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2008.07.15: Texas Observer: Follow That Bliss!
2008.06.25: English becomes Chinese
2008.06.15: Rides Again
2008.05.29: Um... in the Wild
2008.05.28: Ultimate Language Secrets is Fraudulent
2008.05.22: Start & Stop Radio
2008.05.19: Bound
2008.05.01: How I Found Out About My Writing Fellowship
2008.04.30: Bow Emoticon
2008.04.29: Before "Happy Birthday'
2008.04.25: Slip of the Day
2008.04.25: You and the Two Letter Words
2008.04.18: Long Live the Subjunctive
2008.04.16: Harry Um Potter
2008.04.16: Um the Book IS All That
2008.04.15: Um on Fresh Air
2008.04.14: Schwa
2008.04.14: New Stuff
2008.04.14: Globe & Mail's Web Strategy
2008.04.09: Fabio Morábito
2008.04.07: Typo Obsessed Jack Kerouac
2008.04.04: Remembering Joe, Texas Observer, April 4, 2008
2008.04.04: Bloopers
2008.04.02: Texas Observer Archive
2008.04.02: Typewriter Nostalgia
2008.04.02: Prisoner's Dilemma
2008.04.01: William Safire's new book
2008.03.29: You spell it "Creole," I spell it "creole"
2008.03.28: Conversation Killer
2008.03.27: The English of the Future
2008.03.26: More Languages!
2008.03.25: The Myth of Extemporaneity
2008.03.17: Chatting for a living
2008.03.14: New NVTC Material
2008.03.14: Lingua Americana
2008.03.10: Where You Been
2008.03.05: I Give In
2008.02.14: Weekend Chinese Schools Win
2008.02.13: New Book Motto
2008.02.10: Um the Textbook
2008.02.08: Our Fathers
2008.02.07: Tattoo Blunder
2008.02.03: R U a Beatnik?
2008.02.03: Wow
2008.02.02: TSA has a Blog
2008.01.23: Preacher's Slip
2008.01.12: NVTC, Redux
2008.01.01: How To Write A Proposal
2007.12.31: Obama vs. Osama
2007.12.25: Snug
2007.12.23: Rabelais of Place
2007.12.10: Community Supported Fishing
2007.12.08: What Resonates?
2007.12.08: What Resonates?
2007.12.07: Global Linguist Solutions Wins
2007.12.04: Draper Digs at Molly
2007.12.03: Globish Prayers
2007.12.03: Recluse's Death in Maine
2007.11.30: Language Journalism
2007.11.30: On the Bus
2007.11.28: Happy Belated Anniversary, To Me
2007.11.14: Favorite New Word
2007.11.01: When I Get Back to Texas...
2007.10.28: Um... on Govteen
2007.10.23: The Linguistic Roots of Mission Translation Work
2007.10.19: Competitive Heating
2007.10.18: A Rejected Submission to NPR's "This I Believe"
2007.10.17: I'm Witty, Um... is Fascinating
2007.10.10: Portland, Maine
2007.10.08: Science Magazine
2007.09.28: Errors in Arabic
2007.09.19: Comments Off
2007.09.18: Reviews
2007.09.17: In Which I Disclose
2007.09.15: Saying Um on the Radio
2007.09.09: President & Pope
2007.09.09: Comments are on...
2007.09.07: Serious Books
2007.09.05: In Which I Claim Yankeehood*
2007.09.05: Who I am (not)
2007.08.30: Average # of Words Per Day
2007.08.30: Book News
2007.08.27: Second Printing
2007.08.25: Art of Error
2007.08.22: Sex and Philology
2007.08.21: Toastmasters Champion
2007.08.21: Um... Released!
2007.08.20: Iowa Stuttering Case Settles
2007.08.19: Social Connections & the New York Times
2007.08.17: I Was Dead, and I Was Resurrected
2007.08.16: No Excuse Not To Practice Spanish
2007.08.14: It's Here!
2007.08.10: Texas Observer Podcast
2007.08.09: John Berryman on Ike
2007.08.07: That Giant Withering Sound...
2007.08.05: Slips Gone Wild!
2007.07.28: Gold or Fool's Gold?
2007.07.26: Welsh vs. English
2007.07.25: Numero Deux for Jacques Pepin
2007.07.25: Um... is Wired
2007.07.23: The Tattoo on the Back of My Hand
2007.07.23: Don't Bother Bringing Religion Journalists to Jesus
2007.07.21: Speed Reading Harry Potter
2007.07.20: Ahab Talks to the Head
2007.07.13: Don't Stop Believing, Texas Observer, July 13, 2007
2007.07.13: The Prince Phillip Gaffe Test
2007.07.08: Marcel Wingate
2007.07.08: Language X is Essentially
2007.07.08: China Post
2007.07.06: It's Alive!
2007.07.02: Polyglot Human Rights
2007.06.29: Keep This in Mind
2007.06.29: Meta Haiku
2007.06.28: First Time Author Learns, Let Others Have Last Word
2007.06.24: My Expertise with 2 Letter Words
2007.06.22: Old Words. Lots of 'Em
2007.06.21: Wild
2007.06.17: Not That Kind of Slip!
2007.06.16: The Last Place on Earth, New Scientist, June 16, 2007
2007.06.14: Me in the Haverhill Gazette
2007.06.13: Texas Book Festival Compañeros
2007.06.13: Catch the Chinese Hot Flush
2007.06.13: Baster--
2007.06.11: How To End A Hit TV Series
2007.06.06: Hacking Corporate Idioms
2007.06.04: Coffee Rumor Blog
2007.05.27: Publishers Weekly Review
2007.05.18: Wood and Arrow
2007.05.17: A Star From Kirkus!
2007.05.15: Arts & Letters
2007.05.08: Languages as Design Objects, Design Observer, May 8, 2007
2007.05.03: Plays Well With Others, and in Canada
2007.05.02: Ums Popping Out All Over
2007.05.02: Blogs on Books
2007.04.30: Umthebook.com
2007.04.29: Misty's Blend
2007.04.26: The Wealth of LibriVox, Reason, May 2007
2007.04.24: Published Bloopers
2007.04.23: Style Wars
2007.04.20: Tattoo Translations
2007.04.19: Corporate Slang
2007.04.19: Language and the Blacksburg Shooter
2007.04.18: Prime Time Speaking
2007.04.17: Babdists
2007.04.13: CORRECTION to LibriVox Story in Reason
2007.04.12: It's Alive! It's Alive!
2007.04.11: A Boon To Second Life Language Schools, Technology Review, April 10, 2007
2007.04.09: Language Work, Language Unwork
2007.04.08: Happy Easter
2007.04.08: Ellroy on Prose Style
2007.04.07: Typewriter Nostalgia
2007.04.05: Obama's Man Loves the Ums
2007.04.04: Tenure as Violence...
2007.03.30: What People Hate
2007.03.30: Ashes
2007.03.28: Norma Erard, 1914-2007
2007.03.18: ¿Presidential Debate en Español?
2007.03.18: How I Feel These Days
2007.03.18: When I Found Out We Were Bombing Iraq
2007.03.12: Our Dog's Web Presence
2007.03.12: Interpretive Bushisms
2007.03.09: Another Corporate Idiom
2007.03.08: Unwinding
2007.03.07: Idling
2007.03.06: Action Item!
2007.03.02: What's a "Critical" Language?
2007.03.02: Gary Bevington
2007.02.28: NYT Gets to First, the Freep Strikes Out
2007.02.28: While Waiting For Galleys...
2007.02.26: Learning Yucatec Maya, Texas Observer, January 26, 2007
2007.02.24: ChinesePod Localized
2007.02.23: Linguistical Errors
2007.02.21: My Ass She Is Nothing For Look
2007.02.20: Typical Conversation, Part 3,455
2007.02.19: Big Day For a Writer
2007.02.17: Banks, Churches, Nashville, and the "Language Barrier"
2007.02.16: Sign Language Via Cellphone
2007.02.16: Speaking Together
2007.02.15: Error, Blunder
2007.02.12: When I Wrote Fiction
2007.02.12: Thou Shalt Not
2007.02.08: A Typical Morning Conversation
2007.02.06: Book News
2007.02.06: DOJ Budget for languages
2007.02.05: Rachael King, Journalist
2007.02.01: What Happened in Palo Alto?
2007.01.29: Other Corporate Idioms
2007.01.29: Kelly Sherman on the Art of Sentence Diagrams
2007.01.27: Everette Jordan Testimony
2007.01.25: Two Great Stories I Can't Write About
2007.01.24: My Tax Dollars, Working For Me
2007.01.23: Hope
2007.01.22: Wearing the Big Hat
2007.01.22: Mike Fright on Games
2007.01.18: The Case for a Language Beat, Chapter 1,455
2007.01.18: Intel's Ozymandias
2007.01.17: Slow Information
2007.01.16: Uh's the Story
2007.01.16: Language Work Americans Won't Do?
2007.01.14: Ford Blooper
2007.01.13: Diagramming Sentences is Kinky
2007.01.09: Guy Delisle's Shenzen
2007.01.05: The Evolution of Speech Balloons
2007.01.05: A Language Beat
2007.01.04: MLA Takes Up New Direction For Language Study
2007.01.03: Robot Songs
2007.01.03: Home Again
2006.12.26: Preorder Um...!
2006.12.26: Christmas as a Flavor
2006.12.24: San Cristobal
2006.12.08: Chicken
2006.12.01: Horror vs. Humor
2006.12.01: Comments
2006.11.30: Poking The Gift
2006.11.30: The Thin Skin of Belonging
2006.11.30: Where are the Damn Comments?
2006.11.29: Speaking in Tongues, part 2
2006.11.29: Comments
2006.11.20: More on Kermit
2006.11.20: Faults and Faultables
2006.11.20: Kermit Schafer excerpt
2006.11.20: Umlessness as good manners
2006.11.20: Edison's Disk
2006.11.20: Old Man Eloquent
2006.11.20: Presidents as Orators
2006.11.15: Xenophobia Has No Accent--Or Does It?
2006.11.14: Hindi as a World Language?
2006.11.08: Election Language Stories
2006.11.06: Gathman on the War
2006.11.03: Ford said "ass"
2006.10.31: The G Word
2006.10.27: My Blog: Where Things Stick First
2006.10.27: A Thousand Verbs Blooming
2006.10.27: There's a Poem in Here, Somewhere
2006.10.25: Texas Book Festival, 2000
2006.10.19: The Mayor's Copula
2006.10.18: The Meta Whoopee Cushions of my Youth
2006.10.18: Ken Lay
2006.10.13: After the Wedding Parties
2006.10.05: Romance?
2006.09.09: Another Bit
2006.08.27: Home...Again
2006.08.25: Maps...equal area cartograms, to be exact
2006.08.24: Cutting Room Floor
2006.08.11: A Blogger Walks Into a Bar
2006.08.11: Happy Birthday, Librivox
2006.08.08: So Far From God
2006.08.04: book news
2006.07.30: July 30

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