A couple of recent studies seem to confirm what many fear: text abbreviations cause poor grammar...
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Podcasts de prescriptivism
Should we use the word 'rape' when it's not about actual rape? What about 'retarded' or 'gay'?...
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Passive Voice Day was held last week. The linguistic phenomenon known as passive voice is hated...
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41a: You Are What You Speak, part 2 (featuring Robert Lane Greene)
UWA linguist Daniel Midgley talks the talk with Robert Lane Greene, language blogger, journalist,...
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41: You Are What You Speak (featuring Robert Lane Greene)
Are you a grammar grouch? Do you have language peeves? And if so, how can you recover? UWA...
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Are you plagued by Americanisms? Some people get irritated by words or phrases invented or...
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Lexicon Valley No. 32: The Burden of Being Right
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the irresistible pull of language pedantry.
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Grammar Cop; by Trey Jones; From Volume CLXXIII, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, July 2015 —...
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Have you heard of eggcorns? They're off-quoted sayings that sometimes reel their ugly heads, and...
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Did the Australian accent appear as a result of drunkenness? Is texting a sign of declining...
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Saving Endangered Languages with Prescriptivism
Saving Endangered Languages with Prescriptivism; by Neil de Veratte; From Volume CLXXII, Number...
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231a: The Really Big Show, Part 1 (featuring Alexis Dubus)
Talk the Talk returns in a big way for this Australia / Survival Day 2016. Linguist Daniel...
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235: Worst Words (featuring Don Watson)
Are our vocabularies shrinking? Is bureaucratic double-talk a sinister form of code designed to...
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231a: The Really Big Show, Part 1 (featuring Alexis Dubus)
Talk the Talk returns in a big way for this Australia / Survival Day 2016. Linguist Daniel...
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250: Comma Sutra (with Louisa Fitzhardinge)
The Talk the Talk team is taking a break, but Daniel jumped at the chance to speak to Louisa...
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283: Pun Intended (featuring Janani Krishnan-Jha and Hedvig Skirgård)
Puns. Some people love them, some people hate them. But why do some people find puns so...
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345: Talk on the Wild Side (featuring Lane Greene)
Author Lane Greene joins us to discuss his new book "Talk on the Wild Side". In the news: What...
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