Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Canned synthesizer set on bouncy autoplay, monotone Swed-glish vocals, bare-bones lyrics of dubious syntax-this is the medicine that sweet Doktor Kosmos dispenses. Of course, you'd never actually want to listen to most of it for any length of time, but it's a cute, often masterfully comic item nonetheless...
According to William M. Todd, incoming dean of undergraduate education, computer use has also created an unexpected problem in the form of "word-processor syntax," where, he says, students put a thought in the middle of a sentence without thinking about how well it really fits there...
With a few exceptions, the windows of opportunity in the human brain do not close quite so abruptly. There appears to be a series of windows for developing language. The window for acquiring syntax may close as early as five or six years of age, while the window for adding new words may never close. The ability to learn a second language is highest between birth and the age of six, then undergoes a steady and inexorable decline. Many adults still manage to learn new languages, but usually only after great struggle...
...freedom and now the one under way, driven by silicon and imagination. And so the beautiful thing about Clinton and the horrible thing about him too is that he moves with these changes almost daily, modulating his positions to fit the changing moods. If Dole, in his style and syntax, often seems strangely off-key, Clinton is a tuning fork, banging himself again and again against the edge of the table to see if he can get even closer to perfect pitch...
...little more than misspelled accounts of his exploits, posted to the Web each month. "I guess I'm the product of the pubblic schools," Walter writes, noting that he could post without the misspellings, but "a few profesional writers told me to keep it as my spelling and syntax are dialectal like Mark Twain and Willaim Foulkner...