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Russian transliteration and the NHL
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has set out a new standard for transliterating player names from the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet to English. You can read a post about it here, but it’s...
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fail and win
In light of the increased use of “winning” thanks to Charlie Sheen’s ranting, I was thinking about the use of “fail” and “win” as adjectives and not verbs. As far as I can tell, the adjective “fail”...
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Georgetown University Round Table 2011!
Over the next few days I will be attending the Georgetown University Round Table, both as a presenter and a viewer. It promises to be an exciting conference, and I look forward to making a couple of...
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750words.com
One of the pieces of advice given to aspiring writers is “write every day”. I think most serious writers do this — they take it as their job, and sit down and write each and every day whether they feel...
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Lessons from Political Science
This semester, I’m taking a course in Interdisciplinary Methodologies in which a motley group of social scientists attempts to learn about the approaches, assumptions, and research styles of a wide...
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linguisticanthropology.org guest post!
If you can’t get enough of my nattering about World of Warcraft, head on over to the LingAnth blog and check out my guest post about my dissertation research. Here’s a link! My advisor sent out their...
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fun with transcription
I use ExpressScribe to transcribe my interviews, because it makes the whole thing much easier. The problem with ExpressScribe is that if you press the wrong button (and I’m not even sure what button...
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lessons
As an undergraduate (it feels like a previous life sometimes), I was a music major. I spent the first two years of my undergrad experience immersed in the life of a musician – lessons every week,...
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more autotranscribe fun
At least this makes transcription more entertaining – here’s another good one from the automatic transcriber function in ExpressScribe. “The gill was called refugees and peach effort Is progress here...
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WoW pet names and breaking the fourth wall
In the World of Warcraft guild I study, it’s not uncommon for the hunter character to name their animal companions after their friends in the game. This usually was done to either make fun of someone...
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