For decades, forensic linguists have been pushing back on harmful language ideologies, and fighting for better representation for linguistic minorities in the legal domain. We’re…
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For this special live LingFest23 episode, we’ll again be voting on tricky language issues, and our votes will be binding on all English users for…
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