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Jenni Young

Look Up - YouTube - 0 views

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    A spoken word film for an online generation - is social media an oxymoron?
Jenni Young

George Szirtes: what being bilingual means for my writing and identity | Education | th... - 0 views

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    Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes writes in both English and his native tongue. He contemplates bilingualism and belonging
Jenni Young

Relatively speaking: do our words influence how we think? | Education | theguardian.com - 0 views

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    Linguistic relativity can tell us about our perceptions of reality and the relationship between language and the way we think
Jenni Young

An Artist Took Disney Characters and Put Them Into Real Life Situations - PolicyMic - 0 views

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    A series called "Disney Unhappily Ever After" re-imagines favorite animated classics and transforms them into realist horror stories.
Jenni Young

Cultural vocabularies: how many words do the Inuits have for snow? - 0 views

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    The Inuits are not alone in having many words to describe a thing that preoccupies them, patterns occur in the vocabularies of many cultures
Jenni Young

#GirlsCan: Women Empowerment | COVERGIRL - YouTube - 0 views

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    Cover Girl commercial
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    Cover Girl commercial
Jenni Young

Slip of the Tongue by Karen Lum - YouTube - 0 views

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    Film by Karen Lum, featuring spoken word piece by Adriel Luis, touches on language, beauty, ethnicity, gender…
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    Film by Karen Lum, featuring spoken word piece by Adriel Luis, touches on language, beauty, ethnicity, gender…
Jenni Young

Study Reveals Discrimination Starts Before Grad School - 0 views

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    Study showed that professors are much more likely to respond to a student who sounds like a white male than to a student who sounds like a female or minority.
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    Study showed that professors are much more likely to respond to a student who sounds like a white male than to a student who sounds like a female or minority.
Jenni Young

An Alarm Over the Incursion of Foreign Words - 0 views

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    While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
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    While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
Jenni Young

Beijing's call to ban foreign words in Chinese media meets with mocking satire | South... - 0 views

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    The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.
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    The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.
Jenni Young

'Literally' figuratively destroyed by program to remove the word's misuse | Books | the... - 0 views

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    A new browser plug-in displays all instances of the much-abused adverb as its traditional opposite. It's a figurative blast.
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    A new browser plug-in displays all instances of the much-abused adverb as its traditional opposite. It's a figurative blast.
Jenni Young

How language is literally losing its meaning - 1 views

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    The Oxford English Dictionary has accepted a new definition for the word literally - and it's not the only word changing beyond recognition. It's enough to, like, make one despair
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    The Oxford English Dictionary has accepted a new definition for the word literally - and it's not the only word changing beyond recognition. It's enough to, like, make one despair (Blog)
Jenni Young

Have we literally broken the English language? - 1 views

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    Opinion on the re-definition of "literally"
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    Opinion on the re-definition of "literally"
Jenni Young

For fcuk's sake - brands are swearing more than ever | David Boyle | Comment is free | ... - 0 views

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    US advertisers are increasingly trying to shock to gain attention on social media, but isn't branding becoming a redundant idea? (Guardian)
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    US advertisers are increasingly trying to shock to gain attention on social media, but isn't branding becoming a redundant idea? (Guardian)
Jenni Young

Popcorn cell mobile phone trick FULLY WORKING ! - YouTube - 0 views

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    Viral video - make popcorn with your cellphone
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    Viral video - make popcorn with your cellphone
Jenni Young

Internet cell phone popcorn HOAX - secret revealed - YouTube - 0 views

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    Viral advertising based on hoax - stealth marketing
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    Viral advertising based on hoax - stealth marketing
Jenni Young

Life and Other Four Letter Words: W A N T | The Daily Banter - 0 views

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    A former advertising agency 'creative' tells how they get consumers to WANT what they sell (Blog)
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    A former advertising agency 'creative' tells how they get consumers to WANT what they sell (Blog)
Jenni Young

Two Song Cycles by Liza Lim : The New Yorker - 0 views

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    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture (Review)
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    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture.
Jenni Young

"Tools of the Trade" starring Jackie Chan - YouTube - 0 views

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    Effective commercial against poaching rhinos for their horns
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    Interesting commercial against poaching rhinos for their horns
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