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Topic: Language (page 6)

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"He" and "she" doesn't cut it

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Racism's sinister word games

Aaron R. Hanlon
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McDonald's self-hating complex

Geoffrey Sant
Tamir Rice, Oprah Winfrey, Mike Brown, Barack Obama (AP/Reuters/Jordan Strauss/Saul Loeb)

"Black" or "African-American"?

Brittney Cooper
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Joanna Rothkopf
(Wikimedia)

Secret philosophy of language

Daniel Cloud
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1448759p1.html'>LoloStock</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

RIP "clickbait"

Benjamin Hart
Yearbook photo of Adnan Syed, the subject of "Serial" podcast

RIP "storytelling"

Benjamin Hart
Piers Morgan (Reuters/Andrew Burton)

"Grotesque, odious, evil"

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/Donald Traill)

A word war

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-764746p1.html'>J. Quendag</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

RIP "mansplaining"

Benjamin Hart
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-69636p1.html'>Stocksnapper</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

The absurd history of slang

Jonathon Green
Thomas Friedman (AP/Mark Lennihan/Salon)

The rise of the "celebrithet"

Benjamin Hart
Scanning electron microscopic image of Ebola virions (Public Library of Science)

The problem with "Ebola"

Randy Malamud
John Roberts at his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, Sept. 13, 2005 (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

The power of analogy

John Pollack
Shia LaBeouf (AP/Joel Ryan)

Jenny Kutner
(AP)

Jenny Kutner
Zosia Mamet in "Girls," William Shakespeare (HBO/Mark Schafer/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-69636p1.html'>Stocksnapper</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Internet slang goes way back

Cameron Hunt McNabb
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Prachi Gupta
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The truth about clichés

Orin Hargraves
Iggy Azalea (AP/Joel Ryan)

Iggy Azalea's post-racial mess

Brittney Cooper
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-94517953/stock-photo-portrait-of-young-woman-covering-her-mouth-with-hand-looking-shocked.html?src=gnwSVj2wFXKodkMYV8jikA-1-43'> baki </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Julie M. Rodriguez

Michael Reid Roberts - The American Reader
James Gandolfini in "The Sopranos," Matthew McConaughey in "True Detective," Taylor Schilling in "Orange Is the New Black" (HBO/Netflix/Salon)

"Breaking Bad" isn't "content"

Benjamin Hart
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