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A shift in the cyber meaning of “pro-life”?

Dictionaries are important. When dictionaries change there can be wide repercussions. For example, when the standard reference point for American English back in the day, Webster, changed their basic approach, their lexicographical theory, as it were, from being being proscriptive … Read More

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SOPA and PIPA and Wikipedia

The SOPA and PIPA plague continues. Did you all see that Wikipedia is “blocked” today? UPDATE: I used that page (above) and called the offices of my representative and both senators. I suggest that you take less than five minutes … Read More

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