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On the uselessness of linguistics in particular and academia in general

A couple of months ago I mentioned some internet-wide reactions to danah boyd’s essay regarding race, class, and social networking sites in the US. What was most interesting to me about many of the comments I saw was how people brought in some sort of skepticism of academia, in order to either discredit boyd (because [...]

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LinguaYouTube, Linguablogs, Linguablogwants

Man, I’ve really been laggard on the blogging lately. This semester has officially been teh suck, for a few reasons. It’s been good for a few other reasons, but it’s overwhelmingly been teh suck. I wasn’t used to only having a week off during winter break; I had four classes, only two of which moderately [...]

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