Category: Language
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Ohio Abortion Bill – Explained
I recently got a propaganda flier in the mail that boldly asks “have you seen the language?” and invites us to look at their markup of the full text of Issue 1. And I took the bait! So, let’s do some informal linguistic analysis and check out both the language of the proposed amendment and…
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The World’s on Fire. Fall Out Boy Fails to Say Anything About it.
In the original 1989 hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Billy Joel takes on the role of a passive observer. Fall Out Boy’s remake makes it modern but hollow.
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She’s Too Cool for Him
This meme makes use of double meaning and pop-culture references. Let’s get under the hood and see why this bad boy is funny.
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Mistakes Were Made
Pronouns are my least favorite part of speech. Let’s take a look at how passing the buck and passive voice are expressed through pronouns.
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