There are several things I didn't fully understand when I went to Yahoo! about five years ago. I'd like to repeat them as people in academia may not yet understand them intuitively.
This post was originally published on the All things Linguistic blog about a year ago by Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen started blogging as a linguistics grad student at McGill University, but is now a full-time pop linguist, bridging the gap between linguistics and the general public. She writes pop linguistics articles for various places and is currently writing a book about…