Language Log: "There is no Communist Party, there is no New China"
Kira Simon-Kennedy wrote to me from Beijing that she is chaperoning 30 French high school students on their first trip to China to learn Mandarin. Yesterday afternoon, the French students were trying...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Microsoft tech writing noun pile blog post madness!
Fans of noun piles will enjoy the recent blog post by Mike Pope, a technical editor at Microsoft, "Fun (or not) with noun stacks." Mike shares a few of the lovely compound noun pileups he's...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Does talking websterize wordage?
An old argument, in today's Get Fuzzy: LING 001 Essay Question: Explain why Rob and Bucky are both wrong.
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