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O, foolish bee! ") found in English textbooks for foreign learners; the drifting semantics of" refute ", which is increasingly used to mean" reject "or" deny "rather than" logically disprove "; gloof, spooce, gloof twain, spooce, gairk, the use of ShortTalk, unambiguous command phrases for voice-controlled dictation software; the linguistically dubious evidence for xenoglossy; and of course the perennial question of Inuit snow words.
Archive 2004-02-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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O, foolish bee! ") found in English textbooks for foreign learners; the drifting semantics of" refute ", which is increasingly used to mean" reject "or" deny "rather than" logically disprove "; gloof, spooce, gloof twain, spooce, gairk, the use of ShortTalk, unambiguous command phrases for voice-controlled dictation software; the linguistically dubious evidence for xenoglossy; and of course the perennial question of Inuit snow words.
Language Log Ray Girvan 2004
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