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Language Log 2016-11-05

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Clarification by misnegation: The view from pragmatics

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=39262

Language Log 07/18/2018
Joining the ranks of great American masters of the English language

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/06/25/joining-the-ranks-of-great-american-masters-of-the-english-language/

Language Log 06/25/2014

politics
Important new policies on language and script in the PRC

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=52860&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=important-new-policies-on-language-and-script-in-the-prc

Language Log 11/30/2021

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The Middle East, untangled and unknotted

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/07/21/the-middle-east-untangled-and-unknotted/

Language Log 07/21/2014

politics
Finding the right words: The NDIS and apology for forced adoptions

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2013/03/25/finding-the-right-words-the-ndis-and-apology-for-forced-adoptions/

Language Log 03/24/2013

politics
Bahasa and the concept of "National Language"

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4515

Language Log 03/14/2013
Language and politics in Hong Kong: National Security and the promotion of topolect

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=60423&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=language-and-politics-in-hong-kong-national-security-and-the-promotion-of-topolect

Language Log 08/28/2023

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Language and politics: The use of English "OR" in Chinese official propaganda

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=60134&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=language-and-politics-the-use-of-english-or-in-chinese-official-propaganda

Language Log 08/13/2023

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French, the language of love

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/06/french-the-language-of-love/

Language Log 03/06/2025

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“I am determined to be tenacious in relation to the use of my language”: Bess Price and breaking the English hegemony in NT Parliament

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2016/02/18/i-am-determined-to-be-tenacious-in-relation-to-the-use-of-my-language-bess-price-and-breaking-the-english-hegemony-in-nt-parliament/

Language Log 02/18/2016

indigenous languages
“I am determined to be tenacious in relation to the use of my language”: Bess Price and breaking the English hegemony in NT Parliament

https://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2016/02/18/i-am-determined-to-be-tenacious-in-relation-to-the-use-of-my-language-bess-price-and-breaking-the-english-hegemony-in-nt-parliament/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-am-determined-to-be-tenacious-in-relation-to-the-use-of-my-language-bess-price-and-breaking-the-english-hegemony-in-nt-parliament

Language Log 02/18/2016

indigenous
An immodest proposal: "Boycott the Chinese Language"

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=40730

Language Log 11/18/2018

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The language police are coming for you

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/10/the-language-police-are-coming-for-you/

Language Log 10/10/2024

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The lyrics are supposed to go “Forward he cried from the rear And the front rank died”, don’t you know

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/02/the-lyrics-are-supposed-to-go-forward-he-cried-from-the-rear-and-the-front-rank-died-dont-you-know/

Language Log 03/02/2022

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Don’t use MLK to sell capitalism — he’s going to rise from the dead and bite you

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/05/dont-use-mlk-to-sell-capitalism-hes-going-to-rise-from-the-dead-and-bite-you/

Language Log 02/05/2018
Oh no! Equality! Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/30/oh-no-equality-fire-and-brimstone-coming-down-from-the-skies-rivers-and-seas-boiling-forty-years-of-darkness-earthquakes-volcanoes-the-dead-rising-from-the-grave-human-sacrifice-dogs-a/

Language Log 05/30/2013

politics kooks equality
The ethnopolitics of National Language in China

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=39061

Language Log 07/02/2018
"National Language" in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=45371

Language Log 12/14/2019

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DON'T SPEAK THE ENEMY'S LANGUAGE!

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24050

Language Log 02/17/2016

etymology
The Unoriginality of Orwell’s Critique of Language

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2016/11/13/the-unoriginality-of-orwells-critique-of-language/

Language Log 11/13/2016

academe
Ask Language Log: splittism and separatism

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34208

Language Log 08/23/2017
Let's learn some Mongolian language and history

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=42647

Language Log 05/01/2019

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Let's learn some Mongolian language and history

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=42647

Language Log 05/01/2019

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Racists and Racialists — and What’s the Difference?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2016/06/09/racists-and-racialists-and-whats-the-difference/

Language Log 06/09/2016

politics
Vulnerable Words and the CDC

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/12/20/vulnerable-words-and-the-cdc/

Language Log 12/20/2017