Since hearing about the U.S. Supreme Court decision to make no decision about that controversial phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance, you have surely been saying to yourself, "Yes, fine, we've heard all the lawyers and pundits jabbering on about the case. But what is the linguistic perspective?"

Well, dear reader, if you followed the languagelog feed, you ( Read more... )

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Apparently if I paid more attention to the news, I'd have known about this one already:

A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed, two fish cutters have claimed ( Read more... )

Gallup says that the high degree of religious tolerance reflects, in part, "not only a lack of knowledge of other religions but an ignorance of one's own faith." In some polls, he says, "you have Christians saying, 'Yes, Jesus is the only way' and also, 'Yes, there are many paths to God.' It's not that Americans don't believe anything; they ( Read more... )