Here’s a few good links for your Wednesday morning:<\/p>\n
First of all, Wakefield author Derek Pedley has written a ripper of a piece<\/a> on the\u00a0impact of SA police not speaking to the media. This is fascinating from a true crime perspective (get on Dead by Friday<\/em><\/a> if you haven’t already, by the by) but also important reading for every SA citizen.<\/p>\n Next, we have this article<\/a>\u00a0about hashtags and how they signify meaning\u00a0(fascinating and highly recommended for all you wordnerds out there). Contains the brilliant NY Times<\/a> quote:<\/p>\n When\u00a0Slate<\/em><\/strong>\u2018s\u00a0<\/strong>Julia Turner profiled the hashtag in 2012\u2014months before it would be named the\u00a0American Dialect Society\u2019s Word of the Year<\/a>\u2014she noticed that it allowed \u201cthe best writers to\u00a0operate in multiple registers at once<\/a>, in a compressed space.\u201d \u00a0She concluded, \u201cIt\u2019s the Tuvan throat singing<\/strong> of the Internet.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Next (and on theme), we have some Tuvan throat singing:<\/p>\n