Group items tagged

I have been reading Larry Ferlazzo's revies of his best posts over the years and looking over some of the ones that are still active. This one, Culture Crossing, seems to have some great inf about cultural differences (and also exploring our own cultures). A lot of potential here, I think

Interesting article about culture and translation (specifically the new Chinese leader and an interpreter's translation of an apology...or was it?)

You may already have heard about this huge project from Google - the Ngram Viewer - an online tool for analyzing the history of language and culture, but there are some improvements.  The corpus is mind-boggling lare - 20 million books, and not just in English.  Plus the words have been tagged with their parts of speech.  There are some other functions that let you narrow in on particular groups of words...it seems to have some concordancer functions.  Well, you can read this article to learn more.

Interesting reflection on using the Discussion Board in really meaningful ways.