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Women have white matter, men have duct tape. Or so implies Louann Brizendine's latest book, the Male Brain, dissected in this post and comments at Language Log:

Just a few. • Good Samaritan Watch.  Whenever a Talk 10(h) violation makes it into the news (i.e., slips past the mainstream-media watchdogs while one of them is distracted or dozing), I get a slew of emails congratulating me on the quality of my advice. Here is the latest instance, a particularly nasty one.  Thanks to all readers who alerted me to it. https://t.co/cfFBlt6Z0k So much for helping anyone anymore.— SaltySusan -Florida MAGA - Family, God & Integrity (@Susan77237285) May 23, 2021 • India's diversity.  Concerning my observations on the amazing diversity of India, a Jewish...

Ace Linguist January 24, 2020 The PIN-PEN Merger The PIN-PEN merger, where words like "pen", "Lenin", and "hem" sound like "pin," "linen," and "him," is one of the most ubiquitous mergers in American English - but it only started spreading a century ago. Its expansion has been silent, as entire regions of the United States acquire the merger while avoiding societal scrutiny. Today we'll be taking a look at this common merger and the history behind its appearance, its spread, and how it's regarded. What is the PIN-PEN merger? Most dialects of English pronounce words spelled with 'in' different...

Yuval Pinter writes: When an English speaker doesn't understand a word one says, it's "Greek to me". When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it "sounds like Chinese". I've been told the Korean equivalent is "sounds like Hebrew". Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph? Well, there's a Wikipedia article on the topic "Greek to me" with a table of correspondences, a page at Omniglot "It's all Greek to me" with a similar table, and a forum thread at wordreference.com. Michael Quinion has a Q&A on the origins of the ...