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		<title>No pun intended</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear readers—Thanks for your patience! It’s been a busy summer for The Diacritics, but we’re ready for another school-year full of language-related fun. Let’s get to it: I was recently in line at a Comcast customer center, waiting with my dad to return a cable box I no longer needed. This is not a fun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=1095&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One euro, two euro, many euro</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The currency here in South Africa is the Rand, named after the Witwatersrand, which means &#8220;white waters ridge&#8221; in Afrikaans.  (Witwatersrand refers to the area where Johannesburg was first built. A prominent university here shares the name.) It&#8217;s a matter of contention whether the plural of “rand” is “rand” or “rands.”Articles 13, 14, 15, 55, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=1056&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The costs of switching to English</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/06/06/the-costs-of-switching-to-english/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[French was the official language in Rwanda until 2008, when the government decided to transition to English in a bid to increase Rwanda’s viability in the global market. The government at the time stated that English, not French, was key to ensuring economic success and establishing Rwanda as a tourist destination, IT hub, and business [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=1077&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wading into language politics in South Africa (uh, Suid Afrika? iNingizimu Afrika? uMzantsi Afrika?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, a few days ago to begin my work with a human rights litigation group for the next two months. I came to South Africa cold—I knew little about its languages. It&#8217;s also very cold here. But I knew I was in for an awesome experience when I hopped aboard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=1052&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Diacritics on Grammar Girl</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/05/28/the-diacritics-on-grammar-girl/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/04/09/if-i-were-justin-bieber/</link>
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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. According to English grammarians, &#8220;If I was your [...]<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>
		<comments>http://thediacritics.com/2012/03/30/inimical-to-our-own-safety-regulating-heritage-languages/#comments</comments>
		<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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