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OccultHawk

10-20-2020 09:54 PM

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Cornell English department votes to change name to distinguish from 'English as a nationality'

The English department at Cornell University has voted to change its name in an effort to distinguish English the language from English the nationality.

The department at the Ivy League university in New York voted to change its name to “the department of literatures in English” during its first faculty meeting of the fall semester earlier this month, the student-led Cornell Daily Sun reported Wednesday.

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Janszoon

10-20-2020 09:57 PM

Is that something people were confused about?

OccultHawk

10-20-2020 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 2140237)

Is that something people were confused about?

Probably only people who think literature is a countable noun.

The Batlord

10-20-2020 10:23 PM

I guess, unless your mother's eggs are just that valuable.

Janszoon

10-21-2020 07:41 AM

No One Is Shocked 3 Skulls Were Found in Cannibal Corpse Guitarist's Home

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You don't play in a band called Cannibal Corpse without expecting to raise some eyebrows at the very least. Unfortunately, being part of the band didn't do guitarist Pat O'Brien any favors when his home was investigated following an arrest and police found multiple firearms and human skulls.

Frownland

10-21-2020 09:10 AM

Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano

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This month Mr. Jarrett, 75, broke the silence, plainly stating what happened to him: a stroke in late February 2018, followed by another one that May. It is unlikely he will ever perform in public again.

“I was paralyzed,” he told The New York Times, speaking by phone from his home in northwest New Jersey. “My left side is still partially paralyzed. I’m able to try to walk with a cane, but it took a long time for that, took a year or more. And I’m not getting around this house at all, really.”

Janszoon

10-21-2020 09:36 AM

That sucks. Maybe he can start making a cappella records of just his grunts without piano accompaniment.

Psy-Fi

10-22-2020 08:42 AM