http://blog.babbel.com/palindrome-goes-back-and-forth/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:07:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.babbel.com/palindrome-goes-back-and-forth/comment-page-1/#comment-42 No judgements: Global Language Monitor tracks political buzzwords, filters through Obamarama and surges out of the quagmire | The Babbel Blog Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:27:51 +0000 http://blog.babbel.com/?p=168#comment-42 [...] posting last week about the CNN story proclaiming that Sarah Palin spoke at a higher grade level than Joe Biden, I was curious about the organization that made this assessment, and what they thought [...] [...] posting last week about the CNN story proclaiming that Sarah Palin spoke at a higher grade level than Joe Biden, I was curious about the organization that made this assessment, and what they thought [...]

]]> http://blog.babbel.com/palindrome-goes-back-and-forth/comment-page-1/#comment-18 zmjezhd Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:52:44 +0000 http://blog.babbel.com/?p=168#comment-18 It's a normative grammarian site called the <i>Modern Language Monitor</i> (<a href="http://www.languagemonitor.com/" rel="nofollow">link</a>). It’s a normative grammarian site called the Modern Language Monitor (link).

]]> http://blog.babbel.com/palindrome-goes-back-and-forth/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Carol Towarnicky Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:04:47 +0000 http://blog.babbel.com/?p=168#comment-7 Over the past few days on the campaign trail, the meaning of Sarah Palin's words have been clear: Barack Obama is a foreign, scary, "other" . . . and, by the way, he's black. What's amazing, though, is that -- for once in a very long time -- the news media not only is noticing, but it's actually calling the candidate(s) on it. In particular, an Associated Press analysis that called Palin's remarks "racially-tinged" has been quoted widely, much of the rest of the press has picked it up, and -- for the first time in a long time -- Americans aren't being distracted from the imploding economy. You've got to wonder, though, if the economy were only terrible and not approaching Great Depression levels, if Palin's droning wouldn't be more effective. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KD6Q00&show_article=1 Over the past few days on the campaign trail, the meaning of Sarah Palin’s words have been clear: Barack Obama is a foreign, scary, “other” . . . and, by the way, he’s black. What’s amazing, though, is that — for once in a very long time — the news media not only is noticing, but it’s actually calling the candidate(s) on it. In particular, an Associated Press analysis that called Palin’s remarks “racially-tinged” has been quoted widely, much of the rest of the press has picked it up, and — for the first time in a long time — Americans aren’t being distracted from the imploding economy. You’ve got to wonder, though, if the economy were only terrible and not approaching Great Depression levels, if Palin’s droning wouldn’t be more effective.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KD6Q00&show_article=1

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