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Oikolect!

Got it! The term for a family’s linguistic idiosyncrasies is oikolect: oikolect@Everything2.com Don’t you love it when you find the Right Term(tm)? The reason I’m excited is that I found it in a neat...

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Euro-American?

Rex, over at anthro blog Savage Minds, was questioning (or just asking about) people’s use of “Euro-American” as a label for different groups of people. He was concerned about ethnic and/or “racial”...

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Another Point for Wikipedia: Rousseau's Citizenship

Compare the following two articles on Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Britannica Online Encyclopedia Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia At the onset of the first...

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