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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 [...]
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 [...]
Another take on prescriptivism
In: Language
26 Dec 2009You might remember those sort of “controversial” posts I had on language and prescriptivism (the one commenting on the Bebigerls and another commenting on one of Mr. Jose Carillo’s posts regarding the prescriptivist versus descriptivist debate). As language studies scholar, I do swear by descriptivism, since as a an applied linguist, I have to write [...]
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Had quite an interesting discussion regarding Gricean pragmatics this morning and had me thinking about . It’s funny how all of these theories and books can be filtered down and summarized to just a few of their core sections. With H.P. Grice, many linguistics majors just remember him with his Co-operative Principle.
In a nutshell, the [...]
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On prescriptivism… again
5 Jul 2009Well, I have already written about prescriptivism at length before. I was really settled in letting the issue go but something caught my eye just this weekend. For some reason, I keep getting a weekly spam from the Jose Carillo English Forum. (Jose Carillo, as some might know, is an award-winning author of books that [...]
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