Hello folks!
It’s been a while since I last produced some content for this website and my podcast. Last week, I had some very interesting feedback from a friend regarding a comment I made about the salutation Dear Sirs towards the end of episode 43. Anna K. informed me that her language school teaches students that the salutation Dear Sirs should be used when addressing a legal entity. I had never come across this before and so I decided to do a little reading and investigating.
This (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/17/equality-womens-rights-gender-law) is a link to an article from The Guardian. If you’d like to check out Ken Adams’ article, you’ll find it here (https://www.adamsdrafting.com/salutation-letter-agreement-sent-to-a-company/). It’s very informative and definitely worth a read. Have a look at this (https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/women-lawyers/easy-tips-for-gender-inclusion) to find out what the UK Law society has to say and here (https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/law-society-will-stop-using-dear-sirs/) is a link to an announcement by the Irish Law Society on the same topic.
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15 Nov 2020
Episode 44 Cognate objects
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this week while preparing a lesson for one of my grammar classes I stumbled across a footnote in a grammar book on cognate objects. The topic is absolutely fascinating from both a grammar perspective and a cognitive linguistic perspective. If anyone is interested in reading more about this topic, I highly recommend this article (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272220598_English_cognate_object_constructions_and_their_transitivity). In particular, chapters 4 and 5 of this dissertation (https://www.google.com/url?cd=&esrc=s&q=&rct=j&sa=t&source=web&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp%2Findex.php%3Faction%3Dpages_view_main%26active_action%3Drepository_action_common_download%26item_id%3D30953%26item_no%3D1%26attribute_id%3D17%26file_no%3D1%26page_id%3D13%26block_id%3D83&usg=AOvVaw21nRoxIyqMfaSjbCj9lBEN&ved=2ahUKEwjSw-_9-IHtAhVNNOwKHSkcCboQFjARegQIHBAC) are worth reading if you have some time on your hands.
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1 Nov 2020
Episode 43 Titles/Honorifics
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This week I’m chatting with you about how to address people in emails. In this episode I have things to say about honorifics and mention the conversation about gender-neutral titles. If you are interested in reading more about that, check out this link (https://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/mx-a-new-gender-neutral-title).
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