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June 2, 2018 @ 8:13 pm
· Filed under Dictionaries, Historical linguistics, Language and the law, Lexicon and lexicography
An introduction and guide to my series of posts "Corpora and the Second Amendment" is available here. The corpus data that is discussed can be downloaded here. That link will take you to a shared folder in Dropbox. Important: Use the "Download" button at the top right of the screen. New URL for COFEA and […]
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May 29, 2018 @ 6:51 pm
· Filed under Ignorance of linguistics, Language and computers, Language and the law, Lexicon and lexicography, Linguistic history, Semantics, Words words words
An introduction and guide to my series of posts "Corpora and the Second Amendment" is available here. The corpus data that is discussed can be downloaded here. That link will take you to a shared folder in Dropbox. Important: Use the "Download" button at the top right of the screen. New URL for COFEA and […]
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May 28, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
· Filed under Language and the law, Lexicon and lexicography, Linguistic history
An introduction and guide to my series of posts "Corpora and the Second Amendment" is available here. The corpus data that is discussed can be downloaded here. That link will take you to a shared folder in Dropbox. Important: Use the "Download" button at the top right of the screen. New URL for COFEA and […]
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August 10, 2016 @ 3:52 am
· Filed under Language and politics, Language and the law
The controversial words about the Second Amendment that Donald Trump uttered at a rally in North Carolina yesterday are as follows: Hillary wants to abolish — essentially abolish — the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick her judges… [long pause] Nothing you can do, folks. [long pause] Although the Second Amendment […]
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June 1, 2022 @ 4:02 pm
· Filed under Language and the law
In the aftermath of Uvalde and other recent mass shootings, there's been renewed discussion of the 2nd amendment. So I'm listing relevant past LLOG posts, culminating with Neal Goldfarb's series of 16 in 2018-19.
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June 4, 2024 @ 12:00 pm
· Filed under Language and the law
Jonathan Weinberg sent in a link to this article — Molly Redden, "How A Luxury Trip For Trump Judges Doomed The Federal Mask Mandate", Huffington Post 6/3/2024: Buried in the April 2022 ruling that struck down the Biden administration’s mask mandate was a section that was unusual for a court decision. The outcome itself was […]
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July 11, 2018 @ 6:09 pm
· Filed under This blogging life
Those of you who got an email alert, or saw a tweet, about a post titled "Corpora and the Second Amendment: 'keep' (part 1)" may be wondering why you don't see that post. The reason is that I accidentally posted an unfinished draft; I clicked on "Publish" instead of "Save Draft." Maybe I need to […]
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May 8, 2018 @ 5:36 am
· Filed under Language and the law
In the comments on my recent post "The BYU Law corpora," Dennis Baron writes: Sorry, J. Scalia, you got it wrong in Heller. I just ran "bear arms" through BYU's EMne [=Early Modern English] and Founding Era American English corpora, and of about 1500 matches (not counting the duplicates), all but a handful are clearly […]
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February 6, 2018 @ 10:51 am
· Filed under Language and politics
In "Text-as-data journalism? Highlights from a decade of SOTU speech coverage" (Online Journalism Blog 2/5/2018), Barbara Maseda surveys some of the ways that "media has used text-as-data to cover State of the Union addresses over the last decade". When Erica Hendry asked me for thoughts about features of Donald Trump's style in last week's SOTU, the […]
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October 31, 2017 @ 7:17 am
· Filed under Language and politics, Rhetoric
In a number of posts about Donald Trump's rhetorical style, I've noted how seldom he uses filled pauses such as UM and UH in spontaneous speech, compared to other public figures. For example, in "The narrow end of the funnel" (8/18/2016), I noted that filled pauses were 8.2% of Steve Bannon's words (in a sample […]
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December 18, 2012 @ 6:47 pm
· Filed under Language and the law
Jeffrey Toobin, "So you think you know the second amendment?", The New Yorker 12/18/2012: The text of the amendment is divided into two clauses and is, as a whole, ungrammatical: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not […]
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June 29, 2011 @ 7:51 am
· Filed under The language of science
Faye Flam, "‘Belief’ in evolution? It may be the wrong word", Philadelphia Inquirer 6/27/2011: When the contestants in the Miss USA pageant last week were asked whether evolution should be taught in schools, many volunteered that they either "believed" or "didn't believe" in the concept. "I don't believe in evolution," said Miss Alabama. "They should […]
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June 18, 2008 @ 1:23 am
· Filed under Language and the law
In the case of D. C. v Heller shortly to be decided by the US Supreme Court, the central issue is the meaning of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall […]
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