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Language Barrier Continues to Thwart Victims of Crimes
Photo: Josefina Ramirez said police officers ignored her request for an interpreter when responding to a 911 call she made after an argument with her landlord. RUTH FREMSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
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The New York Times: Words We Love Too Much By PHILIP B. CORBETT MAY 6, 2014, 8:00 AM
A colleague noted six uses of the description “deep-pocketed” in our copy in a single week not long ago. There were four more appearances during another recent week: “deep-pocketed investors,” “deep-pocketed donors” and “deep-pocketed tobacco companies” (twice).
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Why ‘Mr Stink’ beats ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ for children today
From The Sunday Telegraph ‘No friend is as loyal as a book,” said Ernest Hemingway. That gets to the key point about books, which is that they are basically friends. They make life better. Especially if you get into them young: only last week a study revealed that children who were read to early in […]
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin http://ift.tt/Shrv9b
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‘Horticultural pornography’ pictures of nice gardens or offensive language? | Mind your language
Not everyone finds it amusing to read in newspapers about food, property and now gardening ‘porn’ A reader has taken the Guardian to task for using terms such as “food porn”, “property porn”, and most recently (in a preview of the BBC television series British Gardens in Time) “horticultural pornography”. Continue reading… Mind your language […]