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Anthropomorphic language – it’s only human (The Guardian)
A little while ago, I went for a walk and spotted a frog in the middle of the pavement.
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Language Anxieties: A long decline (The Economist 12-Feb-2015)
THE English language, we all know, is in decline.
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NYT (4 Feb 2015) Philosophy’s Lost Body and Soul By GEORGE YANCY and LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF
This is the sixth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Linda Martín Alcoff, a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She was the president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, for 2012-13. She is […]
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Hedging Our Bets
After deadline (NYT)
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Using ‘literally’ metaphorically is literally spreading like wildfire (The Guardian 24-10-2014)
Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce all did it. (HW Fowler disapproved.) Should ‘literally’ be used to mean its opposite?
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Not enough time for counting (The Economist 23-10-2014)
Oct 23rd 2014, 16:51 BY R.L.G. | BERLIN IS BARACK Obama a narcissist? Charles Krauthammer thinks so, and he should know.