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	<title>Musings</title>
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	<description>Personal Thoughts on Language from Marcus Barrett</description>
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		<title>Mark - [or Sarc?] my Words?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meaning What You Say Online&#8230;
A firm (see below) has attempted to register its copyright in a new grapheme - the &#8216;Sarcmark&#8217;. The aim of this new symbol is to enable us to show the irony often meant but seldom realised in online chatter.
This raises some interesting questions for students of social contexts and language. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And The Winner Is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web 2.0 - Said to be the Millionth Word
An Internet research firm claims that last year (2009) saw the coining of the one millionth word in the English Language. And just as soon as this had been done, there was a fizzle of counter-claims as lexicographers doubted or disagreed.
The point of note for us in this [...]]]></description>
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