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‘Fudging’ in Flight: Dubbed Movies on Airplanes
It makes sense for movies shown on airplanes to be appropriate for most if not all ages. That limits the selection, needless to say. On my flight home from France, I chose Three Billboards Outside...
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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Catchphrase!
Elaine’s Bizarro-world friends: Kevin, Gene, and Feldman In a recent interview, the rapper Kanye West said being bipolar is his “superpower.” He is not the only capeless person to recently make such a...
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Messages by the Numbers
Remember favorite numbers? Mine was seven. I liked how it combined the magic numbers three and four; how it was prime; how it looked, especially when my first-grade teacher executed it in Palmer...
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Puerto Rican in Spain: 2 Grad Students Reflect on Language and Spanish Higher...
U. of Barcelona Wireliz Soto-González recently completed her master’s in art history at the University of Barcelona. Jorge Fernández de Jesús received a master’s in biology at the University of...
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How to Get a Hunting or Fishing License in Montana
Bureaucratic language is everywhere. I don’t object to it, for I rely on bureaucrats to help us understand our laws and regulations. The secret is writing these explanations in language that average...
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It’s the Job-Interview Season Again
It’s about that time of the academic year when eager young Ph.D.s and A.B.D.s spend more than they can afford to attend the annual meetings of their disciplines with the goal of landing a job for the...
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The Dreaded Ph.D. Oral Exam
A topic sometimes discussed in the faculty lounge is the dreaded Ph.D. oral exam. As a faculty member who has chaired and otherwise participated in many of these events, I’m tempted to think that I’ve...
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What Gets Covered in ‘Coverage’?
Lloyd’s in the early 19th century (above). The insurance business has been around longer than the word “coverage.” Curricular conversations nationwide lament, cheer, and debate the decline of...
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Farewell to a Blog That Encouraged Thinking Aloud
The Thinker, a pencil-tip sculpture by Jasenko Dordevic Two years ago, the Technical University of Munich’s language center hosted a conference about university-level writing in a second language....
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Kory Stamper, Lexicographer, Is Working On a New Book
In March 2017, Kory Stamper’s book Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, was published to great and justified acclaim. The book, a delightful inside look at the lessons she learned as a...
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