Monthly Archives: June 2013

In Defense of Semantic Quibbling

Posted on June 28, 2013 by nkrishna

This is in the Bad Linguistics category, but not an official entry in the series, as I’d prefer to reserve that for scientifically inept interpretations of linguistic evidence, and not just people misunderstanding why linguistics matters, because that would generate … Continue reading →

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One nation, under God, in English only

Posted on June 16, 2013 by nkrishna

You have got to be kidding me. Fury is brewing at Rocky Mountain High School, in Colorado, after a multicultural student group were encouraged to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic – replacing ‘one nation under … Continue reading →

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I Give Up, or How the NSA violated(?) the 4th amendment for a bunch of mostly useless data

Posted on June 10, 2013 by nkrishna

So the latest scandal is that the NSA has been allegedly gathering large amounts of data on American phone calls and internet traffic. I’m pissed off about this, for the usual reasons and more. Is it a violation of the … Continue reading →

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