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word Book Week 2019: David Shariatmadari's Don't Believe a Word By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:05:00 +0000 Welcome to the third review post of Book Week 2019. In the intro to Book Week 2019, I explain what I'm doing this week. In the end, there will be four posts. I thought there would be five, but one of the books has (orig. BrE) gone missing. Having had a day off yesterday, I will also have a day off tomorrow, so the final review will appear during the weekend. Probably.Anyhow, today's book is: Don't believe a wordthe surprising truth about languageby David ShariatmadariNorton, 2019 (N America)W&N, 2019 (UK/RoW)David Shariatmadari writes for the Guardian, often about language, and is one of the sensible journalists on the topic. The number of sensible journalists writing about language has really shot up in the past decade, and judging from reading their books, this is in part because of increasingly clear, public-facing work by academic linguists. (Yay, academic linguists!) But in Shariatmadari's case, the journalist is a linguist: he has a BA and MA in the subject. And it shows—in the best possible way. The book is a familiar genre: busting widely held language myths. If you've read books in this genre before, you probably don't need these myths busted. You probably know that linguistic change is natural, that the border between language and dialect is unfindable, that apes haven't really learned sign languages, and that no form of language is inherently superior to another. Nevertheless, you may learn something new, since Shariatmadari's tastes for linguistic research and theories is not always on the same wavelength as some other books directed at such a general audience. Once again, I'm reviewing with a partial view of the book (this is the practical law of Book Week 2019). In this case, I've read chapters 1, 5, and 9 and skimmed through other bits. The introductory chapter gives us a bit of insight into Shariatmadari's conversion to full-blown linguist, as a reluctant student of Arabic who was quickly converted to admiration for the language and to the study of language as an insight into humanity. "It's not hyperbole to say that linguistics is the universal social science", he writes. "It intrudes into almost every area of knowledge."UK coverI chose to read chapter 5 because I'd had the pleasure of hearing him talk about its topic at a student conference recently: the popularity of "untranslatable word" lists. Goodness knows, I've contributed to them. What I liked about the talk was his detective work on the words themselves—some of the words and definitions presented in lists of 'untranslatables' are practically fictional. And yet, those of us who don't speak the language in question often eat up these lists because of our ethnocentric need to exotici{s/z}e others. This leads inevitably to discussion of linguistic relativism—the notion that the language you speak affects the way you think—and the bad, old (so-called) evidence for it and the newer evidence for something much subtler. The chapter then goes in a direction I wasn't expecting: introducing Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), an interesting (but far from universally taught) approach to meaning that uses about 65 semantic building blocks to represent and compare meanings across languages. NSM adherents make the case that few, if any, words are truly equivalent across languages. But while any word in one language may have no single-word equivalent in another language, that doesn't mean those words are untranslatable. It just means that translating them can be a delicate and complicated thing. US coverThe final chapter (9) takes the opposite view to David Adger's Language Unlimited (in my last review), and argues that the hierarchical (and human-specific) nature of linguistic structure need not be the product of an innate Universal Grammar, but instead could arise from the complexity of the system involved and humans' advanced social cognition. While Adger had a whole book for his argument, Shariatmadari has 30-odd pages, and so it's not really fair to compare them in terms of the depth of their argumentation, but still worth reading the latter to get a sense of how linguists and psychologists are arguing about these things.Shariatmadari is a clear and engaging writer, and includes a good range of references and a glossary of linguistic terminology. If you know someone who still believes some language myths, this might be a good present for them. (Though in my experience, people don't actually like getting presents that threaten their worldview. I still do it, because I care more about myth-busting writers earning royalties than I care about linguistic chauvinists getting presents they want.) It would also make an excellent gift for A-level English and language students (and teachers) and others who might be future linguists. After they read it, send them my way. I love having myth-busted students. Full Article books grammar linguistic relativity
word 2019 UK-to-US Word of the Year: knock-on By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:32:00 +0000 It's the end of the year, and time to declare the Separated by a Common Language Words of the Year. As ever, I've got two categories: US-to-UK and UK-to-US. In other words: I'm interested in borrowings between these national dialects. To be a SbaCL WoTY, the word doesn't have to have been imported precisely in that year—it just needs to have been noticeable in some way. For past WotYs, see here. I'll post the US-to-UK word soon; this post is for UK-to-US.I've been noticing a lot of Britishisms in American English this year (and, as ever, Ben Yagoda is recording many of them at his Not One-Off Britishisms [NOOB] blog). I've decided to go with one nominated by Neil Dolinger last month. The UK-to-US SbaCL Word of the Year is:knock-onThe relevant sense is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: Being a secondary or indirect consequence of another action, occurrence, or eventIt's most commonly found in the phrase knock-on effect, which is first recorded in the OED in 1972. Knock-on itself seems to have passed into general usage from physics:Ben Yagoda's blog had knock-on effect as an "on-the-radar NOOB" in 2012, and the reason I've chosen it as the 2019 UK-to-US Word of the Year is its 2018-19 surge in US usage, as can be seen here in the US portion of the News on the Web corpus:Of the 612 US examples of it in this corpus, 481 are in the phrase knock-on effect(s). Another 83 are followed by another noun, such as impact, employment, and delays.It's still very much a British expression: while knock-on still occurs about 5 times per million British words in the News on the Web corpus, it's still less than once per million in the US news corpus (.63 in 2019 overall). And that corpus is showing the marks of globali{s/z}ation—a frequent source of knock-on in the US data is from the US edition of the UK paper The Guardian and of the Irish Times international edition. Still, it is showing up in a lot of homegrown US media: local news channels, the Washington Post, Forbes, Variety, and others:Click to enlarge Why is it more common in the first half of each year than the second? Well, for 2019, there are no examples after October, so I think that might be an effect of the corpus collection methods. It could also be because of rugby, in which knock-on is a noun (for when the ball is knocked forward). The Six Nations tournament starts in February and 4 out of 24 US examples of knock-on in February 2019 and 4 of 13 in March have the rugby sense. By contrast, in January and April, zero of the 29 US hits have the rugby sense. So, while there is definitely noise from the rugby sense in two months of the year, that effect seems limited. I'll let Ben Yagoda have the last say about whether this shift is enough to take it from "on the radar" to being a full-blown Not One-Off Britishism in the US, but I thank Neil for nominating it. But before I go, it seems fitting to mention this dialectal difference: BrE Heath Robinson machine versus AmE Rube Goldberg machine. You can click on the links to learn about their namesakes, but here's an OK Go video to illustrate knock-on effects, just for fun. Happy New Year! Full Article adjectives idioms WotY
word 2019 US-to-UK Word of the Year: gotten By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:46:00 +0000 For part 1 of the 2019 Words of the Year, click here. Now we're on to the US-to-UK WotY.Radzi Chinyanganya, WotY inspirationI had pretty much decided not to do a US-to-UK Word of the Year for 2019. The words nominated were generally ones that had made a big splash in English recently on both sides of the Atlantic, rather than long-standing Americanisms that were making a splash in Britain. I had begun to think that BrE had reached peak Americanism. But then I went through my top tweets of the year, and saw one that made me think: "Oh yeah, that's it."The US-to-UK Word of the Year is: gottenHere's the tweet that reminded me: I'll admit getting teary over @iamradzi's departure from Blue Peter, but the reason (for a linguist) to watch his 'best of' episode is the number of times he says 'gotten'. It really is making a comeback in UK. If we can resurrect a verb paradigm, imagine what else we can do ????— Lynne Murphy (@lynneguist) April 30, 2019 Now, this choice might be controversial in that gotten is not just and not originally American. It is one of those linguistic things that mostly died in the UK while it thrived in the US. When I moved to the UK, a colleague told me that you'd still hear gotten among old people in Yorkshire. I haven't had the chance to bother any old people in Yorkshire about that, but -en forms of get were found far and wide in English dialects. That said, the OED has it as "chiefly U.S." and it is widely perceived in the UK as an Americanism. In England you do hear it more from Americans (in the media, if not in person) than from British folk. Here's a bit of what I said about it in The Prodigal Tongue:That part of the book goes on to examine the evidence that gotten only really got going in the US—that it was not used much in the formal English of those who came from England to the Americas, and that its use exploded only in the late 19th century, when the US was finding a voice of its own. (Want to know more? I have a book to sell you!)So, while gotten is not just American nor originally American, America is where gotten made its fortune. The "standard" British participle for get is have got, as discussed (along with its meaning) in this old post.What's interesting about gotten in Britain in 2019 is that it's been used quite a bit in places where you don't tend to hear non-standard, regional grammatical forms: like on the BBC and in Parliament. And I have heard it among my child's middle-class (orig. AmE) tween friends here in the southeast. Here are some interesting examples, besides our friend Radzi.* On the CBeebies (BBC channel for young children) website:In a BBC news story about an orange seagull in Buckinghamshire:Hospital staff said the bird "had somehow gotten himself covered in curry or turmeric". In the linguistically (and otherwise) conservative Telegraph newspaper:**Yet, it is the ageing filter that has gotten most people talking.By then-Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, who got into trouble for saying:The Lib Dems have gotten kind of Taliban, haven’t they? And in the House of Commons:"I would like to share some of the thoughts of organisations that have gotten in touch in recent days to share their experience of training mental health first aiders..." —Luciana Berger, 17 Jan 2019"...those in Sinn Féin say, 'Well, we’ve gotten away with two years of saying we’re not going back into government until...'" —Gregory Campbell, 5 Mar 2019 "...the mess that this place has gotten itself into..." —Deirdre Brock 19 Mar 2019"...the best way of dealing with this is not through a voluntary levy based on the least that can be gotten away with" —Jim Shannon, 2 July 2019There's a difference, though, between the ones from the House of Commons and the others. The parliamentary ones have gotten in a set phrase of some sort. It's long been the case that British speakers say gotten in close proximity to mess and into, since they're alluding to Laurel and Hardy films, where gotten is indeed the form. And in the other cases above, we've got gotten away with and gotten in touch, which are figurative and idiomatic uses. (Neither of those particular idioms is particularly American.) Since gotten is heard in Parliament as part of set phrases, it's not clear that it would be a 'normal' way for those speakers to form the past participle of get in general.The other examples above (and indeed Radzi's uses that inspired my original tweet) are have gotten just as a plain old verb in its many meanings. Those interest me more because they do seem more like the re-introduction of the get-got-gotten paradigm, and not just certain constructions that have been remembered with a certain verb form. A lot of the British gotten that I've been exposed to is from homegrown children's television and children, and that's what really seals it for me as a 2019 word. After 20 years of not hearing it much (and training myself out of saying it much), I'm really noticing it. You can find lots of people, particularly older people, in the UK talking about its ugliness or wrongness, but the fact that younger people are un-self-consciously saying it makes me think that it will get bigger still.And on that note, a bit later than is decent, I say goodbye to 2019! Footnotes:* I haven't presented corpus numbers in this post, since the bulk of the gotten numbers in corpora tend to be (in news) quoted Americans or (in other things) in set phrases. The Hansard corpus tool at Huddersfield University doesn't seem to be able to separate the gottens from the ill-gottens—which is a form that has remained in BrE despite the more general loss of gotten.** (I got quite a few google hits for gotten in the Telegraph, for which I could see the gotten in the preview. But for some, when I clicked through, the same sentence had got. Might this be because some stories were originally posted with gotten then changed when the "error" was caught?) Full Article morphology WotY
word Critical Bugs Found in 3 Popular e-Learning Plugins for WordPress Sites By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:07:09 PDT Security researchers are sounding the alarm over newly discovered vulnerabilities in some popular online learning management system (LMS) plugins that various organizations and universities use to offer online training courses through their WordPress-based websites. According to the Check Point Research Team, the three WordPress plugins in question — LearnPress, LearnDash, and LifterLMS — Full Article
word New Android Malware Steals Banking Passwords, Private Data and Keystrokes By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 05:09:01 PDT A new type of mobile banking malware has been discovered abusing Android's accessibility features to exfiltrate sensitive data from financial applications, read user SMS messages, and hijack SMS-based two-factor authentication codes. Called "EventBot" by Cybereason researchers, the malware is capable of targeting over 200 different financial apps, including banking, money transfer services, Full Article
word Prenez soin de vous + Take care of your French with a dozen more words By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:42:10 +0200 A gift from our guest: dried cyclamen, a ballet of expressive flowers! Today's Expression: Prenez soin de vous : take care of yourself (plural: yourselves) Audio file: Click here to listen to today's phrase in French and English A DAY IN A FRENCH LIFE by Kristi Espinasse Someone close to us, someone young and strong, had an accident--une chute while alone at home-- followed by a trip to ER for some points! The emotional and physical scars are there, but our bien-aimé is here with us now and will stay in time to recover from the choc. Today's short entry is a reminder to you and me to continue to check in with those who are living alone. Which of our friends are on their own? Which family members? Which colleagues? Have you seen the post lady lately? Big, strong, young? Grand, fort, jeune? Don't forget to check on these ones! Check on everyone. Self-check. Vérifie! I am off to check on our guest, who somehow managed--between the ER and here--to pack a bunch of goodies for us to share at the table: gingembre, poireaux, citrons, oranges--les agrumes--which have since been added to soup and put into a simple cake.... Full Article
word In a Word By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:01:01 +0000 viator n. a wayfarer; traveler nocuous adj. likely to cause harm or damage fulminant adj. exploding or detonating aggerose adj. in heaps British director Cecil Hepworth made “How It Feels To Be Run Over” in 1900. The car is on the wrong side of the road. (The intertitle at the end, “Oh! Mother will be pleased,” may have been scratched directly into the celluloid.) Hepworth followed it up with “Explosion of a Motor Car,” below, later the same year. Full Article Entertainment History Language Technology
word Using PHPMyadmin to delete old tables in your WordPress database By chimac.net Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 14:45:13 +0000 I had to use PHPMyadmin a few days ago to delete old tables in my WordPress Database. They were created by a plugin that I tried but decided not to use. Normally when you uninstall a plugin the developer deletes the tables in your database that they create. In this case this author didn’t. It […] Full Article Opinion
word Choice words By steeple.church Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:01:40 +0100 Poor Maggie. The road to hell is paved with good intentions etc etc Full Article
word Louder Than Swords By amvnews.ru Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 08:24:31 +0300 My biggest edit of all time, I'm usually against action videos This long, but the song is fucking good I can't avoid it. I'm really tired, probably the IC video I spend the most time and effort, I won't edit demon slayer again until the movie comes out. Hope Ya'll Enjoy ИнформацияАвтор: Lyon Amv Аниме: Kimetsu no Yaiba Музыка: Les Friction - Louder Than Words Подробнее → Full Article
word How to Change the Message Shown Before the Comments Field in WordPress By www.thesitewizard.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:44:11 GMT If you run a WordPress blog, and want to customize the message that is shown in the "Leave a Reply" section of your post (where you visitors enter their comments), this article shows you how, using a method that will allow your changes to persist even when your theme files auto-update. Full Article WordPress blogging webmaster child theme
word Derbyshire 97 Chesterfield small random acts of kindness The Five tests The R word Here comes the sun E45 By www.travelblog.org Published On :: Goedemorgen to you all . We would have probably woken up in Belgium this morning having dined on waffles or frites last night . I am sure that the sun would be shining as we rose . The sun has arrived here so the chances are Belgium would have been just as Full Article
word Our own WordPress plugin for automated posting campaigns By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:04:11 +0000 We have developed our own WordPress plugin which will help connect to your blog avoiding the use of XML-RPC. The post Our own WordPress plugin for automated posting campaigns appeared first on RSSground.com. Full Article RSS Ground News
word Chaser, the language-learning dog with a 1,000-word vocabulary, has died By www.pbs.org Published On :: The border collie achieved international fame for her remarkable grasp on vocabulary and sentence structure. Full Article
word End of the world? Close -- a mix-up with Sunday crossword By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:48:00 -0500 The crossword in Sunday's Arts & Books section was titled "The Last Sunday Crossword" and noted that according to the Mayan calendar, the world was going to end "this Friday, Dec. 21." Full Article
word Sunday's crossword was messed up. Here's the correct version By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 18:40:00 -0400 The Sunday crossword for March 11, "Commercial Break," was published with an incorrect puzzle grid. Full Article
word Al Worden, Apollo 15 astronaut who circled the moon, dies at 88 By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:50:42 -0400 Worden performed the first deep-space spacewalk — nearly 200,000 miles from Earth Full Article
word The beats and emojis flow as spoken-word open-mics shelter on Instagram By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:12:45 -0400 When COVID-19 hit, spoken-word venues like Da Poetry Lounge and Olivia Open Mic went online, keeping verse flowing and raising funds for artists. Full Article
word Kim Kardashian West endorses spoken word album about Armenian genocide By www.jpost.com Published On :: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:26:57 GMT Kardashian is of Armenian heritage, Friday marked the 105th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Full Article history Kim Kardashian Armenian genocide
word Why is the Government trusting the word of this ‘genius’, says FREDERICK FORSYTH By www.express.co.uk Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:44:00 +0100 AMONG the many foolish vanities to which Mankind subscribes is the belief he can foretell the future. He has been trying since time immemorial. First there were chicken entrails, then animal bones, progressing to the stars, palms, crystal balls, tarot cards and tea leaves. All methods were consistent to 90 per cent - they were all bunkum and remain so. Now overtaking them all is the pseudo-scientist/boffin. Full Article
word Tully: Amid Trump's ugliness, wise words at St. Thomas Aquinas Church By rssfeeds.indystar.com Published On :: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:22:38 +0000 St. Thomas Aquinas Church has long worked with communities in Haiti and Africa. The church responded to the president's recent comments. Full Article
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word Barack Obama says the 'I' word By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:41:29 +0000 In his big speech on Libya, President Barack Obama answered two big questions, left two hanging in the air, and rewrote some recent history. He said he had ordered military action in Libya to prevent a massacre that would have "stained the conscience of the world", and would have meant "the democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power". He said that that "would have been a betrayal of who we are. Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action." Having dealt with critics who say he's gone too far, Mr Obama turned to those who say he hasn't gone far enough. He said the world would be a better place without Col Muammar Gaddaffi, but to widen military aims to get rid of him would have splintered the coalition and meant American boots on the ground. "To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq's future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya." In this, he is preparing people for what may be quite a messy period, and he warned that Libya will remain dangerous until Col Gaddafi goes, that the Libyan leader may cling to power for a while, but that his people had been given "time and space" to decide their own destiny. This is one question hanging in the air. How far is the coalition acting as the rebel air force? It may not be targeting the top man, but is it intent on destroying his military force? How thin is the line between driving off an army that may attack civilians and destroying that army in case they do? The other question left hanging was whether there was such a thing as an "Obama doctrine", or at least a consistent approach to intervention. On the one hand, he seemed to argue against those who said America should not police the world: "There will be times, though, when our safety is not directly threatened, but our interests and values are." However, he accepted that didn't mean action in every case. "It is true that America cannot use our military wherever repression occurs. And given the costs and risks of intervention, we must always measure our interests against the need for action. But that cannot be an argument for never acting on behalf of what's right." So he seems to be saying, sometimes you do, sometimes you don't, take each case on its merit. But what struck me most forcibly was the determined, confident tone of the speech. Every single news conference, sound bite or statement so far by Mr Obama has stressed that the UK and France were in the lead, the Arabs were supporting, the US was just part of a broad coalition. They've been thoughtful and a little hesitant. Those were the "on the road" snapshots. This was the air-brushed studio portrait. Now Mr Obama repeatedly talked of the decisions he took, his leadership, his reasoning for taking firm action. The fact that the US mission is winding down and that it is handing over control to Nato was in there, but it wasn't the emphasis. Now it seems as if the action has worked, Mr Obama is claiming credit. The "I" word was to the fore, and I don't just mean Iraq. Full Article
word Education: 59 Million Words 教育： 5千9百万字 By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: 2009-03-05T11:15:25+00:00 Some people like to read something more unusual than magazines or books. Take Away English reports. Full Article Tae Takeaway English
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word How to View and Control WordPress Cron Jobs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:55:39 +0000 What is a Cron Job? Cron Jobs are basically scheduled tasks that are created automatically by WordPress or a WordPress Plugin that you have activated on your website. They are similar to an alarm clock that goes off regularly to trigger an automative response. Before we delve into explaining how you can view and control […] The post How to View and Control WordPress Cron Jobs appeared first on Tips and Tricks HQ. Full Article Video Tutorial Wordpress Cron Cron Jobs Error how to Troubleshooting Wordpress Plugin WordPress tutorial
word Create a Squeeze Form in a Popup for WordPress By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:17:03 +0000 If you intend on offering downloadable content from your WordPress website, using the Simple Download Monitor Plugin will allow you to do so. Furthermore, if you wish to collect say your user’s name and email address in a neat and tidy popup window before the download commences, then the Squeeze Form Addon can be used. […] The post Create a Squeeze Form in a Popup for WordPress appeared first on Tips and Tricks HQ. Full Article Video Tutorial Wordpress digital downloads Download Downloadable Item Downloads Pop Up Window Squeeze Form Tips & Tricks Wordpress Plugin
word Never Give Your Password Over the Phone By www.sans.org Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00:00 EST Never give your password to someone over the phone. If someone calls you and asks for your password while saying they are from the Help Desk or Tech Support team, it is an attacker attempting to gain access to your account. Full Article
word Trump’s immigration policies speak louder than his racist, xenophobic words By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 23:31:27 +0000 Sadly, the most recent horrors are not an aberration. Full Article
word Picture books can be worth a million words By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:15 EDT A recent article from Edutopia suggested that we’re rushing young children through childhood. Full Article
word How to Convert Pages to Word Doc Online with iCloud By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 15:59:03 +0000 Do you own both a Windows PC and macOS device like the MacBook Pro or iMac? If so, you might run into file compatibility issues while you switch between your computers or software. More specifically, if you utilize software like Pages which is a part of the iWork productivity suite, you might not be able ... Read More Full Article Apple.com iPad iPhone Mac Tips & Tricks convert pages to word iCloud tips tricks windows
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word How to do Keyword Research for SEO By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:00:54 +0000 Keyword research is the backbone of your online presence. It’s common knowledge that this practice determines your rankings and visibility in the organic search. However, the way keyword research is done has changed over time. Today, using Google’s Keyword Planner to find phrases with a high search volume and optimizing your site for them is not […] The post How to do Keyword Research for SEO appeared first on ReadWrite. Full Article Marketing keyword marketing SEO
word Why You Should Use Power Words and CTAs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Do you want to sell more? Who doesn’t? But you might be missing out on some key conversions because you’re not using the right words to promote your products or services. Take a new approach to writing with some proven “power” words that increase conversions because they deliver reasons to buy, appeal to our […] Full Article
word A Type of Computing: NYTimes Crossword Moves from AWS to Google App Engine By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:30:00 +0000 Full Article Cloud Google
word CBD Press Release: From words to action - key organizations team up to stop the extinction crisis. By www.cbd.int Published On :: Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
word Offensive Words/Phrases: Who Should Know Better? By blogs.ams.org Published On :: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:49:52 +0000 Required reading for any academic is Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain.” In the first few pages an older, tenured professor is “forced to retire.” Why? There were two students who never were present when he called roll. Even after roll … Continue reading → Full Article attracting math majors books funny things students say math in the media minorities in mathematics outreach public awareness of mathematics social aspects of math life Social situations with students academia hypocrisy language political correctness
word Cancer and COVID-19: Facing the 'C words' By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (JAMA Network) This essay discusses similarities between a doctor's experiences with diagnoses of cancer and COVID-19. Full Article
word The dynamics of dissent: when actions are louder than words By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 02 May 2019 10:01:15 +0000 2 May 2019 , Volume 95, Number 3 In the latest issue a collection of articles explore how international norms are increasingly contested by both state and non-state actors. Read online Anette Stimmer and Lea Wisken A profusion of international norms influences state behaviour. Ambiguities and tensions in the normative framework can give rise to contestation. While research on norm contestation has focused on open debates about norms, we identify a second type of norm contestation where norms are contested through particular forms of implementation. We therefore distinguish between contestation through words and actions, that is, discursive and behavioural contestation. Discursive contestation involves debates about the meaning and/or (relative) importance of norms. Behavioural contestation, by contrast, eschews such debates. Instead, different norm understandings become apparent in the different ways in which actors shape the implementation of norms. Despite being a potentially powerful mechanism of challenging and changing norms, behavioural contestation has fallen outside the purview of the literature in part because it frequently remains below the radar. The two forms of contestation overlap when the practices of behavioural contestation are brought to the attention of and discussed by the international community. Thus, discursive and behavioural contestation are not mutually exclusive but can happen at the same time, sequentially or independently of each other. This introduction to a special section of the May 2019 issue of International Affairs, on ‘The dynamics of dissent’, develops the concept of behavioural contestation and outlines triggers and effects of this hitherto under-researched expression of dissent. Full Article
word CROSSWORD! (or: Diversion as a vehicle for conversation on power and usage) By blogs.ams.org Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:00:55 +0000 There is so much that is peculiar, irregular, silly, or downright twisted in mathematical verbiage that, certainly, we could all benefit from some soul-searching on the language of our culture. Some of mathematics usage is confusing (e. g. overuse of … Continue reading → Full Article Crossword Puzzles Math Games Math in Pop Culture puzzles crossword language
word Building Therapeutic Relationships: Choosing Words That Put People First By clinical.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2017-01-01 Jane K. DickinsonJan 1, 2017; 35:51-54Commentary Full Article
word Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word | Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:19:08 +0000 Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor leads a thoughtful and history-backed examination of one of the most divisive words in the English language: the N-word. Drawing from personal experience, she explains how reflecting on our points of encounter with the word can help promote productive discussions and, ultimately, create a framework that reshapes education around the complicated history of racism in the US. Full Article Higher Education
word Researchers Once Found That People Believe In “Climate Change” More Than “Global Warming” — But Word Choice No Longer Seems To Matter By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:48:50 +0000 By Jesse Singal. Study fails to replicate 2011 result, suggesting that word choice matters less as issue has become more politicised. Full Article environmental Language Replications
word Why Is Fidelity Always Seen as the New Four-Letter Word? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Fidelity is often seen as a bad word in school, but it doesn't have to be that way. In this guest blog by George Toman, the concept of fidelity is explained and defended. Full Article Nebraska
word Should Schools Have an N-Word Policy? Uproar Over Guard's Firing Forces Hard Questions By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 The firing of a black staff member for repeating the n-word while telling a black student not to use it underscores how uneasy many districts, schools, and educators are with handling the use of racist language in any context. Full Article Wisconsin
word Dyslexia Is Not a Bad Word, Advocates Say. Schools Should Use It By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 A push to get dyslexia defined in state law and persuade educators to use the term has translated to new laws in 40 states. Full Article Wisconsin
word Dealing With Dyslexia: 'It's Almost Like It's a Naughty Word' (Video) By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 24 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 When Scott Gann learned his son Dustin had dyslexia, he was shocked at the school's reaction. No one there wanted to use the word. Full Article Arkansas
word Offensive words in wills : putting them in and taking them out / paper presented by Christopher Parker, Treloar & Treloar. By www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au Published On :: Full Article
