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Post #2536681
Saying someone has "a cold" or "the flu" have such deep roots in common use. This is as much a question of linguistics as of medicine or biology. As such, it carries with it all the fraught aspects of linguistic prescriptivism. Here, I'm thinking particularly about exercises of, and resistance to, authority. These terms are like "consumption" or "the grippe" or "the flux". They are descriptive &amp; symptomatic, first, foremost, and pro...
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Post #2245000
Failing to ekranoplan is ekranoplanning to fail
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Post #1242814
@shauna Thank you for this. When I saw the news, I thought back to previous comments you've made about how important Hampshire has been to you. I'm sorry it has come to this. I echo a lot of your concerns about what this means. I've read about the struggles for Mills &amp; for Antioch, and that Wells &amp; Cazenovia both recently closed, and watched numerous mostly still small liberal arts colleges rush to rebrand themselves as "universities" all in dismay at...