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Attention-Getting Language

My April column for IEEE Spectrum Magazine , titled "Attention-Getting Language," is now online and ready to read.

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 04-26-2010
More Climate Change Lingo

My most recent Technically Speaking column for IEEE Spectrum magazine is titled "More Climate Change Lingo," and it's available online: http://bit.ly/aCH2ts

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 04-15-2010
The Office-Free Lifestyle

The Office-Free Lifestyle , my December 2009 Technically Speaking column for IEEE Spectrum magazine, is now online.

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 12-01-2009
Information at Your Fingertips

My latest Technically Speaking column (called "Information at Your Fingertips") for IEEE Spectrum magazine is now online :

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 03-27-2009
The Effect Effect

My Technically Speaking column for the February 2009 issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine is now online.

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 02-11-2009
Trafficking in Words

My Technically Speaking column for the December 2008 issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine is now online.

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 12-01-2008
E-cycling E-waste

My Technically Speaking column for the October issue of IEEE Magazine is now online.

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 10-21-2008
Social-isms

Man is a social animal. —Baruch Spinoza Back in 1996, Craig Howe, who was then director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at Chicago's Newberry Library, wrote that "The Internet is either anti-social or asocial. It promotes the isolation of the individual." In...

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 04-04-2008
Game On

Video games have longed pushed hardware to new levels, but they've also pushed the linguistic envelope, with games and gamers constantly coining new words and phrases. Way back in its April 30, 1982 edition, an op-ed piece in The Washington Post opined that "When the latest monthly unemployment...

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 03-28-2008
It's a Wiki, Wiki World

This past summer was mostly hot and sunny in my neck of the urban woods, but here, there, and everywhere it was the summer of Wikipedia. In early August, I was reading the latest issue of The New Yorker , and I came across a lengthy article about Wikipedia with the clever title, "Know It All"...

Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 03-21-2008

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