Savan

Savan is horrified by the seepage into everyday speech of “pop language.”

Writing With Culture – The Insidious Pull of Pop Language « Lorelle on WordPress 2005

Grimes thinks Savan is too uptight and that pop language keeps language fresh and changing.

Writing With Culture – The Insidious Pull of Pop Language « Lorelle on WordPress 2005

A long succession of boiling rapids and waterfalls having in days of yore obstructed the passage of the fur-traders, they had landed at the top of them, and cut a pathway through the woods, which happened at this place to be exceedingly swampy: hence the name Savan (or _swampy_) Portage.

Hudson Bay 1859

It could have been deal with better: NPR could have found a cannier way to handle this sort of problem, says Leslie Savan at The Nation.

Danny Groner: What Does Juan Williams' Firing Say About Journalism? Danny Groner 2010

It could have been deal with better: NPR could have found a cannier way to handle this sort of problem, says Leslie Savan at The Nation.

Danny Groner: What Does Juan Williams' Firing Say About Journalism? Danny Groner 2010

We have one collaboration with Beth Savan and Ingrid Stefanovic, whom I see on your list.

Digital Media and Climate Change Research at U of T | Serendipity 2009

It could have been deal with better: NPR could have found a cannier way to handle this sort of problem, says Leslie Savan at The Nation.

Danny Groner: What Does Juan Williams' Firing Say About Journalism? Danny Groner 2010

It could have been deal with better: NPR could have found a cannier way to handle this sort of problem, says Leslie Savan at The Nation.

Danny Groner: What Does Juan Williams' Firing Say About Journalism? Danny Groner 2010

I went down to the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savan - nah.

Sole Music 2010

Pop language — hip phrases and lingo that is derived from advertisements and TV mostly — is even used by politicians and those who should know better, according to Savan.

Writing With Culture – The Insidious Pull of Pop Language « Lorelle on WordPress 2005