Language

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

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Reason June 2003 Charles Paul Freund	Text Talk Language revolution: "texting" reaches the classroom
Inc. May 1, 2003 Matthew Fogel	Way Beyond BASIC The language of business is Greek to some; to Jeff Henning, it's Karklak.
Information Today April 2003 Dick Kaser	Opinion: Do You Yahoo!? Paul McFedries was on the receiving end of a cease-and-desist notice from Google lawyers after having published a definition for the new verb "google" at his Word Spy Web site. The whole incident raises an interesting point about the protection of trademarks in general.
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Google Acts To Protect Trademark Google's first publicized action to protect its trademark from being transformed into a generic word has occurred.
Wired February 2003 Martha Baer	Immortal Code The CEO goes to trial. The programmers hit the street. And yet sometimes a piece of code is so elegant, so evolved, that it outlasts everything else. Here is the story of NaturallySpeaking, the world's first continuous-speech dictation software, and the concept of "abandonware."
Salon.com December 17, 2002 Arianna Huffington	America's apostrophe catastrophe What's with the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation?
Salon.com November 14, 2002 Keith Olbermann	What's "from way downtown" in Farsi? Someday, our entire age will be illuminated by two Persian guys describing a Shaq dunk.
Reason November 2002 Nick Gillespie	Logocentrism You can trademark words but not meaning. "Let's roll!" may well go down as Florida State's great rallying cry, or a mantra mumbled by especially motivated Wal-Mart sales associates. That won't be so bad, assuming that we remember the heroes on Flight 93 for what they did, not what they said.
ifeminists October 8, 2002 Tresa McBee	Synonym Salad On fifth-graders translating classic texts like the Gettysburg Address and Declaration of Independence into modern-speak
Outside October 2002 Marshall Sella	Devil's Dictionary Master the art of outdoor slang with this patented lexicon of shameless verbiage and incomprehensible dudespeak.
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