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Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Global English Language Death Mother Tongue Culture Arabic

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More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)</div>

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Jenni Young on 24 Mar 14

More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)</div>

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Helping Hands? - 0 views

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Language Language Death Sign Language

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Jenni Young on 02 Mar 13

article about American Sign Language being used instead of local sign languages

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ushing Science's Limits in Sign Language Lexicon - 1 views

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Language Language change Sign language

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New sign language for scientific terms

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What your email sign-off really means - 0 views

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Cheers', 'all best', 'warm regards' - having to choose the best way to sign off an email is a minefield. Which one do you use for what occasion? (Guardian)

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Jenni Young on 22 Sep 13

Cheers', 'all best', 'warm regards' - having to choose the best way to sign off an email is a minefield. Which one do you use for what occasion? (Guardian)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Cheers', 'all best', 'warm regards' - having to choose the best way to sign off an email is a minefield. Which one do you use for what occasion? (Guardian)</div>

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You Say "Best." I Say No. - 4 views

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Language Text types Opinion Email Written Tasks

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It's time to kill the email sign-off.. Opinion column (Slate.com)

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Jenni Young on 22 Sep 13

It's time to kill the email sign-off.. Opinion column (Slate.com)

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When did our plainest punctuation mark become so aggressive? - 0 views

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Language Punctuation Language change Part 1 Mass communication Part 2 Internet

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The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it's started getting angry.

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