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A look at the most common verbal tic of scientists.
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The $109 billion transportation bill passed last week in the Senate has a title that doesn't even mention roads or highways.
Approximately 563 minutes ago, I noticed this peculiar analysis of language use on Pharyngula that suggested that we use the phrase "N minutes", where N is 5 or 10, with a s
A great abstract I found via
Well, technically speaking, it's Fox News, but, really, what's the difference? Fox News has a website, Fox News Latino, that ran with this headline:
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Are Having an Anchor Baby.
I've been listening to the Canadian science radio show Quirks & Quarks since January or so (when I very belately discovered their podcast). I'd been struck by the number of scientists (interviewees) who started sentences with "So".
(I haven't noticed it in science writing so much...)
(As in,
Q: "How did you discover that the rhesus monkeys were behaving that way?"
A: "So, we did this experiment...")
The North American scientists seem to use that verbal tic slightly more than the European ones, based on my impressions of the show, but that's just an impression.
Thanks for that link!