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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Deborah Fallows: Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language
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From Booklist: Fallows manages to take the relatively dry subject of translation and create a warm and witty memoir. Dwelling less on her ow...
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Jonathon Keats: Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology
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The Boston Globe recently wrote about the book: “Virtual Words,” by Jonathon Keats, who writes the Jargon Watch column in WIRED magazine. We...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
How Language is Changing from KERA's Think Podcast
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Syndicated description: [2010-12-20 13:00:00] From the archives: How is language changing and what do we lose when a language disappears for...
Friday, December 17, 2010
Political Euphemisms from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Publi
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Ralph Keyes , author of many books including the new Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms , talks about the prevalence of euphemisms ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
"'Pushing Up Daisies' And Our Passion For Euphemisms" from NPR's talk of the Nation
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From "passed away" to "Chilean sea bass," euphemisms are a way to avoid unpleasant terms or phrases. But in Euphemania ,...
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