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04:55 pm
languagelog
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The holiday Economist
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1984 The holiday issue of the Economist has a number of feature articles, including two that are straightforwardly about language: on politeness in language and on "difficult languages", discussed briefly on my blog, here and here.
Commenter mollymooly noted that:
The Economist’s holiday features are the result of giving its journalists free rein to write about something they’re interested in and, one hopes, knowledgeable about. It’s a Christmas present for the staff as much as the readers.
What a nice idea. Ordinarily, writers would have to pitch stories to an editor, or would simply be assigned stories by an editor.
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09:27 am
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[braddumm]
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Photo Challenge Recap Post...
...will go up on Tuesday instead of Monday...
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05:11 pm
lnr
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2009 travel meme
"List the towns or cities where you spent at least a night away from home during 2009. Mark with a star if you had multiple non-consecutive stays."
- Home (in Shelford)
- Oxford (for Jan and Owen's wedding)
- Mirfield (visiting parents, and staying at parents when visiting sister and new nephew)*
- Cardiff (for Rae's hen and visiting Rae and Adam)*
- Exeter (in two different hotels)
- Bath (for Rae and Adam's wedding)
- Lydney (visiting Mike's parents)
and about to head back to Mirfield. I think that's it for this year.</p>
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03:55 pm
finermac
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iTunes doesn’t like wasting music space
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/finermac/~3/gUHbkBbXNWo/ http://finerthingsinmac.com/?p=222405159 
iTunes has offered a “pick music for me” option to fill the iPod shuffle for some time. As of a recent update, it can now fill presumably any i-device’s free space left over after music, video, and podcast selections with random music.
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03:20 pm
languagelog
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Buzzwords of 2009
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1983 Mark Leibovich and Grant Barrett have done another end-of-the-year buzzword catalog for the NYT Week in Review. There's a sampling on the front page: aporkalypse, Chimerica, octomom, car tone, ununbium. And then Grant's main list, from athey to wise Latina woman, on p. 3.
Their piece, "Buzzwords: Coining a Not Great Year", begins
You could Tweet all the highlights of 2009 and still have time for dithering. But to catalog the lingo? It would be like one long torture memo. We need to impose a timetable. Let's get right to our full plate.
and continues in this self-illustrative vein.
A few entries have put in appearances on Language Log (though we don't attempt to chronicle new expressions systematically): crash blossom here, gaymarry or gay-marry here, I'mma let you finish here, meep here and here. And on my blog, heinie (in the spelling hiney). (I might well have missed some.) As usual, a nice crop of portmanteau words: aporkalypse and Chimerica from p. 1, and then jeggings, mancession, sexting, vook.
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02:28 pm
languagelog
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With whom he was speaking with
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1982 Matt Bauer sent in a specimen of preposition doubling from a recent Chicago news story ("Man stabbed in head with screwdriver in Joliet", WGN/Chicago Tribune, 12/20/2009):
A Joliet man was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver by the husband of a woman with whom he was speaking with at a local bar, police said.
For background, see "A note of dignity or austerity" (5/3/2007); "Back to the future, redundant preposition department" (5/4/2007); "A phenomenon in which I'm starting to believe in" (5/19/2007); "Could preposition doubling be headed our way?" (5/15/2007); "Re-doubled prepositions" (5/19/2007).
Complicating matters further, a Chicago Sun-Times article suggests that it was actually the husband rather than the wife who was involved in the bar conversation:
A 44-year-old man was allegedly stabbed in the head with a screwdriver by the husband of the woman he was dropping off home early Sunday morning, police said.
The victim told police he was at a Joliet bar and had a conversation with the husband of the woman. At that time, the victim said he didn't feel like they had any kind of problem.
However, when the victim dropped off the woman at the intersection of Second and Wilson avenues at 2:05 a.m., the victim said the offender attacked him for no apparent reason, said Police Chief Fred Hayes.
This is the sort of case where the anaphoric/paratactic approach (as practiced by Elmore Leonard and the Pirahã) is likely to be helpful in keeping straight who did what to whom when.
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03:26 pm
sion_a
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Hope
þa stod drihtnes engel wiþ hig and godes beorhtnes him ymbelscean: and hi him mycelum ege adredon.
and se engel him to cwæð; Nelle ge eow adrædan. soþlice nu ic eow bodie mycelne gefean. se bið eallum folce.
Wishing you all a peaceful and joyous Christmas.
Current Mood:  busy
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03:13 pm
auntysarah
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Tilt! Tilt!
From today, the northern hemisphere nights start to get shorter.
Thank $DEITY for that.
That is all.
Originally posted at http://auntysarah.dreamwidth.org/218703.html - you can comment here or there.
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04:00 pm
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02:28 pm
pjc50
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Get off my lawn
No, really - our neighbour just had a visitor who drove their car across our lawn and a bit onto their lawn, rather than park on the drive. I have no idea what they were thinking .. by the time I'd got moving and got my winter gear on they'd made their escape.
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02:18 pm
mirabehn
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Happy Solstice!
Whether it's the winter or the summer for you, and whether or not you are celebrating the solstice, I am wishing you all a very good day.
I have lovely Yule plans for today: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mirrorshard is staying and he and I are going to be making exciting food for mostlyacat, yvesilena and ourselves.
Specifically our plan is: roast partridges for the omnivores and Quorn roast for Eve, all with bread sauce, veggie gravy, butternut squash, broccoli and roast potatoes. And then a shop-bought strudel to follow, with brandy cream sauce. NOM. :-)
I suspect there will also be some booze, and a great deal of Singstar and/or board games. And a generally celebratory atmosphere. And possibly something meditation or prayer-related tonight, though I may just do that solo, will see.
Fellow northern hemisphere people: the days are going to start getting lighter after this! Hooray!
Fellow northern hemisphere pagans: yay, the sun-god is born again. Hooray!
Rather foolishly, I had the same difficulty sleeping last night that I always do before a party I'm organising, added to a certain seasonal soppy excitement. Which is going to make this rather harder! Ah well. ;-)
Current Location: Eldamar
Current Mood:  celebratory
Current Music: Daughters Of Gaia - Reawakening | Powered by Last.fm
Tags: eve, nice things, nick, pagan, sam, yule
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09:03 am
photographers
[kylecassidy]
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/13858660/816541) [Link] | 85 1.8 wide open. It gave a pretty high shutter speed (i think it was 1250/sec) but the autofocus would often latch on to a snowflake. I found it best to try and af on the dark line of the dress and then lock focus, compose, and shoot. something great about snow for photography.
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05:59 am
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[barryw322]
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Yuletide Glow
 Yuletide Glow
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01:30 pm
indexed_feed
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Mommy, Santa smells like a hobo!
http://thisisindexed.com/2009/12/mommy-santa-smells-like-a-hobo/ http://thisisindexed.com/?p=12475 
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01:54 pm
ewx
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Usual Christmas poll
Poll #1501744
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11What do you want for Christmas? Who do you want for Christmas?
And for the shy:
Poll #1501745
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 7Who do you really want for Christmas?
Tags: nonsense, polls, xmas
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12:54 pm
kh_focus
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Planning applications: Campkin Road, Arden Road and King's Hedges Road
http://kingshedgesfocus.blogspot.com/2009/12/planning-applications-campkin-road.html After weeks with no applications this week we have three!
- 12 Campkin Road has applied for a "single storey front extension" (application 09/1084/FUL)
- 18 Arden Road has applied for a "two storey front extension and dormer" (application 09/1137/FUL), and finally
- 36 King's Hedges Road has applied for a "single storey front extension" (application 09/1151/FUL)
The application on Arden Road is already down to come to a planning committee.
As always you can find out more information from Development Control at the City Council including details of how to inspect plans in person and online, and how to comment.
As always in case of difficulty let us know.
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