Mr. Verb

Language changes.
Deal with it.
Revel in it.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Video slang dictionary: Say what

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Some readers of this little corner of the cyberverse may be interested in SayWhat: The people's video dictionary . Its founder describes...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

*uninsurance!!!

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Does anybody besides me remember Lexical Morphology?  I guess I'm thinking about it because I just finished teaching intro to morphology...
Monday, May 11, 2015

DARE fights on!!! And mangoes

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Need some good news? Then check out this story. The Dictionary of American Regional English is STILL surviving for now. I mean, it's t...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Mountain Man Linguistics

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Been a brutal year here in Wisconsin, as the state and the university are being steadily and intentionally destroyed. So, some good news i...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

LINGUIST list fund drive

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A message from some of the Wisconsin linguists … Folks, Most of you know that  LINGUIST  is now doing their annual fund drive. For fi...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Gothica Bononiensia

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One of our contributors noted a while back the discovery of new Gothic manuscript material ( here ).  The scholars who've done the decip...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Who Cares?

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My dad has had to listen to me talk about linguistics for over 30 years now, but the other night he asked me what linguists say when people ...
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LSA 'Foundation Members' from Wisconsin

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Somebody just told me about looking through the lists of original members of the Linguistic Society of America — they'd talked to someon...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Chicago Dialect Project

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There's a great new project on the development of English in Chicago. It's the Chicago Dialect Project. Check it out on Facebook  he...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Sociolinguistic Events Calendar

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Ever start something that becomes so successful you can't manage it at some point? Welcome to the lives of the people who started the S...
Saturday, January 03, 2015

LSA special session on the Publishing Process

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Pass the word ... Next Thursday afternoon at the Portland meeting of the LSA, there will be a special session on the Publishing Process, c...
Sunday, December 07, 2014

Does language really matter?

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People are talking today, rightly, about John McWhorter's piece in the NY Times,  " Why save a language? ".  But a similar que...
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