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Language
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Stop Using “Illegal Alien” Terminology
From Cesar Baldelomar of Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform:The language we use daily can cause either division or healing. In this case, individuals are using language to cause violence and…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Video about the words we love to hate
Let's file this one under "Friday diversion," The long weekend is upon us, so sit back, put your feet up and take a break from class prep., grading, what-have-you and…
LawSites
Editor’s Blog Survives Editor’s Layoff
One of my blogosphere indulgences is You Don't Say, a blog about language, usage and journalism by John E. McIntyre, veteran copyeditor at The Baltimore Sun. But earlier this week,…
Legal Profession Blog
“Worst Pun of All Time?”
So debates the University of Pennsylvania blog on language (though their commenters' pedantic debate is over whether it is a mondegreen not a pun), at this link, with hat tip…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
say what?
By legalwriting
Over on Geniocity the other day, Professor Peter Friedman offered some food for thought on the opacity of legal language. Anyone who can address the language of both patent law…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
occupational hazard of LRW profs: conjobulation
By legalwriting
Here's a fun posting proposing a new word: conjobulation. Have so much to do that you can't keep track of it all? Pick up the phone to make a call,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Slow Death of English in California?
The L.A. Times reports that nearly 43% of residents of California speak a language other than English at home, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The…
The Right Coast
Snuck sneaked inMike Rappaport
Tom writes that he "sneaked away" in his post on The 300. I paused at that, "sneaked" or "snuck," concluding that sneaked was correct, but still sounded a little funny…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
William Safire: “Woman vs. Female”
William Safire's On Language column in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine ponders whether (and why) the term "female" is being abandoned in favor of "woman":“I do not understand why,”…
PrawfsBlawg
Are there no real Jews at the NYT?
Main Sunday, February 25, 2007Are there no real Jews at the NYT?Yesterday, the New York Times's David Carr published the following two paragraphs about Oscar pools:This year there are quite…