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Breaking the carabao’s back
15 Jan 2010
And we complain about the “poor” command of English our graduates have. There’s no reason to play chicken and egg on a problem that is caused by many wrongs on so many different levels. But one thing that the [...]
Pirated scholarship
13 Jan 2010I feel so old in saying “How I wish we had the learning resources kids have these days.” The Internet and the availability of information has, I think, has pretty much the same effect as, say the photocopying machine or the word processor. I just can’t imagine writing a 100-page thesis
Just last night, my younger [...]
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- Tags: Downloads, Ebooks, Education, Language, Linguistics
The originality of thought
10 Jan 2010It really is a hard thing to come up with something original these days. That proverbial bucket in the sea of knowledge is a constant bitching reminder that no matter how much you read and learn, you won’t be able to match the billions of Google’s indexed pages.
Makes you wonder how difficult it really [...]
Linguistic Auschwitz
In: Language
3 Jan 2010Lake Superior State University recently posted a list of their banished words for 2010.
The list includes words in popular use right now such as “unfriend,” “tweet,” and “sexting.” The list continues to argue in favor of prescriptivism. Promoting a standard language to address miscommunication is one thing. “Banishing” words is something else.
What I don’t understand [...]
Book loot
In: Education| Language| Literature
27 Dec 2009I was supposed to pick out my overdue birthday and Christmas gift yesterday. Failed miserably yet again. You see, rewarding myself is an idea that’s foreign. Blame childhood issues, perhaps. Oftentimes, I get what I need and not what I really want. In those times when I do get what I want, I pine over [...]
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- Tags: Books, Linguistics, Podcast Kit
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