Variation in inflectional morphology
“Variable or non-standard realizations of inflectional morphology in English” sounds like a rather dry and academic topic. But the shocked and amazed reactions I have received over the years in...
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Ambiguity, jokes, and trick questions
Some time ago a friend shared the following with me. What I find interesting about this question is that it is ambiguous, with the ambiguity neither grammatical (structural) nor lexical. The question...
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According to an article by Reiji Yoshida in the Japan Times, word choice played an important role in an agreement to list several Japanese industrial sites as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. Japan has...
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