Tag Archives: linguistics

Stuck in a parked car at midnight

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Cora

I actually have a longer post partly drafted, but I don’t have the energy to finish and post it tonight. Because tonight the daylight saving time changeover night, hence the night is one hour shorter anyway. Which infuriates me, because … Continue reading →

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Publish or Perish – New Academic Paper Online

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Cora

If you want to check out my academic work, my first paper has been published: “Science Fiction und die Zukunft der Englischen Sprache: Neologismen, Vereinfachungen, Kreolisierungen oder lieber gleich Klingonisch?”, an academic paper on language and science fiction I presented … Continue reading →

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Linkdump for a Crappy Weekend

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Cora

Since this weekend has turned out to be so bad, here are some links, mostly writing and language related, to take your mind of the bad stuff for a while: Here is a very informative site, created by a professor … Continue reading →

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New Ways of Mispronouncing “Duke”

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Cora

For some reason, Germans have incredible problems pronouncing the word “Duke”, probably because the [dju] combination does not normally occur in German. To date, my favourite mispronunciation happens in the German crime thriller Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse (Dr. Mabuse … Continue reading →

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Oh Joy! – Yet more on Plagiarism, Nihilism and Prescriptive Linguists – Oh, Joy!

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Cora

The spam catcher plug-in I use is normally fairly effective, but it also has its moments of fail. Today, it let through an obvious spam comment (for online shoe shops of all things), while a legitimate comment got caught in … Continue reading →

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Plagiarism, Vampires, Nihilist Fantasy and the latest Genre Dust-up

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Cora

I’m busy with work, but lots of other interesting things happened online and off. Hence, I have lots of links for you today under the cut:

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A Cold Day on the Town

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Cora

Since yesterday was the peculiar holiday known as report card holiday, i.e. two days of no school after the half term report cards have been given out, I decided to take the opportunity to go into Bremen. Actually I wanted … Continue reading →

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Strunk, White and Sex

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Cora

I dug out a long abandoned short story with the idea of reviving and finishing it and got a lot of writing done. So here are some writing links: The Financial Times discusses style guides and what does and does … Continue reading →

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Three Times Hallelujah and Your Mama

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Cora

Today, I chanced to hear the song “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen three times in a single day. Which is quite unusual, because even though there are umpteen thousand cover versions, it isn’t played all that often. The first time was … Continue reading →

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Links, mainly tech related

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Cora

Estara has been kind enough to create a Livejournal feed for this blog. So if anybody else needs one, here it is. John Scalzi has a rant about Facebook and why he doesn’t like it. He gets quite a bit … Continue reading →

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