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June 17, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Joshua
What’s ELY?
June 18, 2010 at 1:13 am
jeff
That is a relic of a dying Uto-Aztecan language; loosely translated it means “rocks my world.”
June 18, 2010 at 8:29 am
Alicia
1. How do you create a word cloud like that?
2. Do you discuss ELY in your classes?
June 19, 2010 at 3:27 am
jeff
1. i used wordle.com.
2. i don’t just discuss it, i live it.