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		<title>Prop 8: The importance of being &#8216;married&#8217;</title>
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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&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=906&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=828&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I swear (affirm?) that I will tell the truth</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/01/21/i-swear-affirm-that-i-will-tell-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching a Kannada soap opera last night (because I have apparently become an elderly Indian woman as of late) and a scene in a courtroom caught my attention. One of the characters was being questioned, and before she gave her testimony she was asked to declare her intention to speak the truth. ಸತ್ಯವನ್ನು [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=836&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The English literature academy&#8217;s glorification of elegant&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/01/17/the-english-literature-academys-glorification-of-elegant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandeep Prasanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The English literature academy&#8217;s glorification of &#8220;elegant variation&#8221; in which one attempts to vary one&#8217;s nouns and adjectives when referring repeatedly to the same thing is anathema to the law. Kuney and Lloyd. Contracts: Transactions and Litigation. 2011: 40. Tagged: academy, english, law, precision<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=835&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice from E.B. White (especially good for aspiring lawyers&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/01/08/e-b-white-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some day I mean to have a fireside chat with my government, that we may come to know each other a little better, for it is by a better understanding of the other&#8217;s traits that a government and its citizens must fulfill their mutual destinies. In my chat I want particularly to take up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=820&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>thediacritics.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Diacritics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and Gentlemen, we&#8217;ve reached a milestone. Our domain is now officially http://www.thediacritics.com! Subscribers, don&#8217;t worry&#8211;you don&#8217;t need to change anything. Also, our WordPress domain will redirect you to the new site automatically. Oh, and new posts to come soon! -John and Sandeep<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=809&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Kim?</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2012/01/03/whats-in-a-kim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Diacritics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Posted by Sandeep) I&#8217;ve been fascinated by North Korea&#8217;s late Dear Leader Kim Jong-il for a while now &#8212; not just because he liked to look at things or because he died, although many people agree that those were two of his more positive qualities. The reclusive state that he, and his father before him, maintained [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=788&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aping McCarthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Diacritics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is a guest post from my friend and former research colleague Joel Bray, a junior at Duke studying evolutionary anthropology. He is recently back from projects and adventures in Uganda and Madagascar and writes about his experiences and all things primate here. -S.] I just finished Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s masterpiece, Blood Meridian, an epic tale about the depravity and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=778&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking with precision</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2011/12/19/speaking-with-precision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Diacritics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(posted by John) My first semester of law school is drawing to a close, so I thought I would write about something I heard on my very first day. I’ve been mulling it over since then, partially because at first blush it runs so against my beliefs about prescriptivism and the ‘rightness’ of one person’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=776&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of language videos</title>
		<link>http://thediacritics.com/2011/12/13/lots-of-language-videos-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Diacritics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Fry rails against pedantic prescriptivists: &#8220;Sod them to Hades!&#8221; &#8211; Bad Lip Reading, whose hilarious dubs bring to mind the McGurk Effect, reimagines the words of disgraced Republican candidate Herman Cain: &#8220;Mexican people don&#8217;t eat sugar, especially when it&#8217;s a mixture of lice and tiger DNA!&#8221; &#8211; The Open University describes the history of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&amp;blog=25281244&amp;post=755&amp;subd=thediacritics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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