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Language
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Is Using “Woman” as an Adjective Demeaning?
By John Kang
From the New Republic....Political-correctness 101 dictates that we should avoid gendered versions of job titles: We’re meant to use “server” instead of “waitress”, “actor” for women as well as men.…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Word Crimes: The Music Video
Our favorite video of the week . . . WORD CRIMES Hat tip to Jan Levine(mew)
PropertyProf Blog
Map of the Day: Who Calls it Soccer
The map above details what people around the world call the sport that we know as “soccer.” In short, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and a couple other nations…
PropertyProf Blog
Map of the Day: Most Commonly Spoken Langugage (Other than English or Spanish)
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Most Popular Languages Across America That ARE NOT English or Spanish
Mental Floss passes along, via Ben Blatt of Slate, a chart showing the most popular languages aside from English or Spanish for each state in the union. Some of the…
PrawfsBlawg
Offensive?
Main Thursday, January 23, 2014Offensive?A random nomenclature question:Is it offensive to call someone "a Jew"simply in referring factually to that person's religious/ethnic background (in other words, not saying it with…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Improving Gender-Biased Language
By Tracy Thomas
Judith Fischer posts The Supreme Court and Gender-Neutral Language: Splitting La Difference. From the abstract:The structure of language itself provides ways to affirm or negate the importance of a gender.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender Biased Language
By Tracy Thomas
Judith Fischer has written The Supreme Court and Gender-Neutral Language. From the abstract:The structure of language itself provides ways to affirm or negate the importance of a gender. Of course,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
On Language and Being “American”
The Washington Post ran a nice piece about how first-generation immigrant children lose their native tongue, and then try to relearn it to communicate with their immigrant parents. While the article…
The Right Coast
America s Slippery Slope Into Britishisms – NYTimes.com
Crikey, Britishisms are everywhere. Call it Anglocreep. Call it annoying. Snippets of British vernacular cheers as a thank you, brilliant as an affirmative, loo as a bathroom that were until…