James McElvenny writes: The world of blogging – as I’m sure Fully (sic)’s readers have already noticed – consists largely of rants and counter-rants. A favourite counter-rant for a modern, scientific and progressive-minded blog like this one is to have a go at linguistic prescriptivists, those who work themselves up into a rage because other [...]
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A bit off the money for budget ‘keywords’
Claire Bowern writes:… Some busy people at Macquarie have used a “specialised linguistic computer program” to analyse the last five budget speeches. They have discovered the “Top 20″ words in each speech. Michelle Grattan has run with it, prompting one Fully (sic)er to comment that “there may be no ‘I’ in budget, but there’s certainly a big one in gullible…”
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