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    Ach du meine Güte! Germany loses longest word

    JUNE 3, 2013 6:34AM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: linguistics, the awful german language, mark twain, language, germany, german

    • 0 Ratings
    • 85 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Free Association-Dr. Jackie's Mental Health Moment

    JUNE 2, 2013 4:04PM

    By jackie2


    Topics: psycholemotional development, analysis, free association, self-growth, happiness, friendship, psychoanalysis process, conversation, language, mental health

    • 2 Ratings
    • 339 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Horny Gods, Horny Prophets

    APRIL 27, 2013 3:07PM

    By RickyB


    Topics: language, history, prophet, metatron, enoch, chanoch, nabu, moses nevo, navi, נביא, נבו

    • 0 Ratings
    • 171 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Open Letter to Senator Mitch McConnell

    APRIL 9, 2013 2:40PM

    By Brian Westbye


    Topics: newt gingrich, ronald reagan, lee atwater, language, mental health, pride, stigma, headlines, politics, depression, ashley judd, mitch mcconnell, brian westbye

    • 1 Ratings
    • 100 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Navy Talk

    MARCH 6, 2013 8:26AM

    By Dorien Grey


    Topics: open call, navy, idioms, language, memoir

    • 2 Ratings
    • 173 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    On the Wonder of Words

    FEBRUARY 27, 2013 8:00AM

    By Dorien Grey


    Topics: open call, words, language, fascination

    • 1 Ratings
    • 111 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Ya Know?

    FEBRUARY 25, 2013 8:00AM

    By Dorien Grey


    Topics: open call, language, gibberish, gap-fillers

    • 17 Ratings
    • 611 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Preposition Prol IF erati ON and a Brief History of English

    FEBRUARY 12, 2013 3:26PM

    By Gerald Andersen


    Topics: humor, comedy, satire, language, smithsonian, english, dangling participle, split infinitive

    • 0 Ratings
    • 81 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Awesomely Untranslatable Words

    JANUARY 27, 2013 7:58PM

    By Barbara Jessing


    Topics: bossa nova, marriage, language, culture

    • 4 Ratings
    • 161 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    My Japanese Flu Shot – If That’s What It Was

    JANUARY 22, 2013 8:52AM

    By Tracy Slater


    Topics: confusion, illness, multicultural relationships, language, travel

    • 13 Ratings
    • 1107 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    I Have a Preposition for You

    JANUARY 6, 2013 4:20PM

    By Susan Mihalic


    Topics: grammar, usage, language, prepositions, latin grammar, english grammar, james michener, ian mcewan, writing, writers, editing, editors

    • 0 Ratings
    • 80 Views
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    Always Words

    JANUARY 4, 2013 7:55AM

    By Dorien Grey


    Topics: fascination, language, words, open call

    • 1 Ratings
    • 171 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Wanna learn a language? Put all the software away.

    JANUARY 1, 2013 2:33PM

    By Quinlan Mitchell


    Topics: rosetta stone, language, foreign language, navajo, russian, spanish, chinese, wikipedia

    • 0 Ratings
    • 89 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Whose Child Is This?

    DECEMBER 29, 2012 3:19PM

    By Tea & Sympathy


    Topics: language, political correctness, person first, hofstra, disability

    • 0 Ratings
    • 142 Views
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    Is There a Name/Word for That?

    DECEMBER 6, 2012 5:05PM

    By Gina Garcia Hayes


    Topics: language

    • 0 Ratings
    • 17 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Gripeology

    NOVEMBER 12, 2012 9:12AM

    By Lynn Biederstadt


    Topics: open call, the novel, fiction, creativity, books, arts, language, writers, writing

    • 0 Ratings
    • 16 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Gripeology

    NOVEMBER 12, 2012 9:11AM

    By Lynn Biederstadt


    Topics: open call, the novel, fiction, creativity, books, arts, language, writers, writing

    • 1 Ratings
    • 410 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    How Ann Coulter 'retards' society's progress

    OCTOBER 25, 2012 11:52AM

    By Kyle Schmidlin


    Topics: ann coulter, handicapped, special olympics, words, language, media, social inequity

    • 0 Ratings
    • 36 Views
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    Landlord No More: The Death of a Linguistic Artifact

    OCTOBER 4, 2012 4:21PM

    By M. Glen


    Topics: economy, business, politics, comedy, realty, linguistics, language, landlord, housing, obsolete, history, lexicon

    • 9 Ratings
    • 665 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Called on the carpet for reading Junot Diaz in English class

    OCTOBER 3, 2012 5:57AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: bronx, nyc, nycdoe, teachers, education, literature, pulitzer prize, junot diaz, sherman alexie, censorship, how to date a brown girl, fiesta, indian education, the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian, race, stereotypes, language

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