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Legal Writing Prof Blog
the death of whom?
If you've been wondering where the word "whom" has gone, read here.hat tip: Joe Bazan(spl)
Louise Rosen Byer Blog
What Words Say … About Us?
Recent interesting reading in the Harvard Business Review supports the sound advice — choose your words carefully — if you can. Say what? In computer-assisted research over the past couple…
The Faculty Lounge
The Bedeviling Term “Concentration Camp”
NPR's ombudsman steps into the lingering controversy over whether it is correct and appropriate to refer to the camps where Japanese Americans were confined as "concentration camps." I think they…
China Law Blog
Learn Chinese for Business? The Pros and Cons
By Dan Harris
The following is a guest post by Jonathan Poston, Editor of the Learn Chinese Business Blog [link no longer exists] . Though learning Chinese well is obviously helpful for doing…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
another view of plain English
CHINUA ASUZU, of the Assizes Lawfirm in Lagos, Nigeria, has written an article called: "I Give You that Orange: Language and Style in Nigerian Legal Writing", urging lawyers in his…
Legal Skills Prof Blog
A Violent Metaphor in the Debt Ceiling Debate
The debt ceiling debate has has been described in very conflict-oriented terms--no surprise there. What has caught my attention is one word: "trigger." Click on Google and enter three search…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Don't Speak Social? You're Just Reading Lips in Spanish
By Ryan McClead
For the last few weeks, I’ve been on iTunesU listening to Human Behavioral Biology lectures by Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University. (Why, what do you listen to while jogging?) It’s…
The Faculty Lounge
Turkey Faces Challenge To “Turkish-only” Language Law
Colleagues studying the English-only movement in the US might take note that the European Court of Human Rights has agreed to hear the case of Orhan Miroglu, a political candidate…
DuetsBlog
Sportscaster Speech Slaughter And The Need For Distinction
Now that my blood pressure has returned to near normal levels after my beloved Blue Devils barely eked out the NCAA basketball title (and I do mean barely), now feels…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
The words (and phrases) we love to hate
In this recent column by Professor Stanley Fish in the NYT, the author catalogs several contemporary expressions that give us fits like "Your call is important to us" (yeah, right) or "Please listen carefully…