Semantics

The Semantics Of "Submission"

Robin Lakoff | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Semantics, Religion, Respect, Language, Submission, Bachmann, Tea Party, Voting, Politics News
Robin Lakoff

Voters need to know who will be making important decisions if Michele Bachmann comes into the White House. If President Bachmann makes a bad decision, will she say, "The buck stops here," or "My husband made me do it"?

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Göbekli Tepe Complex of Interpretation

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Semantics, Religion, Fact, Hypothesis-Confirmation Bias, Epistemology, Not-Knowing, Knowing, Fiction, Göbekli Tepe, K. Schmidt, Archeology, Contextualizing, Interpretation, World News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Context It's been said that history is written by victors. What hasn't been said - because it is rather self-evident - is that history is written in ...

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Terrorism: Not 'Just Semantics'

Robin Lakoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Semantics, Language, Crime, Terrorism, War, Politics News
Robin Lakoff

Ever since 9/11, Americans have engaged an ongoing debate on how to make sense of terrorism, and along those lines, what measures to take when terrorists are caught.

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Cutting to the Chase

Robin Lakoff | Posted 11.17.2011

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, Healthy 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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