One important rule of writing, one I too often break, is to choose words carefully with the intended audience in mind. For ...
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'Daughter's promise' inspires Darkinyung dictionary to revive sleepy language
Aunty Bronwyn says she promised her father, Ronald Williams, she would revive the Darkinyung language. (Supplied: Bronwyn ...
Each year, Dictionary.com calls on wordsmiths and linguists to craft an original opening to a scary story, but there's a ...
Without such a framework, the language risks continued fragmentation, inconsistent development, and limited functionality in ...
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A linguistic game of definitions
Oftentimes definitions can limit you, imposing unnecessary constraints, enclosing things within the four corners of a narrow, ...
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In tariff cases, verbs rather than major pronouncements about presidential power give the court the off-ramp it’s looking for
Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state.
Emerence Cardinal, a "master speaker" of Tetsǫ́t'ıné and co-author of a dictionary of the language, has died. She was 79 years old. Her son, Steven Nitah, told the CBC's Loren McGinnis that he'll ...
Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi (1924 –1992) was shocked when he got to Mecca for the first time in 1955 and discovered that the city had no streetlights. Sheikh Gumi was an Islamic scholar and Grand ...
Grammar expert June Casagrande tackles the use of hyphens with a close look at eight multiword terms that writers sometimes get wrong.
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At Yale University, things are getting Orwellian
Yale has a proud legacy of addressing events of the day and defending the principles of civility in a free society.
You’re perusing a news article when there, right in the middle of a quote, is the word sic encased in brackets. Since this is far from the first article you’ve ever read, maybe you already know what ...
As net zero claims fracture, international standards are creating a unified, verifiable framework that could reshape ...
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