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sister_luck) wrote2012-11-25 04:46 pm
sister_luck) wrote2012-11-25 04:46 pm
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Sunday language linkage.
If I manage to do it twice in a row, does it become a tradition?
Again a link to LanguageLog which this week gave us two vintage postcards and the commenters breaking the code used by the original writers.
There are also the Word of the Year lists going around - with Separated by a Common Language looking for words migrating between British English and American English. Leave your nominations over there.
I've also decided that there needs to be an International English Word of the Year and it has to be YOLO, because my students keep using it, not only in English lessons, but also thrown into German conversations. I'm convinced the trend will be short-lived - they will soon be embarrassed about writing it on their knuckles and all over their books, but its spread has been spectacular. In his Word column in the Boston Globe from August Ben Zimmer explains it to those over 25 (who don't get into regular contact with teenagers, I should add).
Again a link to LanguageLog which this week gave us two vintage postcards and the commenters breaking the code used by the original writers.
There are also the Word of the Year lists going around - with Separated by a Common Language looking for words migrating between British English and American English. Leave your nominations over there.
I've also decided that there needs to be an International English Word of the Year and it has to be YOLO, because my students keep using it, not only in English lessons, but also thrown into German conversations. I'm convinced the trend will be short-lived - they will soon be embarrassed about writing it on their knuckles and all over their books, but its spread has been spectacular. In his Word column in the Boston Globe from August Ben Zimmer explains it to those over 25 (who don't get into regular contact with teenagers, I should add).