University Canada West- B.C. student sues his teachers over plagiarism, judge strikes case - Business in Vancouver November 13, 2025
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- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 2025
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- Social Media Policy
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- Following social media spat, Manning says he’s resigning from Gardiner-area school board - Centralmaine.com November 28, 2025
- Social media erupts as Tom Brady’s broadcast moment mirrors Tony Romo - Irish Star November 28, 2025
- New EU law to hold social media sites liable for financial scams - Silicon Republic November 28, 2025
- A social media channel used to attack Yermak foes has some interesting posts. “Channel offline. Our admin is being searched by NABU.” Then a while later statement from Yermak about full cooperation. “You didn’t see this in Poroshenko’s times,” comments t - x.com November 28, 2025
- Australia’s social media experiment will be watched around the world - The Observer November 28, 2025
- Social data puts user passwords at risk in unexpected ways - Help Net Security November 28, 2025
Tag Archives: language
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
Ginormous
Bryan Garner, lawyer and English language usage scholar, on one of my favourite words: A portmanteau is a type of luggage with two separate sections. A portmanteau word is formed by combining the sounds and meanings of two different words. Linguists … Continue reading
Changing Norms
Reuben Fischer-Baum of Jezebel has made a wonderfully entertaining GIF that presents six decades of the most popular names for girls, “state by state.” He writes: Baby naming generally follows a consistent cycle: A name springs up in some region … Continue reading
Dogma versus Rules of Thumb
Language Log is an always stimulating group blog on language and linguistics, with posts that range from earworms and usage advice to research tools and sociolinguistics. The comments sections are as illuminating as the posts themselves. A recent post called … Continue reading
The Art of Scolding, cont’d.
“We have somehow not successfully received your professional-development documentation,” a Dean’s Office colleague wrote me in an email early in my career at Kwantlen. The sentence both charmed and alarmed me, especially the phrase somehow not successfully received, which seemed … Continue reading
On National Grammar Day: A love letter to language
It’s fitting that I should write this post on National Grammar Day. Choosing and arranging the right words with the right endings in the right order with the right punctuation isn’t even close to the most interesting thing I could … Continue reading