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5 Nov 2010, 1:21 pm by StephanieWestAllen
George Gopen, Professor of English at Duke University. [read post]
27 May 2015, 11:00 am
Daniel Solove (George Washington University Law School) is compiling a list of privacy and security related novels. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 1:58 pm by Lisa McElroy
If even if you weren’t on the LiveBlog, here’s the rundown in Plain English. [read post]
25 Oct 2006, 7:24 pm
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is remembered in part for its description of Newspeak, a bastardization of English designed to oppress its speakers and limit their ability to think independently and critically. [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
According to English law in 1836, children were the legal property of their father, and there was little Caroline could do to regain custody. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 6:35 am by Steve Lubet
And There is an undeniable relationship between bad writing and bad politics, as George Orwell first observed in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language. [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 3:17 pm by By DEALBOOK
George Soros, the hedge fund billionaire, has taken a 7.85 percent stake in the Class A shares of the English soccer team, whose stock price has been trading below its initial public offering price of $14. [read post]
11 May 2011, 10:42 am by George Pecherek
 This information will be available in both English and Polish.George Pecherek & Associates, P.C. [read post]
27 Sep 2007, 11:09 am
"George Bush is a time traveler, conspired with Duke of Normandy at Battle of Hastings 1066 A.D. to pervert the English Dictonary and Law. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 5:38 am by tortsprof
At Otherwise, George Conk, a panelist on the show, has details. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 9:07 am by Harold O'Grady
In 1947, English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair 1903 – 1950) and author of Animal Farm: A Fairy Story and Nineteen Eighty-Four, his most famous works, wrote an essay titled Politics and the English Language. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 6:13 am by Derek Allen
” In George Washington’s case, there likely aren’t any descendants left to complain, so feel free to use him however you’d see fit (George Washington protective phone sock anyone?). [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 3:12 pm by Eugene Volokh
My brother found this highly objectionable on the grounds that his name was pronounced “George” in English (and lets face it Hor-hay is a pretty silly sounding name to most English speakers).It seemed like a pretty reasonable objection to me, and I would certainly use the Spanish pronunciation of “George” if a Spanish speaker with that name wished me to.I’m inclined to think that, when one is learning a language, it’s… [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 12:47 pm
From "Politics and the English Language":By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 9:05 pm by Arts Faculty Librarian
The George Mason University archive of speech accents is a tool for linguists, speech pathologists, phoneticians, engineers who train speech recognition machines, and even interested laypeople. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 2:28 pm by Legal Writing Prof
A recent column by Joseph Kimble (pictured at right) recounts the column’s influential history, from its institution by Detroit lawyer George Hathaway to its twenty-five years... [read post]