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The few masters of the toughest tongue twisters earned playground glory. But who knew there was more to Peter Piper’s pick or the woodchuck’s chucking?
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When you first get to college, the process of picking a major is a little bit like dating.
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How have UC Berkeley professors spent their favorite summers? Read on to find out what campus faculty have done during their most memorable summers.
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Lacking a pithy term for exchanging explicit instant messages? Fear not; English quickly conjures up “sexting,” and voilà: The new word, equally a noun or verb, neatly synthesizes two existing words and is nigh impossible to misunderstand.
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I’ve always been struck by how odd language is — how meaningless combinations of speech sounds can be strung together in meaningful ways to somehow create an infinite possibility of phrases.
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Of all of the problems I expected I would encounter in the present, the “grammar police” have not turned out to be one of them.
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Subtlety, of course, is the enemy of “rules,” those one-size-fits-all, dictatorial commandments that ensure that all over the country, newspapers are using the same style and process for sharing information. I understand the need for these rules, and most of the time, it saves a lot of confusion.
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Our relationship to language is … complicated. Language still manages to surprise with its inbuilt laws and quirks, obvious or not, that continue to confound and delight us.
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Before my first linguistics class, I felt an immense frustration at the smallest of grammatical errors. As I began taking more and more courses in the subject that would end up becoming my major, I saw my relationship to grammar transform.
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Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced the appointment of campus linguistics professor Sharon Inkelas to serve as the Special Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor on Sexual Violence/Sexual Harassment in an email sent to campus Friday evening.
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