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Joshua on Jun 7th, 2008Unintentional Self-Parody

An actual quote from a blog about language:
The fact that “one of the only” is a common phrase, found everywhere, does not make it acceptable English.
So what, one wonders, would make anything “acceptable English” for these people? Is there any mechanism for making something “acceptable English” OTHER than the fact that it “is a [...]

Joshua on Jun 3rd, 2008Linguistic Beauty Contest

Well this was inevitable, I suppose. Estonia is throwing a “language beauty contest,” evidently spurred by the urban myth that it once came in second to Italian in an Italian language beauty contest.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it gets first prize this time.
Honestly, what is the point of a language [...]