Geoffrey K. Pullum:
Posts on the Chronicle of Higher Education's Lingua Franca blog

This is a hand-maintained list of my posts on Lingua Franca, a language and writing blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education, newest at the top. These appear at irregular intervals, roughly one per week. Sometimes I list them here before they are actually published. The Chronicle keeps an automatically maintained archive of my posts, but this page is designed for easy lookup of posts by date, title, or temporal sequence. Each title is linked (once published) to its permalink at the Chronicle’s site. Comments are open there on every post (though you should email me if you want a reaction or an answer, because I cannot guarantee to read all the comments that are posted on the site—or indeed, to be frank with you, any of them).

89 You're Wrong and I'm Changing the Subject   17 June 2013
88 A Trinity of Languages   13 June 2013
87 Getting In and Out (and Looked At)   4 June 2013
86 Machine Translation Without the Translation   31 May 2013
85 Speech Recognition vs. Language Processing   23 May 2013
84 Keyword Search, Plus a Little Magic   13 May 2013
83 Why Are We Still Waiting for Natural Language Processing?   9 May 2013
82 Being a Conjunction (slash Coordinator)   30 April 2013
81 We Do Not Seek to Rule   26 April 2013
80 King Jong-un   17 April 2013
79 Orwell and the Not Unblack Dog   8 April 2013
78 Elimination of the Fittest   4 April 2013
77 Fair Comment and Privileged Occasions   26 March 2013
76 Being an Apostrophe   22 March 2013
75 Quite   13 March 2013
74 Spurious Correlations Everywhere: The Tragedy of Big Data   4 March 2013
73 Predicting Prudence from Tense Marking?   28 February 2013
72 Being an Adverb   20 February 2013
71 Revision, Respect, and Etymological Cleansing   11 February 2013
70 Being a Preposition   5 February 2013
69 Humor Detection Module Not Innate   29 January 2013
68 The Hacks and the Hackers   21 January 2013
67 Being an Adjective   14 January 2013
66 Stopping to Consider Language Acquisition   10 January 2013
65 Grammar to the Rescue   20 December 2012
64 Shaken, Not Stirred   11 December 2012
63 A Rule Which Will Live in Infamy   7 December 2012
62 One Rule to Ring Them All   30 November 2012
61 Don't Blame Your Moods on Your Language   19 November 2012
60 That's Right   13 November 2012
59 Grammatical Relationship Counseling Needed   8 November 2012
58 Frankenwords   31 October 2012
57 Illegal Immigrants and Marine Biologists   22 October 2012
56 What Words to Say, What Sort of Person to Be   19 October 2012
55 Passive Writing at the Daily Planet   9 October 2012
54 More Grammar Hate Mail   5 30 2012
53 Not Lovecraft's Providence   26 September 2012
52 Lovecraft's Providence   17 September 2012
51 Organic Syntax   13 September 2012
50 The Planet of Chongqing   7 September 2012
49 Rules That Eat Your Brain   29 August 2012
48 Even That Would Be a Grammar   20 August 2012
47 You Are Software; Don't Greet Me   16 August 2012
46 The Riddle of Frisney and Frarney   7 August 2012
45 Spelling Random Lexical Flotsam   3 August 2012
44 Fairies   25 July 2012
43 Speak Up!   16 July 2012
42 Away From One's Desk   12 July 2012
41 'Wall Street Journal' Pushes Grammar Panic   3 July 2012
40 Remembering Alan Turing   28 June 2012
39 Being a Noun   20 June 2012
38 When Your Computer Is as Easy to Use as Your Phone   11 June 2012
37 More on the 'However' Myth   7 June 2012
36 The Case of the Extra Word   29 May 2012
35 Forget me, Scott Reed   24 May 2012
34 Lying About Language   15 May 2012
33 Beliefs About Grammar and Extraterrestrials   11 May 2012
32 The Quality-Length Correlation   2 May 2012
31 ‘Hopefully’: Five Decades of Foolishness   23 April 2012
30 Not Rage So Much, but a Modicum of Fear   18 April 2012
29 A Great Space for Nitpicking   10 April 2012
28 Being a Verb   6 April 2012
27 The Rise and Fall of a Venomous Dispute   28 March 2012
26 Passives, Pandas, and Dangling Modifiers   19 March 2012
25 The Bad Science Reporting Effect   15 March 2012
24 Foreign Language Education, Part 3: Accentuating the Positive   6 March 2012
23 More on How to Argue for Foreign-Language Instruction   2 March 2012
22 How to Argue for Foreign Language Instruction   22 February 2012
21 Literary Judgment Marred by Dumb Grammar Myth   14 February 2012
20 Ferment and Befuddlement   6 February 2012
19 Legislating Language and Truth   2 February 2012
18 Normal and Formal   18 January 2012
17 Shock: Writer Avoids Mentioning Passive!   27 January 2012
16 The Year of ‘Occupy’   8 January 2012
15 Dogma vs. Evidence: Singular They   5 January 2012
14 Pronoun Agreement Out the Window?   16 December 2011
13 Academic Hate Mail   6 December 2011
12 Beware the Misles   1 December 2011
11 A Thanksgiving for Susie   21 November 2011
10 More Linguistic Slush From the Arctic   15 November 2011
9 Permalinks, Ensparbulation, Etc.   1 November 2011
8 Love Among the Participles   26 October 2011
7 Attack the Muffled Mendacities of the Administrative Creatures   19 October 2011
6 Glovens and Webinars   14 October 2011
5 Mistakes Are Made (But Using the Passive Isn't One of Them)   1 October 2011
4 Chasing Me!   21 September 2011
3 Invaders from America . . . Not!   14 September 2011
2 In the Time of Declarative Sentences   8 September 2011
1 I Wish I'd Said That   26 August 2011