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So I've decided to charge you every time you want to quote this blog.
It'll be a sliding scale -- $12.50 for the first 5 to 25 words. And if I don't like what you say, you cannot quote me at all.
KIDDING.
But this is apparently what the Associated Press has decided to do. More info at Boing Boing (link from Big A little a).
More information is at The Washington Post, for those who may think "oh it's just some bloggers getting upset it's not a real issue." (link from Melissa Wiley).
By: Ben Zimmer,
on 1/17/2008
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Now that U.S. voters are deeply enmeshed in the presidential primary season, I’ve been thinking a lot about the word primary. (Or maybe it was last week’s column on subprime that primed the pump.) Primary and its colleague caucus are distinctly American political terms for the processes by which a party’s candidates are selected, and tracing the usage of these words offers a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of the nation’s electoral process.
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