[lg policy] Fwd: Washington Post on bringing big data to bear on the Redskins debate

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: Sellers, Frances <Frances.Sellers at washpost.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:20 PM

Washington Post on bringing big data to bear on the Redskins debate

 Please circulate this to interested readers:



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/04/07/when-is-a-word-a-slur-one-linguist-argues-big-data-can-help-tell/



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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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