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tony thorne | language and innovation

language and innovation.

  • By Tony Thorne
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly five posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

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Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2021 1
2022 9
2023 7
2024 3

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

SLANGS IN CONTENTION
Chronocentric confusion as youth cohorts clash It’s my responsibility, despite my very advanced age and despite the linguistic distractions from war crimes abroad and political meltdown at home, to try to keep track of the …
On , by TT, 367 words
OF THE EASTER EGG: ANECDOTES AND ETYMOLOGIES
Once a ‘heathen’ token of fertility and (re)birth (or so we are told – speculations by the Venerable Bede in the 8th century or Jacob Grimm in the 19th, now taken as gospel, may indeed …
On , by TT, 991 words
Long January
First language updates from 2024 I have written several times on this site about new language and novel forms of expression generated by Generation Z and about how evolving attitudes, fashions and social behaviour among …
On , by TT, 511 words