leftover seasonal message

[I just remembered that in a rather sober mood just under a year ago, I wrote a post which I didn't ever get round to publishing. Rather than updating anything, I'm releasing it now virtually untouched. I'm not going to wish anyone a merry Christmas :) but I do of course hope that if anyone's [...]

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highland guilt

An article which might be of interest in some quarters – replace “Dutch” with “Highland” and swap in your own favourite teuchterish quirks, and this piece of editorialising speaks very pointedly to … (- well, if you know that’s fine, otherwise no need to name names :) )
Quoted in full from the Confessional Outhouse.
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Dutch Guilt: [...]

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(smirk)

If the words “RAE results” mean anything to you, do take a minute to visit Language Log to see Geoff Pullum raving about how Edinburgh’s Linguistics and English Language department fared.
It might also be worth noting that the staff of 20 at Queen Margaret University’s Speech Science Research Centre (which I’m also linked with) achieved [...]

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forget i said anything

Right, I said I wouldn’t be back till after the weekend, but this is what I’m going to be thinking about in the meantime.
Which of these positions would you be more inclined to agree with?
* most believers are regenerated in infancy (or before they’re born),
or
* most believers are not regenerated until they’re much older (childhood, [...]

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going quiet

This is my first time trying out the new dashboard – and an apology for the scarcity of posts here. I’m going to be away from the computer on and off for the next few days. Definitely don’t expect to hear from me tomorrow, and don’t be surprised if I fail to post anything before [...]

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monday night

A debate was organised the other night by edmedethics – ‘Abortion in the 21st century – the medicine, the ethics and the law.’ Mrs Ann Furedi (Chief Executive of BPAS, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service) presented the case that abortion provision is not only pragmatically defensible but ethically justifiable; Prof John Wyatt (professor of neonatal [...]

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special offer

I know you’ll all be really, really excited to hear that – for a limited period only – the journal Phonology is making a select handful of outstanding articles available for free download until the end of this month!
Choose from Clements’ ‘Geometry of phonological features,’ Keating’s ‘Underspecification in phonetics,’ and Browman and Goldstein’s classic ‘Towards [...]

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