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Find Your 'Everyday Creativity'

Psychology Today | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Tattoo Artists, Art, Language, The Balanced Life, Cognitive Science, Style, Everyday Creativity, Innovation, Tattoos, Happiness, Productivity, Living News

We all marvel at other people's artistic achievements. But most of us fail to nurture our inner innovator. Start living creatively and reap the benefi...

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Early This Morning

Reverend Billy | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Language, Coney Island, Neighborhoods, Rev. Billy, New York, New York News
Reverend Billy

Sounds in all the trees! The wintry wind in the old park. This is the earth's version of a fantastic New York neighborhood. The back and forth up i...

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A Word for the Gifting Season

Amy Hungerford | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday, Language, Holiday Gifts, Thanksgiving, Words, Regifting, Hannukah, Gift Giving, Christmas, Giving, William Safire, Living News
Amy Hungerford

Pretension wrapped in a noun wrapped in a gerund: that's what gifting is. This holiday season, give the gift that keeps giving: something nice you picked yourself, for a particular person.

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Soulless Social Media Words

Brandon Mendelson | Posted 11.07.2009 | Technology

Read More: Social Media, Language, Social Networks, Social Networking, Social Networking Sites, English Language, Technology News
Brandon Mendelson

Lately I can’t seem to read a blog post that doesn’t involve any of the following words and phrases. These words are a menace. One worse t...

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Bi-Partisanship; or, the Fine Art of Spear Throwing

Mark Axelrod | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bi-Partisan, Democrat, Linguistics, Language, Political Parties, Health Care Reform, Republican, Bipartisanship, Partisanship, Politics News
Mark Axelrod

Bi-partisan. Can't listen to a political talk show these days, either from the "left" or the "right" without someone using the word once, twice, even multiple times.

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Akuntsu Tribe: Just 5 Members Remain

The Independent | Guy Adams | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Language, Akuntsu, Akuntsu Tribe, Extinction, Ururu, Rainforest, Tribal Rights, South America, Brazil, Indigenous People, Amazon, Civilization, Funai, World News

They are the last survivors: all that's left of a once-vibrant civilisation which created its own religion and language, and gave special names to eve...

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Media Drops the F-Bomb Into Its Headlines

Danny Groner | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Television, Newspapers, Video, Language, Entertainment, Ernie Anastos, Tv, Online Video, Snl, Saturday Night Live, F-Bomb, Media, Obscenity, Jenny Slate, Media News
Danny Groner

By the looks of it, the "F-Bomb" has been lurking for some time now, but it took the Slate incident on SNL to help propel it further. Call me old-fashioned, but what ever happened to the old, reliable, and charged F-Word?

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Who Is Your Mother's Favorite?

Deborah Tannen | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Deborah Tannen, Language, Relationships, Siblings, Sisters, Verbal Communication, Favorite Child, Parenting, Communication, Living News
Deborah Tannen

Stamberg began our conversation by asking, with a mischievous twinkle that I could see in her eye and my sisters could hear in her voice, "So ladies, which of you was your mother's favorite?" While I hesitated and Naomi responded thoughtfully, "Oh, that's a good first question," Mimi quipped, "Obviously me. No question."

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Afrika Bambaataa, Tommy Boy Records, Rapper's Delight, Spray Paint, Urban Culture, South Bronx, Salt -N- Pepa, Female Rappers, Music, Mc's, 1970's, Spinderella, Angie Stone, Planet Rock, Aerosol Paint, Africa, Graffiti, Soul Music, Martial Arts, African-American, Women, Sugar Hill Gang, Rap, Brazil, Sugar Hill Records, Hip-Hop, Mc Lyte, Jazzy Joyce, Dancing, 1981, Microphone, Breakdancing, Soul Sonic Force, Capoiera, Dj, The Sequence, 1979, Monica Lynch, Sylvia Robinson, Turntables, Costumes, Black Women, Clothing, Harris Publications, Whitney Museum of Art, Business, Vh1, Stylist, Hip Hop Records, The Oscars, Photographers, Spotlight, Image Makers, Editors, DJ Beverly Bond, Publicist, Behind the Scenes, Magazines, Music Careers, Queen Latifah, Bet, Hip-Hop Films, Fox Network, Denise Dee Barnes, Wendy Williams, Female Graffiti Artists, Fetish, Art, Mtv, Choreographers, Subways, Living Single, Pump It Up!, Hot 97, Multi-Tasking, The Source Magazine, The Wendy Williams Show, Photography, Guidence, Murals, Mentoring, 1990's, Cover Girl, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flip Mode Squad, Images, Apparel, Wild Style, Lady Pink, Sarah A. Friedman, Eve, New York City, Music Videos, Dancers, Black Girls Rock Inc!, XXL Magazine, Costume Design, Entrepreneurers, Vibe Magazine, Art Museums, Viacom, June Ambrose, Leadership, Alumni, Jennifer Lopez, Elements, Michelle Spaise, Minneapolis, TV Shows, Curator, J-Lo, Exhibitions, Rosie Perez, Making the Band, Future, Past, B-Girl Be, Living Color, Festivals, B-Girl, Painting, Tv, Fly Girls, Unleash, Theresa Sweetland, Politics, Video, Political Activism, Female Artists, Art Festival, Laurie Ann Gibson, Education, Tv Sitcoms, Spike Lee, Midwest, Deanna Cummings, Minnesota, Expression, Mama, Television, Activism, Mama Said Knock U Out, Brewing, Do the Right Thing, Concerts, Lauri Lyons, Social Activism, Visual Art, Women in Hip-Hop, Mother, Communication, Intermedia Arts, Sculpture, Commissions, faith47, Sound, Cinema, Music Downloads, Arts Education, Installations, Mixed Media, Art Commistions, Roxanne Shante, Martha Cooper, Marketplace, Fashion, Museums, Art World, Block Parties, Albums, Textiles, October, Youth, Film, Streets, Records, September, Girls, Youth Programs, Cd's, Recording Technology, History, Technology, College, Balls, Music History, Belle, Music School, Universities, Money, Comeback, Scholarship, Undergraduate, School, Diploma, Language, Hip-Hop Studies, Fellowship, Mcnally Smith School of Music, Recording, Music Business, Author, Fab Five Freddie, Flag International, Video Music Box, Yo! Mtv Raps, Flag an American Story, The Bridge, Ralph Mcdaniels, Vinyl Records, Prince, Juxtaposition Arts, Stefskills, Sarah White, Jennifer Rasinski, Corinne Santiago, C-Rocka, Keegan Xavi, Jessica Kitzman, Janelle Olson, Toofly, Tiffany Smith, Niz, Lichiban, Katrina Knutson, Jamel Shabbaz, Tamiko Mitchel, Erotica 67, Motel 7, Ladykfever, Monica Kelly, Amanda Lopez, Abeni Garrett, Desdamona, Catiesha Pierson, B-Fresh, Wendy Williams Show, Alice Mizrachi, Niz Graphics, Kanye West, Chanel Kennebrew, Shannon Joyce, Manifesto Festival, VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors, MTV VMA, Michaela Angela Davis, Essence Magazine, Dream Hampton, Amsterdam, London, South Africa, Charlie Ahearn, Henry Chalfant, Japan, Jamaica, Walker Art Center, Toronto, France, Cuba, In the Frame, Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design, Zimbabwe, Barcelona, Argentina, San Francisco, Represent Inc., International Center of Photography, Berlin, Germany, Belgium, Spraycan Art, James Prigoff, Puerto Rico, Powerhouse, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mexico, Sao Paulo, Norway, Paris, Star Tribune, Kulture Klub, Tokyo, Mexico City, Bronx, Zulu Nation, Hip-Hop Degree, Kimora Lee Simmon, Baby Phat, U.K., Russell Simmons, Phat Farm, Getty Images, Icp, Somalia, Somalis, Bling a Planet Rock, Raquel Cepeda, Entertainment News
Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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It's Not Just You: California Wildfires Turn Cranky

Beth Lapides | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Southern California Fires, Language, California Wildfires, New Thought, Wildfires, New Thinking, Mood, Beth Lapides, Living News
Beth Lapides

Yesterday, just as we were peaking the cranky meter, Mike Dietrich, the U.S. Forest Service incident commander, said the California Station Fire had turned from "angry" to "cranky."

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Come to the Kitchina!

Juliet Linley | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Language, Linguistics, Italy, Italian, Parenting, Children, Multilingual, World News
Juliet Linley

Around the age of two, our daughter started amusing us with a variety of linguistic amalgamations. She also started treating us as walking dictionaries, to fulfill her seemingly insatiable desire to learn how to say every single item she came across in both English and Italian.

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New Republic Editor Martin Peretz Blasts Someone For Something, Sort Of

Barrett Brown | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: The New Republic, Lockerbie Bomber Libya, Barack Obama, Martin Peretz, Sentence, Language, Grammar, Obama Megrahi, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Media News
Barrett Brown

Not that I'm bothered by Peretz's or anyone else's racism, which is directed only towards mere people. But why his perpetual assault on grammar? Grammar isn't an Arab, Marty. You're thinking of algebra.

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Better Messaging is the Key to Winning Health Care

Sahil Kapur | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Language, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Republicans, Framing, Democrats, Messaging, Barack Obama, Health Care Language, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

Unhinged free-market worship, combined with an inexplicable paranoia for anything government, is what's driving the opposition. So Obama and Democrats need to re-frame this bill -- particularly the public option -- as one that embraces capitalism's best principles.

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Cutting to the Chase

Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Semantics, English, Linguistics, Portmanteaus, Language, Acronyms, Truncations, Brangelina, Through-the-Looking-Glass, Neologism, Twitter, Humpty-Dumpty, Latin, Lewis Carroll, Words, Spanglish, Chinglish, English Language, Misspeaking, Living News
Robin Lakoff

It seems obvious that people create shortened forms to save time. And yet, most often, we don't save that much time and may run the risk of endangering intelligibility.

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Dictionary Removes Beaver, Replaces With Blog and Blackberry

Michelle Howard | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Language, Green Living, Youth, Children, Nature, Robert Bateman, Ecophobia, Oxford Junior Dictionary, Dictionary, Dictionary Add Words, Blog, David Sobel, MP3 Players, Alien Test, Green News
Michelle Howard

Another loss for team nature with the decision by the publisher of the Oxford Junior Dictionary to replace dozens of nature-related words with more relevant words like "blog" and "MP3 player."

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Le Mot Juiced

Brooks Peters | Posted 08.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Hyperforeignism, Poseur, Film Noir, Mispronunciation, Language, Antiques Roadshow, Coup De Grace, Object D'art, Tower of Babel, Style News
Brooks Peters

Some people think they know the nuances of sound and language better than others and in order to enlighten us, they deliberately over-pronounce French words.

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To "Friend" or "Defriend"? That is the Question

David Finkle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Language, Psychology, Neologisms, Relationships, Ending Friendship, English Language, Facebook "Friending" And "Defriending, Living News
David Finkle

If you ask me, one of the worst things assaulting the English language in the last few years is the transitive verb "friended."

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Warning: This Blog Contains Explicit Language and Lots of It

David Finkle | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Grasses of a Thousand Colours, Wallace Shawn, Language, Explicit Art, Paul McCarthy, New Plays, Slide Projections 1971-2006, Theater, Calendar Girls, Barack Obama in Cairo, England, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Slides hurled images on the walls of the artist and various agreeable participants carrying on in the nude or the nearly nude, full-frontally slathering their bodies with thick, gooey substances.

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Like, Three Bridesmaids

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Here, Like, Television, New York Times, Now, Language, Virtual Reality, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

I don't know about you, but I've had enough of "like." So where does this linguistic fixation with "like" come from?

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TED Announces the Open Translation Project -- Bringing Subtitles in 40+ Languages to TED.com

TEDTalks | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Tamil, Urdu, Language, French, Crowdsourcing, TED.Com, Translations, Tedtalks, Subtitles, Spanish, Hindi, Media News
TEDTalks

The TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world, by offering subtitles, time-coded transcripts, and the ability for volunteers to translate any talk into any language.

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"Jailhouse Talk"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living

Read More: White House, Songs, Humor, Writing, Daughters, George W. Bush, Fiction, Diplomas, Editing, Songwriting, Weapons, School, Guns, Barack Obama, Guards, English, Language, Puppy, Prison, Letter Writing, Bank, Knives, Nonfiction, Dogs, Family, Living News
Jerry Zezima

I knew it was only a matter of time before my journalistic crimes landed me in jail. I just didn't think I would end up on Rikers Island.

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New World Atlas Shows Endangered Languages

AP | DHEEPTHI NAMASIVAYAM | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Language, World, Globe, World Languages, Dying Languages, Language Extinction, Linguistics, Norway, Atlas, World Atlas, Atlas of Dying Languages, Atlas of Extinct Languages, World News

PARIS — Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last survivin...

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Still Crazy After All These Years: Censorship in the 21st Century

Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 03.12.2009 | Home

Read More: George Carlin, Martin Luther King, Mark Twain Awards, Kennedy Honors, Pbs, Television @Y:Entertainment, Language, Swearing, Home News
Kelly Carlin-McCall

Last Wednesday PBS aired the Mark Twain Prize in which my father, George Carlin, was posthumously honored for his life long work in Comedy.

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A Thug By Any Other Name

Judy Muller | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

Read More: O.J. Simpson, Dutch Treat, Rush Limbaugh, Zimbabwe, Mafioso, Racist, Dictionary, Culture, Language, Thug, Africans, Tupac, Michael Vick, Politically Incorrect, Africa, Racism, Pejorative, Political Correctness, Joe Johnson, Robert Mugabe, "Thug" Racist, African Americans, Al Capone, Media News
Judy Muller

If you are one of those people who are often the last to hear about the latest addition to the list of politically-incorrect words, this is for you. I clearly count myself among your number.

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English To Hit 1 Million Words In 2009

ABC News | Ruth Walker | Posted 02.03.2009 | Home

Read More: English Words, English, Language, Vocabulary, Home News

Scarcely has the new year begun before the calendar pages start filling up with lunch dates promised in Christmas cards and notes-to-self about next t...

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