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• Semantics - Linda Aleta Tame

  
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  Am I a Christian writer or a Christian who writes?  I wrote a Christian novel.  Now that Ive said that, I need to clarify that a novel cannot be Christian.  I know Im being too literal, but I guess its a pet peeve.  Only people can be Christian, so its a novel with Christian-related content.  And yes, Im also a ...
  6 days ago

• Misnegation of the week

  
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  From the 5/16/2013 decision of the Third Circuit, invalidating an NLRB decision based on the argument that the "recess appointment" of one of the boards members was invalid: The "main purpose" of the Recess Appointments Clause, therefore, is not—as the Eleventh Circuit held and the Board argues—only "to enable ...
  1 week ago

• FBI surrounds house of Saudi student after sightings of him with pressure cooker pot - only to discover he was cooking RICE

  
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  Uruknet: A Saudi student living in Michigan was questioned in his home by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker and called the police. Talal al Rouki had been cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah and was carrying it to a friends house. According to reports in a Saudi ...
  1 week ago

• The trouble with ‘fulsome’

  
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  The word fulsome is used quite regularly by public figures in Ireland, often politicians promising or demanding apologies. Whenever this happens, it is criticised as an “incorrect” usage: see for example this letter to the Irish Times , which supports its point by reference to the AP Stylebook . This is not ...
  3 weeks ago

• The possibility of misinterpretations

  
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  Consider the following sentence: “I think the spirits have gotten to him.” If you’re a child, or a member of a tribe with an ancient mindset, you might think, “Supernatural forces have attacked him.” If you’re a cosmopolitan fellow living in a big city, you might think, “Ah — this guy has had too ...
  3 weeks ago

• CIKM13 Workshop - Sixth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR13)

  
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  Call for Papers Sixth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR13) CIKM 2013, October 28, San Francisco http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/ Submissions due: June 21 There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Does Google Understand You? [Infographic]

  
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  Social Barrel - The Latest on Social MediaGoogle is currently the world’s foremost search engine so they must be doing something right – something that people find helpful. This, however, unquantifiable it may seem to the layman, makes people return to Google time and again if ever they need to search for ...
  4 weeks ago

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