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I Got it, You Got it, We ALL Got it

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I’ve got a bee in my bonnet and of late it has got more and more active. Someone’s got to help!
Now I pride myself on not being a pedant on subjects linguistic. Your pronunciation of pronunciation is no concern of mine. I’m as prone as the next person to completely overlook the odd split infinitive. If U [...]

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Obama’s Cairo Speech Dissected: The Power of Language

So Barack Obama has made another inspirational speech. This is hardly remarkable: we’ve known for some time that Obama makes George W. look like a performing seal, and an inarticulate one at that. Yet even in this context Obama’s speech in Cairo was remarkable. In less than 6000 words he was able to strip bare [...]

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