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		<title>Notes from a Linguistic Mystic may be dormant, but it&#8217;s far from dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello everybody!
As you can all doubtless tell, I&#8217;ve been quite busy.  I&#8217;m delighted to report that I was accepted into a Ph.D Program in Linguistics, and am now continuing my studies of Phonetics and Speech Perception at the Doctoral level.   Although this is a wonderful thing for 98% of my life, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2009/09/26/notes-from-a-linguistic-mystic-lives-may-be-dormant-but-it-is-not-dead/</link>
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		<title>Note from a very quiet Linguistic Mystic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you have noticed, I&#8217;ve not posted for the better part of three months, and I feel that my readers deserve some sort of explanation.  
The past few months have been a very exciting time in my life.  In addition to classwork, I&#8217;ve been working on my Master&#8217;s Thesis, taking MA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2008/03/23/note-from-a-very-quiet-linguistic-mystic/</link>
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		<title>Cryptorthography Contest Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit more than a month ago, I posted about Cryptorthography and mentioned the possibility of a Cryptorthography contest.  Well, the response in comments has been really impressive, and as such, I can confirm that such a contest will be happening.  
Although I&#8217;m still up in the air about the form of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/12/31/cryptorthography-contest-update/</link>
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		<title>From car sales to prostitution: phonological fun in every day life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often, the sort of things you study in Linguistics can seem really theoretical and abstract.  One of the most notoriously abstract fields in linguistics is Phonology, or the study of the sound systems of a language.  However, if you&#8217;re looking for it, even the most abstract bits of phonological theory can pop up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/11/11/from-car-sales-to-prostitution-phonological-fun-in-every-day-life/</link>
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		<title>Cryptorthography: Hiding your writings in plain sight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing is a wonderful thing.  It allows us to get things off of our minds, to remind ourselves of something, or even to communicate across long distances without the benefit of voice.  The beauty of an established writing system is that, if you write something down and leave it out in the open, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/11/08/cryptorthography-hiding-your-writings-in-plain-sight/</link>
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		<title>Migration complete, prepare for move to Warp speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings everybody.  I&#8217;d like to apologize for any minor breakage on the site this evening, I&#8217;ve been migrating the site over to my new hosting, a Joyent Shared Accelerator.  Hopefully, the site will now be far faster and more reliable, in addition to being a much more permanent home for lingmystic.
If any pages, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/10/20/migration-complete-prepare-for-move-to-warp-speed/</link>
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		<title>Pushing words off of the ivory tower&#8217;s balcony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings all.  I know it&#8217;s been a while since my last post, but I&#8217;m definitely still here. I&#8217;m not nearly back to a place where I can have a regular posting schedule (I&#8217;m working on an MA thesis and applying to doctoral programs), but I do intend to drop in new posts periodically when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/10/06/pushing-words-off-of-the-ivory-towers-balcony/</link>
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		<title>On sabbatical&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings everybody!
I just wanted to let you all know that I&#8217;m going to be on sabbatical for a few weeks from making LingMystic posts.  Between classes restarting and work, I&#8217;m not going to have much time, and I don&#8217;t like to just leave things silent.  
As always, I&#8217;ll be available for emailing (contact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/08/11/on-sabbatical/</link>
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		<title>See you today&#8230; tomorrow&#8230; in 12 hours&#8230; look, I&#8217;ll just see you.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a reader pointed me to a post on The Repeal of Gravity Blog discussing the strangeness that can sometimes arise with expressions of relative dates (like &#8220;last Monday&#8221; or &#8220;last March&#8221;.  He highlighted the troubles arising from using &#8220;last March&#8221; in April, which can often leave people wondering whether you mean the march [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/08/03/see-you-today-tomorrow-in-12-hours-look-ill-just-see-you/</link>
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		<title>The Interrobang: Stylistic Superfluity sans Sanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve been listening to GrammarGirl&#8217;s &#8220;Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve generally found the episodes to be very interesting, and even though I thought I knew some of the subjects well, I&#8217;ve definitely learned something each time.  I&#8217;d highly recommend giving it a listen.
However, in one of her recent episodes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/07/27/the-interrobang-stylistic-superfluity-sans-sanity/</link>
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