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		<title>Martin Luther King Was Good At Talkin&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/01/16/martin-luther-king-was-good-at-talkin/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 02:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[I have a dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Let freedom ring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLK]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As part of my contribution to celebrating MLK day, in this time of transition in race awareness in the United States, I haves an informal rhetorical analysis of King&#8217;s &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech. Professional Rhetoricians have analyzed this speech at a much more sophisticated level than I could ever do. This is just from &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/01/16/martin-luther-king-was-good-at-talkin/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Martin Luther King Was Good At Talkin&#8217;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do not read this important message!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 03:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[framing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Messaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RCN training]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do not read this until you have time for the equivalent of one or two chapters in a book. But if you can settle down for a while and you care about messaging, and your copy of &#8220;don&#8217;t think of an elephant&#8221; is across the room and you don&#8217;t feel like getting up, dig in. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/11/30/do-not-read-this-important-message/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Do not read this important message!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Great British Baking Show Translator</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/31/the-great-british-baking-show-translator/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Baking Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British English]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why do we like The Great British Baking Show? It lacks a chef who&#8217;s whole shtick is to be an asshole. The judges are fair, consistent, and open, even if the White Supremacists at The Sun are annoyed when a British-born Bangladesi from Bedfordshire wins. The judging process is meant to be entertaining, educational, and &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/31/the-great-british-baking-show-translator/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Great British Baking Show Translator</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ritualized Language Can Be Inaccurate and Annoying</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/21/ritualized-language-can-be-inaccurate-and-annoying/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ritualized language]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rituals are things people do in a more or less consistent matter, often to the extent that the manner of doing is more important, or at least, more persistent, than any possible original reason for doing the thing. Ritualized behaviors are all around us, even in highly modern settings like medicine. As a possibly apocryphal &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/21/ritualized-language-can-be-inaccurate-and-annoying/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ritualized Language Can Be Inaccurate and Annoying</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>If I suggested you read this, it is because you used &#8220;ad hominem&#8221; wrong</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/05/03/if-i-suggested-you-read-this-it-is-because-you-used-ad-hominem-wrong/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2020 13:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ad hominem fallacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fallacies]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;ad hominem&#8221; means directed against a person. If you are a racist, and I say you are a racist, then my statement is ad hominem. Note that the statement may be technically correct. I&#8217;m saying something about you, and you really are a racist, so my statement is correct. On the other hand, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/05/03/if-i-suggested-you-read-this-it-is-because-you-used-ad-hominem-wrong/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">If I suggested you read this, it is because you used &#8220;ad hominem&#8221; wrong</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Schrödinger&#8217;s Lie: A quantum leap in understanding metaphors</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/24/schrodingers-lie-a-quantum-leap-in-understanding-metaphors/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analogies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irven Devore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quantum leap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quantum mechanics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schrödinger's cat]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sex, Lies, and Power When I was a graduate student, and later, teaching, at a Great East Coast University*, one of my adivsors was the famous Irven DeVore. We taught a very large introductory biology class nicknamed &#8220;Sex&#8221; but also known as &#8220;Human Behavioral Biology,&#8221; or, in the school&#8217;s tradition of naming all important courses &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/07/24/schrodingers-lie-a-quantum-leap-in-understanding-metaphors/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Schrödinger&#8217;s Lie: A quantum leap in understanding metaphors</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Signs will be in both native and immigrant&#8217;s languages in northern Minnesota</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/21/signs-will-be-in-both-native-and-immigrants-languages-in-northern-minnesota/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 20:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Apropos recent discussion on Native American issues in Minnesota, we have this from MinnPost: Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a “foreign” language. That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in Minnesota may be the only town off a reservation trying to incorporate the area’s &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/21/signs-will-be-in-both-native-and-immigrants-languages-in-northern-minnesota/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Signs will be in both native and immigrant&#8217;s languages in northern Minnesota</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Counting Chinese Words</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been said that &#8220;word frequency&#8221; is the most important variable in language research, despite the belief by many that it can&#8217;t be used as a variable because no one really knows what a word is. (see: Minifalsehood: We can&#8217;t tell what a word is!?!? and A run in my stocking &#8230;) A recent &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/06/09/counting-chinese-words/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Counting Chinese Words</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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