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		<title>The History of English in Ten Minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A series of 10 videos that sketch the history of the English language in about 10 minutes.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2011/06/the-history-of-english-in-ten-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Can &#8220;ish&#8221; be used as a free word? Well&#8230; ish&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting discussion on the possible degrammaticalization of the morpheme -ish.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2011/06/can-ish-be-used-as-a-free-word-well-ish/</link>
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		<title>For Japan With Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Japan With Love and the Bloggers' Day of Silence (March 18) will help raise funds for disaster relief, emergency shelter and supplies via Shelterbox.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2011/03/for-japan-with-love/</link>
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		<title>Language Diversity in the USA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting book about ethnolinguistic diversity in the States.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2011/03/language-diversity-in-the-usa/</link>
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		<title>Changing Pronounciation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Changing English... old words with a new pronunciations and possibly a new spelling.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2011/03/changing-pronounciation/</link>
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		<title>Pain in the English&#8230; and other blogs I love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a blog addict. I read blogs about all sorts of things. Of course I have a selection of language-related blogs that I follow regularly. Pain in the English is a very interesting website. It essentially deals with all those things about English that are so difficult to figure out both for (some) native [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2011/02/pain-in-the-english-and-other-blogs-i-love/</link>
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		<title>Berlusconi&#8217;s rhetoric and other rants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I happened to read a very interesting &#8220;language-related&#8221; article about Berlusconi&#8217;s unique use of words. The journalist pointed out that the Prime Minister uses a mix of old-fashioned, slightly unusual words, such as postribolo or turpe, next to colloquialisms and more or less vulgar terms like coglione or casino. This is a very distinct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2011/02/berlusconis-rhetoric-and-other-rants/</link>
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		<title>Barbara Berlusconi: Publish and Perish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just saying&#8230; Who said that a degree in philosophy was useless and that we should direct all our young people to the scientific/technical disciplines? We now have proof that that is a idea is wrong. Barbara Berlusconi, the daughter of our Prime Minister, has just graduated in Philosophy at age 26. A 3-year, first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2010/07/barbara-berlusconi-publish-and-perish/</link>
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		<title>Barbara Berlusconi e la carriera accademica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ora io dico. Chi ha detto che la laurea in filosofia è inutile e che bisognerebbe indirizzare tutti i nostri ragazzi verso le discipline tecnico scientifiche? Ora abbiamo la prova. Barbara Berlusconi, la figlia del nostro Presidente del Consiglio, si laurea a 26 anni in filosofia. Laurea triennale, capiamoci. E proclamata dottoressa con 110 su [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2010/07/barbara-berlusconi-e-la-carriera-accademica/</link>
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		<title>SSWL &#8211; Syntactic Structures of the World&#039;s Languages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just come across a very interesting website and resource for linguists called Syntactic Structures of the World&#8217;s Languages. It allows you to search for the syntactic structures that are part of a specific language system and to compare languages. So for instance, if you look up Italian, you will find a list of syntactic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gloriacappelli.it/2010/04/sswl-syntactic-structures-of-the-worlds-languages/</link>
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