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I'm kicking around a concept for a theoretical piece I hope to work on in the near future, dealing with the way "femininity" and the "female" category are conceived of linguistically. Help me find some empirical data! [more inside]
posted by parkbench
on Mar 24, 2009 -
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Do fish fish fish fish fish fish fish? [more inside]
posted by ThomThomThomThom
on Mar 5, 2008 -
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What are some other examples of using 'an' in front of a non-vowel like some do with 'an historic...'? [more inside]
posted by afx114
on Feb 22, 2008 -
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when should I say 'african american' and when 'black' ? [more inside]
posted by krautland
on Nov 16, 2007 -
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I need . . . adjectives! Is there a *scannable* online dictionary or some way in which I can search through giant lists just for the adjectives? [more inside]
posted by Dee Xtrovert
on Oct 18, 2007 -
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Is there a term for mangling two words to create a new word or term? [more inside]
posted by suki
on Jul 17, 2007 -
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Hawaiian has only eight consonants. Pirahã purportedly has even fewer phonemes and no numerals. What other languages have properties which would be considered unusual by Indo-European language speakers?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Nov 16, 2006 -
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Which is correct, and why?
(a) "None of those were..."
(b) "None of those was..." [more inside]
posted by cortex
on Jul 14, 2005 -
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