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Notes from a talk at UCL Language, Religion and Identity in Israel Dr Ghil`ad Zuckermann "The greatest virtue of a new word is that it is not new."—Yechiel Michal Pínes, 1893 versus "It is absolutely impossible to empty out words filled to bursting, unless one does so at the expense of language i...

You do not have the right to have a cup of coffee in the morning. "WTF?" you're thinking, "I totally do." No, you don't. You're totally allowed. It's perfectly legal. It's your own coffee purchased with your own hard-earned money. No one is going to stop you. Most people will even offer you coffee i...

{ LJ Hooker, real estate agency, New Zealand | Thanks Meagan! } unrelated { John Lee Hooker — Hobo Blues }...

Phil 310, Metaphysics, is a course in some core topics in Western Philosophy, including the Free Will Problem, the Mind-Body Problem, related problems in Philosophy of Mind, and the Problem of Personal Identity. (…) Even after this careful description, I still get students who misunderstand th...

Is the H in "historic" properly pronounced in any dialect? I pronounce it on principle (a practice that predates Eddie Izzard, by the way), but I've heard people say "an historic" in Canadian, US, and UK English....

One of SC's favorite sessions at the 2009 LSA meeting was titled "Computational Linguistics: Implementation of Analyses against Data". Go here for a listing of the papers (it's session #30). There was a very conscious effort this year, driven very clearly by the efforts of Emily Bender and...

One of my goals for this year is to learn spoken Mandarin Chinese. Given that I live and work in China it only makes sense that I learn the language which will ultimately help improve both hopefully. Also given that Mandarin is one of the harder languages to learn (hard as in virtually impossible if...

As the end of the year approaches, I guess it is a time for reflection. Oh, I suppose resolutions for the new year. For those you can paste in mine from four years ago , as I am still striving on them. 2008 was kind of my worst year for as long as I have been alive. The year Liz died (ref: Burying t...