Which nouns get the definite article? This question can be tricky.
The Definite Article
Barbie and Gender Bias Language in Tech
Mattel recently faced a barrage of criticism after a blogger excoriated them for the story and language of the book Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer. The book, in Barbie's "I Can Be..." series and published in 2010, has now been discontinued. But it continues to provide an interesting look at how, while some…
Fun Idioms from NBC's Constantine
"Leave it out," "The duck's nuts," and "rocket surgery" are a few of the sorts of phrases you get on a show about a Liverpool-raised Londoner living in Atlanta, Georgia.
Unpack Your Anti-Intersective Adjectives
I mentioned in a previous post that I would elaborate on the linguistic concepts of non-intersective and anti-intersective adjectives, so here we go. Intersective adjective: The adjective intersects with other uses of the same descriptor. A green car and a green frog are intersective in that they are both green, and green means the same…
John Oliver Calls Dingo; Truthiness Will Out
"Dingo!" or "I call dingo!" borrows its syntax from earlier phrases (c.f. "Shotgun!"/"I call shotgun"), but its meaning is more precise: it refers specifically to conflicts of interest.
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