Language Log: Automatic measurement of media bias
Mediate Metrics ("Objectively Measuring Media Bias") explains that Based in Wheaton, IL, Mediate Metrics LLC is a privately held start-up founded by technology veteran and entrepreneur Barry Hardek....
View ArticleLanguage Log: Simile of the week
The Simile of the Week award (it's a bit early for Simile of the Year) goes to Matt Taibbi, who in a spectacularly delicious piece of political feature-writing described observing the Republican...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Perlocutionary force exemplified
Today's Zits: Though "How many times do I have to tell you" is pretty conventionalized by now…
View ArticleLanguage Log: Severely X
Mitt Romney has gotten a certain amount of flak for this phrase in his recent speech at CPAC (alternative video here; prepared text here): My- my state was a leading indicator of what liberals will be...
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