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		<title>Linguistic Magnetism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Watching language change is like watching a fish grow legs and crawl onto dry land. It&#8217;s no wonder Darwin was fascinated with language for some of the same reasons that drew him to biology: the two are similar evolution-wise. But unlike biological evolution, linguistic evolution (linguists call it “drift”) is wonderfully observable. Inside your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=237&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Talk?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should have gone to bed by now, but I stumbled across one of the most fascinating documentaries I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s a BBC Horizon program called Why Do We Talk? If you have an hour to spare, I highly recommend watching this. It&#8217;s entertaining, enlightening, and even surprising—and the music is great too. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=275&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Galileo&#8217;s Linguistics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t keep my head out of a linguistics book for the same reason that Galileo&#8217;s mother failed to make her son do something besides peer into his telescope all day. Astronomy had been around for centuries, but Galileo wasn&#8217;t convinced of the universally accepted model of the universe that had Earth as its center. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=249&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do as I Say, Not as I Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s quite stupid, if you think about it, when people break out into spontaneous song and dance in musicals. (Although there was that one time when the mailman, the garbageman, and I all started tap-dancing, and as we sang an original song about being discontent in suburbia, I wondered when I had gotten tap shoes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=212&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Genesis of Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: there is no conclusive evidence at this point, so until research dilutes theory into fact I propose an indefinite recess for the case of Linguists v. Where Does Language Come From. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll present the panoply of current arguments. Divine Origins The title of this post is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=174&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind if I Borrow That? (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://linguafrancablog.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/mind-if-i-borrow-that-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized when I started writing a two-part post that a lot of people were only going to read one part. I do suggest you actually read Part One (it&#8217;s not too long, and there is at least one hot chick), but if you&#8217;re too lazy motivationally disinclined here is the official summary: Official Summary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=159&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind if I Borrow That? (Part One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The English language is like that neighbor down the street who buys a new toaster as soon as French does. He gets a security system when German does, and the day after Hindu hangs vermillion curtains you can be sure English will, too—vermillion with stripes. Even Navajo, who used to own the house English lives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=100&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double Negs: Don&#8217;t Listen to No Myths</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black English is illiterate, incorrect, ungrammatical slang, and it makes absolutely no sense. That&#8217;s the gospel according to most of white America, whose grammar rules were apparently delivered on Mount Sinai as an appendix to the Ten Commandments. Quoth Moses: A double negative is described by some, with a discreet cough, as &#8220;nonstandard.&#8221; In truth, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=55&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prepostrophe&#8217;s: Why They Don&#8217;t Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most grammarians have a special area in their brain called the apocalypithalamus whose sole purpose is to send them into convulsions whenever they spot a misuse of that backwards, second cousin of the comma: the apostrophe. The late self-styled &#8220;excruciating curmudgeon&#8221; William Safire, for instance, spent a large chunk of his life vituperating against misplaced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=22&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Tuned</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Dickinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please, curb your exhilaration. This blog is indeed exciting, but you&#8217;ll need your energy later for when there are actual posts. And when I say it is coming soon I don&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not coming soon, I mean it is coming soon. This is no 1990s &#8220;Under Construction&#8221; warning, folks. The content is actually, truly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linguafrancablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9927764&amp;post=6&amp;subd=linguafrancablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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