Language Log: The Chinese character for "XXX" translates as "YYY"
Today's "Get Fuzzy": I won't get into the dynamics of the complicated interrelationships between the steppe and the sown of Eurasia here, since Bucky's assertion of "fact" in the fourth panel of this...
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My post at Lingua Franca this week critiqued the following extraordinarily dumb piece of writing advice from Macmillan Dictionary Blog: Try this exercise: Go through a piece of writing, ideally an...
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