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		<title>The Diacritics on Grammar Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 10:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Diacritics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Sandeep&#8217;s posts was adapted for a podcast produced by Grammar Girl. Read it and listen to it here, or download the podcast on iTunes. Tagged: grammar girl, podcast<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=1045&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy names (redux)</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/05/07/crazy-names-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone &#8212; Sandeep and I are both in the throes of finals, our apologies for the lack of posts! We&#8217;ll get back to regular posts as soon as we can, but in the meantime&#8230; I wrote a post a couple months ago about crazy names, looking at some of the most interesting name changes that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=1026&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the language of politics could doom Obamacare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For politicians there are lots of topics that are simply too hot to handle. Social security reform, abortion, gay marriage &#8212; these are all crucial issues, but many politicians hate taking strong positions on them. It&#8217;s not hard to see why: Do so, and there goes the vote of an entire demographic. But if there&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=1010&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If I were Justin Bieber&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I was your boyfriend, never let you go Keep you on my arm girl, you&#8217;d never be alone I can be a gentleman, anything you want If I was your boyfriend, I&#8217;d never let you go, I&#8217;d never let you go Justin Bieber, &#8220;Boyfriend&#8221; Truly stirring. I don&#8217;t generally need one more reason to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=992&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Inimical to our own safety&#8221;: regulating heritage languages</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/03/30/inimical-to-our-own-safety-regulating-heritage-languages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the country waiting for the Supreme Court to release its decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, I thought it would be fun to revisit an older Supreme Court decision &#8212; one where the Court directly considered the benefits and disadvantages of foreign language learning. I was inspired to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=969&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those narrow-minded, prescriptivist . . . texters?</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/03/12/those-narrow-minded-prescriptivist-texters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texting encourages us to be creative and unconstrained with our language, right? Traditional print media, fettered as they are by the bounds of Standard English, promote more rigid acceptability and grammaticality judgments, don&#8217;t they? Aren&#8217;t those prescriptivist editors and stodgy old style columnists just concerned with dictating how we speak and write? Not so says [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=956&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parsing the Constitution</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/03/09/parsing-the-constitution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most delightful moments for an ex-linguistics student in law school are when legal analysis clearly intersects with linguistic analysis. That connection was part of what drove me to come to law school. This semester, for me, that close relationship has appeared most often in Contracts and Constitutional Law, two fields which depend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=939&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toward(s?) a better understanding</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/03/01/towards-a-better-understanding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, sorry about the delay in getting new posts out to you. Let&#8217;s get to it: There are many well-documented differences between British and American English. Even those unacquainted with linguistics can point out some of the more obvious ones: color/colour, apartment/flat, spilled/spilt, and plenty more. Lynne Murphy, an American linguist abroad in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=925&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8: The importance of being &#8216;married&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/02/07/prop-8-the-importance-of-being-married/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 9th Circuit ruled today that California&#8217;s Proposition 8 was unconstitutional, saying that it violated the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. For a summary of the ruling and a link to the opinion itself, check out SCOTUSblog. Most of us probably remember that Prop 8 was the anti-gay-marriage initiative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=906&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who you callin&#8217; Beezow Doo-Doo Zoppittybop-Bop-Bop?</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/01/31/crazy-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop is the name of a man who was arrested recently in Wisconsin. Yes, that is his legal name. Considering that for much of history, a person&#8217;s name was of such weighty import as to be the key to their &#8220;power&#8221; (in one way or another), Mr. Zopittybop-Bop-Bop is a sign of just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=828&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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