Information and Links for LING 301 at St. Mary's University College.

Calgary, Alberta
Joined January 2014
In honour of "National Grammar Day" (US), here's an article by Mary Norris re: *New Yorker* house style, "Holy Writ": newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
Here's a Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast about "code switching" & the NPR "radio voice" (segment starts at 18:57ish): n.pr/1KnbP9L
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Here's a link to "How You Say ‘Calgary’ Says a Lot" by Justin Giovannetti: fw.to/CH9tJeH
Here's a link to "Linguists are like, ‘Get used to it!’" by Britt Peterson: bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/0…
Here's a link to "The Poem that Passed the Turing Test" by Brian Merchant: motherboard.vice.com/read/th…
Here's a link to a BBC News editorial by Faith Salie on "creaky voice" or "vocal fry": youtu.be/R6r7LhcHHAc
Here's a link to "The One Word Men Never See in the Performance Reviews" by Kathleen Davis fastcompany.com/3034895/stro…
Here's a link to "regender," a website that "translates" the gendered terms of webpages: regender.com/
Here's a link to a .pdf of "Authority and American Usage" by David Foster Wallace: wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204…
Here's a link to Google's Ngram Viewer: books.google.com/ngrams
Here's a link to "The Definition of a Dictionary" by Stefan Fatsis in @slate: slate.com/articles/life/cult…
Here's a link to an article in *Ted* by J Gross about "How Language Can Affect the Way We Think" ideas.ted.com/2013/02/19/5-e… (Thanks, Christine!)
Here's a link to an article in the *Smithsonian* by Charles Siebert about "The Whale Who 'Talked'" po.st/WXYjte (Thanks, Hailey!)