David Crystal weblog
am 02.01.2007 von http://transblawg.eu
David Crystal has a weblog: DCBlog, I discovered from Luxus Linguae.
It was at Broadcasting House in London, round about 1980. I was asked to talk about language to a managerial seminar series, and I started by asking them why there had been no blockbuster… etc. The answers went roughly along these lines. People remembered language work from their school days. It was dull, boring, dry as dust. Parsing. Split infinitives. Tenses. Being told off for mispronouncing something. Iambic pentameters. … I looked around the room. From their age, these were almost all people who had been through the prescriptive mill. They were probably the …
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LInguists and linguisticians
Transblawg / Reviewers letter to TLS, September 14, 2007: Sir, - In my review of David Crystals How Language Works (July 20), the word linguist was replaced by linguistician throughout, without my permission. Linguistician is a term which I would never use…
Tempora Mutantur ...
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Global English article in FT
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