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Language Log: The twilight of -ess

To follow up on Mark's post, below, on the bottomless fatuity of Robert Fisk: we gave a bunch of these items in -ess to the members of the American Heritage Usage Panel some years ago; Kristen Hanson...

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Language Log: A shibboleth in time

James McElvenney comes to the defense of Andrew Herrick ("Linguistic border security", Fully (sic) 8/16/2010). Shorter version: Herrick argued that Americanisms are polluting the clear pool of...

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Language Log: Gricean bagel rage

When Paul Grice drafted his maxims for cooperative conversation, he didn't have in mind that we should get upset when people violate them. On the contrary, the whole idea was to use apparent...

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