BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Slang: Degradation or Reinvigoration of English? PRODID:-//Apple Computer\, Inc//iCal 2.0//EN X-WR-RELCALID:5DDCEDBB-64BF-4B38-B736-BFFF7F1D1F9B X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20070417T164615Z BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20070311T070000 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070422T180000 SUMMARY:Slang: Degradation or Reinvigoration of English? UID:8DD4D04C-FF7A-49E1-AC75-AC69DD83AE21 SEQUENCE:9 DTSTAMP:20070417T164607Z DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, April 22\, at 6 p.m. PST Grant Barrett of the Do uble-Tongued Dictionary will be joining Anu Garg of A Word a Day to disc uss the nature of slang: its place in English\, whether it represents li nguistic innovation or corruption\, and why people have such a visceral reaction to it. Go to:\n\nhttp://wordsmith.org/chat/\n\nIt's an open tex t chat\, meaning that anyone with a computer can sign on to the chat for um and lob questions. Grant will be answering them at 80 words per minut e (as fast as he can type) and Anu will be handling moderation. We expec t a lively and vigorous conversation from all corners of the Internet. DURATION:PT1H BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER:-PT15M X-WR-ALARMUID:86D1B9EE-B9F6-4EA6-A96C-A814FD43A19B X-ICF-AUTOALARM:TRUE END:VALARM BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER:-PT1H X-WR-ALARMUID:4003ECC2-7F49-431E-99FF-7852BBB40D77 DESCRIPTION:Event reminder END:VALARM BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER:-PT2H X-WR-ALARMUID:D9FB5503-E953-4EE6-A5D6-11A2F0B56688 DESCRIPTION:Event reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR