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Germany's Environment Minister got "merkel'ed" - Norbert Roettgen dismissed today for NRW debacle
Wed May 16, 2012 12:21 PM EDT
(Sarc) A new English verb in terms of political sciences should be added: to merkel = to sweep or push away unwanted political big heads in your own party, mostly male, from their posts due to unpopularity, plagiarizing, subjective fear of getting stabbed in the back by own poli …
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Obama Hits Syria With Brutal Blast of Adverbs
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:54 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
By Jeffrey Goldberg "The crackdown by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad against his own citizens counts as one of the most blood-soaked acts of political repression in the Middle East since his father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad, waged his own onslaught against anti-regime act …
7 Commonly Corrected Grammar Errors (That Aren't Mistakes)
Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:39 AM EDT (CRACKED.com)
By: Chris Bucholz "If you've written anything on the Internet in the past 20 years or so, whether on a forum, a comment thread or the Denny's corporate blog you maintain, a short time later you've probably experienced a feeling of pure, unalloyed irritation when you observed som …
Arguing About Language
Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:00 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Debates about linguistic norms typically set traditionalists against revisionists. The two sides are particularly entrenched because each is rooted in a fundamental truth: the traditionalists are right that the rules are the rules, and the revisionists are right that lang …
The Local List: 12 German words you won't find in English
Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:40 PM EDT (The Local - Germany's news in English)
For our latest Local List, we came up with Germany's best untranslatable words. It was a long list, but we whittled it down to our favourites. Any words you think we should've included?
Ironical Comment: Fight against official terminology with a K.I.S.S.
Mon Apr 2, 2012 11:47 AM EDT
Superiors in administrative entities rather like one-page reports with concise and comprehensible language than redundant bla-bla, right? Well, in order to do so, the depending civil servants and other administrative subordinates have to be quite creative in inventing monster ter …
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'Obamacare' Sounds Different When Supporters Say It: 'Obama does care. It's not pejorative at all. It's a wonderful thing'
Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:32 AM EDT (NPR)
Until recently, "Obamacare" was a word mostly used by opponents of President Obama's health care law. Now, supporters of the law are attempting to claim it as their own. During the three days of health care hearings, protesters outside of the Supreme Court in favor of the law …
The history of the English language - in 10 minutes! (Video)
Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:26 PM EDT
Hat tip, The Agonist.
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The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words
Seeded on Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:31 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google's massive collection of scanned books. They claim to have identi …
American Dialect Dictionary Completed After 50 Years
Seeded on Wed Feb 1, 2012 6:46 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
From whoopensocker to upscuddle, strubbly to swivet, 50 years after it was first conceived the Dictionary of American Regional English is finally about to reach the end of the alphabet. The fifth volume of the dictionary, covering "slab" to "zydeco", is out in March …
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