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Introduction Compact
pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, semantics, syntax..... the study of language

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subject-matter getting somewhat technical, will use this forum to help prepare for upcoming exams
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208'Occupy' protests give birth to new catchphrase hosted.ap.org NE~digs-10/27/2011
207Gene found that seems key in evolution of speech apnews.myway.com WASHINGTON (A~digs-11/12/2009
206I might also study those stats if I were a contestant on Wheel of Fortune :-)~digs-5/14/2009
205Here is some statistical information that is helpful when trying to solve cryptoStan-5/14/2009
204The Fear of Common Knowledge overcomingbias.com~digs-7/12/2008
203Pass the prosecco: dictionary's new entries debut biz.yahoo.com Is it accep~digs-7/7/2008
202Visual dictionary people.csail.mit.edu a visualization of all the nouns in the E~digs-1/22/2008
201Papua New Guinea, the Linguistic Superpower strangemaps.wordpress.com~digs-1/3/2008
200"Wordplay" I watched it again this morning. Yeah, it's that good~digs-10/21/2007
199program reco.. PBS Documentary : "Wordplay" The editor of The New Yo~digs-10/18/2007
198add urban dictionary's word of the day to your RSS reader.. urbandictionary.~digs-10/17/2007
197A World of Eloquence in an Upturned Palm nytimes.com <i>By JOHN TIERNEY ;~digs-8/28/2007
196Infants stun scientists with ‘amazing' insights msnbc.msn.com~digs-5/28/2007
195Culturally significant words and phrases from The Simpsons en.wikipedia.org~digs-3/30/2007
194A look at the slanguage of the 1930's, complete with a first-cited dictionar~digs-3/2/2007
193malapropism : the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a wor~digs-12/19/2006
192mother tongue annoyances : moot point vs mute point mtannoyances.com~digs-12/19/2006
191Message 22997511~digs-11/10/2006
190The semantic web education.guardian.co.uk~digs-11/4/2006
189"Every hoe ha dem stick a bush." Jamaican, meaning : "to each hi~digs-11/3/2006
188Sheng is a Swahili-based patois, originating in Nairobi, Kenya, and influenced b~digs-11/3/2006
187Patois, although without a formal definition in linguistics, can be used to desc~digs-11/3/2006
186---creoles and pidgins--- A creole language, or just creole, is a well-defined ~digs-11/3/2006
185movie reco.... Nell (1994) imdb.com Two doctors (Liam Neeson, Natasha Richard~digs-11/3/2006
184Anadiplosis is the first figure of speech used in the Bible. Anadiplosis directsStan-10/28/2006
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