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Detroit Municipal Parking Department – Violation Code 802 – Improper Parking
The vague “improper parking” - Not easily accessible to read or understand, but readily applied to whatever unsuspecting visitor to the general Wayne State Campus area. They love to prey on visitors & residents in one of the only thriving business districts in the city. See my letter to this department, below: - – - […]
Posted in: Michigan, Wayne State
IJMS – my favorite open-access journal
December 8, 2009
I discovered the International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS) last year. It is published by UNESCO, and since the late 1990s has included themes like “Pluralism and Multiculturalism in Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies”, “Multiculturalism and Political Integration in Modern Nation-States” and “Protecting Endangered Minority Languages: Sociolinguistic Perspectives”. I’m consistently delighted every time I consult something […]
Would you help a North American linguist?
November 24, 2009
Chantale Marentette, a linguistics student from Toronto, is doing a study on cross-border speech and language patterns in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Torontonians/Torontoans are also included in the study. The following survey was developed by Prof. Jack Chambers from the University of Toronto. It’s entitled “Dialect Topography”. If you are from any of these metro […]
December 21, 2009
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