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In A Hermitage of Petrified Words
In A Hermitage of Petrified Wordsby Michael DoyleLike a forest well petrifiedBy minerals filling in for lifeA poet thinks in his hermitageDreaming about things to study onThere’s an abandonment of conjunctionWhen like Chomsky, language ceases to functionWe drift like lyrics … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Attack, Bliss, Bygone Eras, Certainty, Chomsky, Discriminate, Dreaming, Emblems, Emptiness, Existence, Fate, Function, Gambit, Hermitage, History, Immutable Stillness, Krazy Glue, Language, Linguistic, Lyrics, Meaning, Minerals, Modern Times, Perfection, Perpretual, Petrified, Petrified Forests, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politically Aggressive, Resistance, Sterile, Study, Survivor, Truth of Time, Understanding, Verbs, Webster, Words
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Webster’s Calling
At one time, Noah Webster called for a unifying national language of American English. On learning that the English were buying his dictionary, he decided instead it was a better thing to recognize that English is English with more in … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Authority, Civility, Clarity, Destruction, Dictionary, Dilect, Dissertation, Effort, Elite, English, Expressive, Independence, Linguist, National Language, Original Construction, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Rules, Standard, Unity, Webster, Words
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Subversive Words
It’s funny to think of a dictionary as subversive isn’t it? Yet, there was a maelstrom of resistance to changes in how to approach English in 1961. Subversive Words by Michael Romani In 1961, wordsmiths grew defensive Declaring Webster’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Coinage, Critics, Dictionary, English, Equalizer, Flux, Inclusion, Kerfuffle, Leveling Effect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Consequences, Preference, Reference, Shakespeare, Slang, Subversive, Webster, Word Misers, Words, Wordsmith
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