<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">yup. read the whole post. i touch on some of that<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>____________________</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Dennis Baron</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Professor of English and Linguistics</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Department of English<span class="Apple-converted-tab"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-tab"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">University of Illinois<span class="Apple-converted-tab"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">608 S. Wright St.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Urbana, IL 61801 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">office: 217-244-0568</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">fax: 217-333-4321</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></div></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EE" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-size: 11px; "><a target="_new" href="http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron" title="My faculty home page" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron</a></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">read the Web of Language:</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-size: 11px; "><a target="_new" href="http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage" title="The Web of Language blog" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage</a></span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EE" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div></span></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Felecia Briscoe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0px">Hi Dennis,<br> <br> Thanks for the info. I am glad it isn’t your words though. Because when neuroscientist Denis G. Pelli and graphic designer Charles Bigelow (he created the Lucida font) find that the internet has brought us to the brink of universal literacy, and we're also fast approaching universal authorship: "Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish." It seems to be ignoring those large segments of the worlds population, millions, (in which women are over represented) who are not reading and who do not have access to computers linked to the internet. Are these people going to continue to be marginalize, excluded, and invisibilized in our discourse.<br> <br> <br> On 10/25/09 4:13 PM, "Dennis Baron" <<a href="mailto:debaron@illinois.edu">debaron@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<br> <br> </span></font><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0px">There's a new post on the Web of Language: <a href="http://bit.ly/weblan"><http://bit.ly/weblan></a> <br> <br> 2 thumbs up? Reachers predict by 2013 we'll all be tweeting<br> <br> Researchers are predicting that Twitter is going global: in just four years, everyone on the planet -- some 10 billion people -- will be tweeting.<br> <br> Writing in Seed magazine, neuroscientist Denis G. Pelli and graphic designer Charles Bigelow (he created the Lucida font) find that the internet has brought us to the brink of universal literacy, and we're also fast approaching universal authorship: "Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish."<br> <br> To illustrate this writing revolution, Pelli and Bigelow have assembled what can only be called an "authorgraph," a chart plotting the number of book authors from the middle ages to the present, and the far greater number of authors using new media -- blogs, Facebook, and Twitter -- since the year 2000.<br> <br> read the whole post on the Web of Language <a href="http://bit.ly/weblan"><http://bit.ly/weblan></a> : <a href="http://bit.ly/weblan">http://bit.ly/weblan</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> ____________________<br> </span></font><font size="4"><font face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><span style="font-size:14.0px">Dennis Baron<br> Professor of English and Linguistics<br> Department of English </span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0px"> <br> </span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14.0px">University of Illinois <br> 608 S. Wright St.<br> Urbana, IL 61801 <br> </span></font><span style="font-size:12.0px"><br> office: 217-244-0568<br> fax: 217-333-4321<br> <br> </span></font><font color="#0000EE"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0px"><a href="http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron">http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron</a> <a href="http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron"><http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron></a> <br> </span></font></font><font size="4"><font face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><br> read the Web of Language:<br> </span></font></font><font color="#000080"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0px"><a href="http://www.illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage">http://www.illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage</a> <a href="http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage"><http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage></a> <br> </span></font></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><font color="#0000EE"><span style="font-size:12.0px"><br> </span></font><span style="font-size:12.0px"><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <hr align="CENTER" size="3" width="95%"></span></font><span style="font-size:12.0px"><font face="Monaco, Courier New">_______________________________________________<br> This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a><br> To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list</a><br> </font></span></blockquote><span style="font-size:12.0px"><font face="Monaco, Courier New"><br> </font></span> </div> _______________________________________________<br>This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>