Social Media Policy- Media Literacy Is Key to American Public Life and Civic Engagement - The Augusta Press October 25, 2021
- Twitter suspends Indiana Rep. Jim Banks' official account - Associated Press October 24, 2021
- The week in fake news: Unvaccinated FEMA workers and other popular but false tales on social media - The Seattle Times October 22, 2021
- 'Please Call Me' inventor wins new round in Vodacom case - SowetanLIVE October 22, 2021
- The top global media consumption trends of 2021 - The Drum October 22, 2021
- Andrew Yang on America's “very bizarre direction” — and why the two-party system needs to go - Salon October 22, 2021
- What We’re Watching: Sudanese protesters vs each other, NBA vs China, EU vs Poland - GZERO Media October 21, 2021
- COVID-19's impact on girls and women: live townhall on October 28 - GZERO Media October 20, 2021
- National | Keeping tabs on disinformation - CBA National October 20, 2021
- UK fines Facebook $69.4 million for failing to supply data - Associated Press October 20, 2021
- S. Media Vancouver
- Vancouver man takes awe-inspiring snap off BC coast - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- TikTok star pleads not guilty to double murder in San Diego - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- Facebook profits rise amid revelations from leaked documents - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- PHOTOS: Record-setting ‘bomb cyclone' slams B.C., Pacific Northwest - The Weather Network October 26, 2021
- Judge: No order barring union from discussing vaccine order - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- Vaughn Palmer: Security alert ordered for B.C. government offices - Vancouver Sun October 26, 2021
- Sudan's military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- Google Pixel 6 Pro — a review from an iPhone user - Vancouver Sun October 25, 2021
- Making of Alec Baldwin movie is halted after fatal shooting - vancouverislandfreedaily.com October 25, 2021
- B.C. storm update: More ferries cancelled | Salvage crew’s access to smouldering ship hampered by storm | Thousands without power - Vancouver Sun October 25, 2021
- Kwantlen
- With Flamingo, the Tien Sher Group of Companies' continues its legacy of re-energizing the Whalley District - Vancouver Is Awesome October 25, 2021
- Changes to freedom-of-information legislation will weaken B.C.'s democratic infrastructure, says Privacy Commissioner - The Globe and Mail October 25, 2021
- ‘Receding before our eyes:’ Vancouver Island glaciers likely to be all gone by mid-century - Vancouver Sun October 25, 2021
- Vancouver Island's glaciers gone by mid-century - Bowen Island Undercurrent October 24, 2021
- 'Backward for government transparency': BCIT and BC journalism educators express dissapointment, concern over new potential FOI request procedures - Burnaby Now October 22, 2021
- 'We haven't settled on a fee,' says B.C. premier as backlash against charging for information grows - CTV News Vancouver October 22, 2021
- KPU to use $500000 fund to invest in student business case competition teams - The Runner October 21, 2021
- James Bond villain Safin is the latest in this harmful movie trope - NPR October 20, 2021
- Kwantlen Creative Captures shows promise as first KPU photography club - The Runner October 16, 2021
- KPU design graduate wins Outstanding Young Alumni award - The Runner October 15, 2021
- UBC
- Delic Announces Partnership with GT Research - Yahoo Finance October 26, 2021
- BC students and staff want more COIVD-19 measures at universities, testing of unvaccinated | CTV News - CTV News Vancouver October 26, 2021
- B.C. takes note as New Zealand moves to ban single-family zoning in cities - Vancouver Sun October 26, 2021
- 'Redefining Community': Indigenous rights advocate to speak at UBCO webinar – Vernon Morning Star - Vernon Morning Star October 25, 2021
- UFV soccer teams qualify for playoffs - Agassiz Harrison Observer October 25, 2021
- Local solutions for boosting COVID-19 vaccine uptake - UBC Faculty of Medicine October 25, 2021
- Interview: Author, UBC professor and chair, Alix Ohlin on the 2021 Vancouver Writers Festival - Ubyssey Online October 25, 2021
- UBC experts on the new federal cabinet - UBC News October 25, 2021
- UBC In The News - UBC News October 25, 2021
- Growing up around green space has positive effect on early childhood development, UBC study suggests - CBC.ca October 25, 2021
- Business Education
- New Oriental's Koolearn to Stop Off-Campus Training Business for Compulsory Education - Pandaily October 26, 2021
- How To Start An Online Classroom Business? [4 Easy Steps Home Lessons] - Inventiva October 26, 2021
- Provost urges FG to encourage COE students with bursary - Daily Sun October 26, 2021
- Why undergraduates in the UAE should learn about their family business - The National October 26, 2021
- Northern Lights celebrates leadership at awards gala - wingsmagazine.com October 26, 2021
- Nonprofit Leader Awarded Full MBA Scholarship To Chicago Booth - Poets&Quants October 26, 2021
- CIBT Education : Provides Business Updates on its Education Segment - marketscreener.com October 25, 2021
- Blue Origin says it will build an orbiting mixed-use business park in space - Alabama Public Radio October 25, 2021
- New election maps get preliminary approval by Fort Smith School Board - talkbusiness.net October 25, 2021
- Cincinnati Innovation District expansion to bring more jobs, money to region - WKRC TV Cincinnati October 25, 2021
Tag Archives: language
The root of beauty …
… is boldness, wrote Pasternak. “That is what’s brought us to one another.” Apropos: After Wolfgang Pauli had given a colloquium on some ideas related to particle physics, Pauli said to Neils Bohr: “You will probably think that what I … Continue reading
Abandoning One’s Mother Tongue
I had not thought this possible. A very poignant story via the great Language Log.
Real Words
One of the best pure writers I have ever seen was a psychology student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University named Emily (she gave me permission to use her first name). She could amalgamate and compress numerous, complex source articles into a … Continue reading
More on Clichés …
From professor Jonathan Mayhew: One of Orwell’s sillier pieces of writing advice is “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.” Orwell advises “scrapping of every word or idiom which … Continue reading
Clichés Used in Journalism
The Washington Post compiles a helpful list; it’s up to 200. I am guilty of using the following in speaking (and the first one listed here in writing, too – alas): Any “not-un” formulation (as in “not unsurprising that you’d … Continue reading
No Word
A friend in the media emailed me this morning: “Everyone keeps talking about hostages having been taken in Paris. Doesn’t the word ‘hostage’ imply a demand on the part of the terrorists? They made no demands; they intended all along … Continue reading
Ricotta / Ree-goat
In Fairport, New York, where I grew up, there were lots of Italian American families, and I had many Italian American friends (still do). I married an Italian American from Liverpool, New York, and have a son from this marriage … Continue reading
“Epic translation success”
Read more at the always alert, amusing, and erudite Language Log.
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On Poetry
My friend Jonathan Mayhew has been on a tear of late, publishing a series of manifestos on poetry in his wonderful blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks. Some snippets (but read the whole thing): Manifesto (1) Nobody knows what poetry is for. … Continue reading
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The “trick to ambiguity”
From the great Language Log: Most of the ambiguity contained in normal language use is passed over without any awareness on the audience’s part of the potential for double meanings. If one of the two intended meanings in an ad … Continue reading