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Language village dean knighted PressPass

Language village dean knighted SKOGFJORDEN – The Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, Knight of the First Class, was bestowed here Saturday to Tove Irene Dahl, longtime dean of the Norwegian Language Village.

By Brad Swenson, Bemidji Pioneer , July 13, 2009

Lind: Double meanings in the English language PressPass

You have to pity immigrants to this country who have to learn the English language and deal with words that are spelled the same but are pronounced differently and mean different things.

By Bob Lind , June 15, 2009

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The language of health care

  Awhile back, I wandered into an Internet discussion about the use of the word "non-compliant" to describe patients who didn't follow the doctor's ins

Posted by: Anne Polta on Nov 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM | HealthBeat

OMG - WTF!

I teach in the land of acronyms – emergency management (which has its own acronym – EM). We have so many acronyms in EM that we have to have a book that lists them all. The book, tit

Posted by: madamgovnr on Jul 19, 2009 at 7:32 AM | The New Forty

OUR VOICES Effort begins to save Indian languages

American Indian leaders fear their native languages are being lost, calling the situation a crisis. "When a person passes away, it is like a whole dictionary that is gone," Lillian Rice told a Minnesota House committee. A Native American's language, she added, "is the very sense of

Posted by: Don Davis on Apr 3, 2009 at 4:13 PM | Capitol Chatter

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