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Brand Names and Linguistics

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

I gave a lecture to Kyle Rawlins‘ “Language and Advertising Class” at Johns Hopkins today, about brand names from the perspectives of the advertiser, consumer, and linguist.  PDF of slides is below.

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Porn Star, Pony, or Politician?

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Racehorses, politicians, and adult film stars all have funny names. Can you tell who’s who when it comes to running hard, and beating out the competition?

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