Language

Magazine articles on language and the origin and properness of words and expressions.

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Information Today September 3, 2009 Paula J. Hane	Please Translate That for Me Google recently added nine new languages to Google Translate
Wired August 24, 2009 Jonathon Keats	Jargon Watch: Booing, Green Trade War, Decision Engine New terms to help describe the current state of affairs and culture in the United States.
Wired August 24, 2009 Clive Thompson	Clive Thompson on the New Literacy The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world.
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2009 Andy Atkins-Kruger	Translating Keywords Should Never EVER Happen Keywords are the fruit of a language, hanging on the branches of trees that grew and were nurtured in the local climate and are rooted in the local culture. Translation can't predict that.
Wired July 20, 2009 Jonathon Keats	Jargon Watch: Virus Battery, Kettling, Caloplaca Obamae New words for new situations.
Wired June 22, 2009 Jonathon Keats	Jargon Watch: Queasing, Predator X, Greenfinger New words for contemporary phenomena and newly discovered dinosaurs
Information Today June 2009 K. Matthew Dames	Intellectual Property: Why the Frame of `Piracy' Matters What does piracy really mean? The term's definition and history are important along with the reasons why its continued misrepresentation matters to the country's copyright policy.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Paul McFedries	Suffix It to Say The ubiquitous suffix illustrated in contemporary English words to look out for, like vaporware, freeware, shareware et al.
Wired May 22, 2009 Jonathon Keats	Jargon Watch: Gastric Condom, Equasy, Dark Flow, Virtual Parent Definitions for gastric condom, equasy, dark flow, and virtual parent.
Wired Jonathon Keats	Jargon Watch: Meta-Meta, Kenken, Micromagician, Patternicity New terms for metapuzzles, logic puzzles, magicians, and finding patterns.
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