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Tag Archives: language
Phony Rules of English Grammar
You have heard the rules before: Don’t end a sentence with a preposition. Don’t split an infinitive. Don’t start with a conjunction. But who makes these rules? How did they become incorporated into English grammar? One culprit is Robert Lowth, … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, crime, culture, English, grammar, history, humor, language, Latin, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, nerd, norms, politics, research, rhetoric, rule-making, rules
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: The English Alphabet
We take our ABC’s for granted, learning 26 letters in a precise order from our youngest days. When introduced to a second or third language later in life we may realize that even similar tongues to English contain slightly different … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, culture, education, history, language, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, Old English, politics, Rome, war
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Punctuation Politics – The Curious Case of the Apostrophe
Some of the context is unfamiliar to me as a non-UK reader, but Michael Rosen makes an interesting argument that there is a politics of punctuation: My position is that the apostrophe is on the way out. It’s an inconsistent … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, education, emergent order, grammar, history, language, linguistics, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, norms, politics, rules
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Sounds of America
The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a project initiated almost 50 years ago to document “words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one place to another place across the United States.” The map at the right gives a … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, American politics, culture, history, holidays, language, linguistics, micro-institutions, politics, travel
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