher, a hand-lettered 105-page manuscript that appears to date from the late 18th century. Discovered in an academic archive in the former East Germany, the elaborately bound volume of gold and green brocade paper holds 75,000 characters, a perplexing mix of mysterious symbols and Roman letters.
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Falser Words Were Never Spoken
When you start to become aware of these bogus quotations, you can’t stop finding them. Henry James, George Eliot, Picasso — all of them are being kept alive in popular culture through pithy, cheery sayings they never actually said.