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	<description>Dr. Language Person Saves the Day (and plagiarizes his name)</description>
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		<title>Turin versus Torino</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are there two names for the Italian city of Torino (the second being Turin)? If English and Italian share the same alphabet, why do they not share the same spelling and pronunciation of names of cities? Surely Italians don&#8217;t have alternate spellings and pronunciations of their last names, right? What gives?
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		<title>Less, More, Fewer?  Argh!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I should know this, I really do.  But somehow all I can remember about 8th-grade English class is the pretty girl who sat in front of me and not any of the finer grammatical points that the dear Mrs. RottenOldHag was trying to teach me. I suppose the whole experience was character-building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pluralizing &#8220;-is&#8221;es</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the correct plural form of a Greek &#8220;-is&#8221;?  Polis -> Poli?  Poles?  Polises?  Police? Polixen?  Poultry?  &#8230; Cities?
There was some recent contention on the plural of &#8220;metropolis&#8221;.
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		<title>Language efficiency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is, I&#8217;m sure, a frequent experience for anyone who is reasonably fluent in at least two languages, that one is better for expressing a particular idea. Sometimes it just takes longer to explain a concept in a particular language.
Which led me to thinking about language efficiency in general. Do you know if there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When bad words go good</title>
		<link>http://drlang.blogwaffe.com/2005/02/21/38/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a question that&#8217;s been bugging me for a long time.  An American citizen, I&#8217;ve lived in Israel for five years and their attitude towards &#8220;swear words&#8221; is rather fascinating.  Hebrew is a &#8220;new&#8221; language, revived in part from the ancient &#8220;dead&#8221; tongue, and so they have collected words from other languages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second-person forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually justify my use of &#8220;y&#8217;all&#8221; (my only linguistic souvenir from living 18 years in the South) by saying English doesn&#8217;t have any other useful second-person plural form. I&#8217;ve been led to believe that English *did* have separate second-person forms for singular and plural/formal (thou and you), but we sort of lost &#8220;thou&#8221; along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inverting the Dictionary</title>
		<link>http://drlang.blogwaffe.com/2005/01/19/35/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What recourse do people have (other than asking an expert such as Dr. Language Person) when trying to look up a word from it&#8217;s definition?  Phone books have their Reverse Lookup tables; is there an analogue for Dictionaries?  Cleary a thesaurus is a good start, but thesauri become less and less useful as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalisation of German nouns</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my recent trip to Germany, as part of my &#8220;learn a few words&#8221; undertaking, I noticed that the rule for German is that all nouns are capitalised, as opposed just proper nouns and first word of a sentence. Is this capitalisation scheme used in other languages as well?
And can you say anything about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decline of Declensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What exactly do you have to do to qualify for &#8220;declension&#8221; status these days? Do plurals count? possessives?
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