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Lara Cowell

France Drops 'Mademoiselle' From Official Use - 1 views

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social titles French feminism honorifics language change

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  • Lara Cowell on 01 Apr 12
     
    In a nod to changing social norms and the rise of feminism, France expurgates "mademoiselle" from its list of acceptable social honorifics. One of my former students, a Francophile living in Europe, snarkily notes that while the French are at it, they should reinstate "mondemoiseau"--a title designating men who'd not reached "chevalier", or knightly status.
Ryan Catalani

The Hearty And Humorous Article | The Economist - 1 views

www.economist.com/...legislative-titles

acronyms congress abbreviations

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  • Ryan Catalani on 29 Nov 11
     
    An article about Congress's predilection for making bill titles into acronyms, e.g.: - SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) - PROTECT-IP (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property) - E-PARASITE (Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation) - REPEAL (Revoke Excessive Policies that Encroach on American Liberties) - BOSS ACT (Better Oversight of Secondary Sales and Accountability in Concert Ticketing)
Lisa Stewart

Julia Weisenberg: Leet Speak - 1 views

www.julieweisenberg.com/presentations.htm

leet_speak

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  • Lisa Stewart on 22 Oct 10
     
    have to click on the presentation title
Ryan Catalani

The return of the final serial comma's vital necessity - 1 views

nielsenhayden.com/...012652.html

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  • Ryan Catalani on 28 Oct 10
     
    "Among those interviewed were his two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall." (Check the title of the page.)
  • Lisa Stewart on 28 Oct 10
     
    I've always believed in the final serial comma!
Ryan Catalani

Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? - By Ben Y... - 0 views

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punctuation

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  • Ryan Catalani on 13 May 11
     
    "According to Rosemary Feal, executive director of the MLA, [the American style] was instituted in the early days of the Republic in order 'to improve the appearance of the text. A comma or period that follows a closing quotation mark appears to hang off by itself and creates a gap in the line (since the space over the mark combines with the following word space).'" Ironically, though, this article only uses the "logical punctuation" style once - in the title.
  • Lisa Stewart on 19 May 11
     
    I love it when punctuation marks fit neatly within the quotation. The opposite makes me feel strangely queasy...
megangoh20

Swedes regain title of world's best non-native English speakers - The Local - 1 views

www.thelocal.se/...st-non-native-english-speakers

language Swedish learning bilingualism

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  • megangoh20 on 27 Nov 18
     
    Sweden has overtaken the Netherlands as having the best non-native English speakers. High proficiency was defined as the ability to carry out complex tasks in English. It is believed that this high proficiency is because of the high standard of language teaching in Sweden, along with subtitled media. In the eight years of testing proficiency in non-native English speaking countries, Sweden has never been below the top five.
jarenyuen17

The future of language - The Washington Post - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...the-future-of-language

Language Evolution Economics Business

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  • jarenyuen17 on 25 May 17
     
    Like the title, this article talks about the future of language, but more specifically it focuses on the future of language through economics. It shares statistics showing each language and the number of native speakers. To know surprise, Chinese leads with 1.39 billion speakers. Yet, the most vastly spoken language is English. English is abundant in 101 countries around the world, almost double of the next leading language Hindu, which is spoken in a respectable 60 countries. English is the most universal language, but researchers have noticed that Hindu and Chinese are two rapidly emerging economies. So, it wouldn't be unwise to learn either of these languages to give yourself a helpful advantage in your career. For example, if you have a business meeting with foreigners who speak Chinese and know Mandarin, you are likely to be successful in your endeavors.
codypunzal16

MIT claims to have found a "language universal" that ties all languages together - 2 views

arstechnica.com/...at-ties-all-languages-together

language brain

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  • codypunzal16 on 11 Oct 15
     
    Language takes an astonishing variety of forms across the world-to such a huge extent that a long-standing debate rages around the question of whether all languages have even a single property in common. Well, there's a new candidate for the elusive title of "language universal" according to a paper in this week's issue of PNAS.
haleighcreedon16

Trump's Coded Language & Blame Game Should Not Distract Us From Gun Tragedy - 0 views

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trump speech language coded_language blame_game NRA_leaders

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  • haleighcreedon16 on 23 May 16
     
    The New York Times ran a sobering cover story today on the epidemic of gun violence in the nation titled "A Drumbeat of Multiple Shootings, but America Isn't Listening". In the piece, journalists analyzed 358 armed encounters across the country where four or more people were killed or wounded - and the results were staggering.
James Ha

Gyeongsangdo Kids - 1 views

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  • James Ha on 13 Nov 11
     
    This is an interesting video that I found about two young kids trying to learn how to pronounce certain sounds correctly in Korean. The title is a reference to the Gyeongsangdo dialect (a Korean dialect); the poster of the video seems to think that people from Gyeongsangdo speak that way, but it is really not true (I know because I speak that dialect). The children are attempting to pronounce the ㅆ sound correctly ("ss" a very hard "s" sound) but instead seem to be using the ㅊ ("ch" sound) or the ㅅ sound (normal "s" sound). They also seem to have a little trouble with the ㄹ sound (a cross between an "r" and an "l" sound), which can be seen when one of the children changes his tongue positioning while saying 쌀 ("ssal" or rice). I'll put up a translation and transcript soon if anyone is interested. Thought it was relevant because of those readings we got last week...
  • James Ha on 13 Nov 11
     
    I put up a transcript with a translation, but it got shortened every time I refreshed the page, so I gave up :/
Ryan Catalani

Who Really Invented the Alphabet-Illiterate Miners or Educated Sophisticates? | Biblica... - 2 views

www.bib-arch.org/...alphabet.asp

alphabet hieroglyphics history

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  • . We must be careful not to be blinded by the genius of the invention of the alphabet, and assume, therefore, that such a breakthrough could be born only in the circles of highly educated scribes
  • the inventors of the alphabet could not read Egyptian—neither hieroglyphs nor hieratic.
  • The Semitic inventors of the alphabet found a new way of representing spoken language in script: Rather than capture whole words, they represented individual phonemes with icons. They were thus able to find a new solution for the picture-sound relationship. This leap in thought lead to a great innovation: a new, single, fixed relationship between picture and sound.
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  • My theory is that the alphabet was invented on the periphery of society, in Sinai, by people of Levantine origin, probably from somewhere on the Phoenician coast.
  • It is in these circles, that the alphabet was invented, and not for any administrative purpose. No alphabetic text in Sinai mentions any administrative matter, and no numbers are discernable. We find only gods names, personal names and very short sentences including titles and the word “gift.”
  • We must therefore surmise that the impetus for the invention of the alphabet was spiritual. The Canaanites wished to communicate with their gods, to talk to their gods in their own language and their own way.
  • By sustaining and perpetuating what historically helped them to rule (hieroglyphics or cuneiform), the institutions of the Ancient Near East left the door open to “disruptive innovation”—the alphabet!
Ryan Catalani

Babel's Dawn: Birds R Us - 3 views

www.babelsdawn.com/...birds-r-us-1.html

babble birds foxp2 critical_period

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  • Ryan Catalani on 19 Nov 10
     
    "Birds learn to sing their songs and babies learn to make the sounds of their language in the same way.... Furthermore, both birds and humans go through a period [critical period] when learning is best accomplished... the brain architecture supporting babbling and birdsong is similar...the same mutated gene, FOXP2, is implicated in both [birdsong and speech]."
  • Lisa Stewart on 19 Nov 10
     
    What a find! He talks about so many of the things we've touched on, and the fact that he titles his post "Birds R Us" is just too funny. :) I like that he provides the links to the original research, too.
Lisa Stewart

Language Log: May 2005 Archives - 0 views

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particles like

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  • Language Log like list Cristi Laquer at Invented Usage has recently posted "on like usage". She cites a number of blog posts on the various innovative uses of like (the hedge, the quotative and so on), including a Language Log post, and asks "If anyone knows of anything else out there, please let us know!" The classic (non-blog) reference is Muffy Siegel's paper "Like: The Discourse Particle and Semantics" (J. of Semantics 19(1), Feb. 2002). In thinking about other references on our site, I came to three conclusions at almost the same time. There have been quite a few Language Log posts that are relevant to the use of like; it's hard to find them; and none of them summarizes the epic panorama of that protean word's patterns of usage. To start with, here's a reasonably complete list, in chronological order, of Language Log posts relevant to like: It's like, so unfair (Geoff Pullum) Like is, like, not really like if you will (Mark Liberman) Exclusive: God uses "like" as a hedge (Geoff Pullum) Divine ambiguity (Mark Liberman) Grammar critics are, like, annoyed really weird (Mark Liberman) This construction seems that I would never use it (Mark Liberman) Look like a reference problem (Eric Bakovic) Seems like, go, all (Mark Liberman) I'm like, all into this stuff (Arnold Zwicky) I'm starting to get like "this is really interesting" (Mark Liberman) This is, like, such total crap? (Mark Liberman)
  • Lisa Stewart on 11 Jan 11
     
    Has a list of entries on the word "like"
keamyers-rosa15

Dual Adaptation in Deaf Brains - 0 views

www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34363/title/Dual-Adaptation-in-Deaf-Brains/

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  • keamyers-rosa15 on 16 Dec 14
     
    The brains of people who cannot hear adapt to process vision-based language, in addition to brain changes associated with the loss of auditory input.
leaharakaki15

The Effects of Music (Song) on Short-Term Memory Recall - 0 views

musicandspeech.voices.wooster.edu/ng-on-short-term-memory-recall

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  • leaharakaki15 on 03 Dec 14
     
    Background: Memory is an essential part of our lifestyles that is vaguely understood. Memory is our brain's ability to encode, store, retain, organize, alter, and recover information and past experiences (Klatzky, 1975). It is often divided into three stages known as sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1971).
kyleeyoshikawa15

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

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  • kyleeyoshikawa15 on 20 Mar 15
     
    Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance, there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title, "Science and Linguistics," nor the magazine, M.I.T.'s Technology Review, was most people's idea of glamour.
Lara Cowell

First Words - 1 views

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language New York Times words culture pop culture

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  • Lara Cowell on 06 Nov 15
     
    Courtesy the New York Times Magazine: thoughtful essays on what language reveals about our moment by rotating columnists Virginia Heffernan, Colson Whitehead, Amanda Hess, Michael Pollan, and others. Some sample titles: "The Underground Art of the Insult", "How `Flawless' Became a Feminist Declaration", "How Rock Star Became a Business Buzzword," "When You `Literally Can't Even' Understand Your Teenager."
gchen18

Guest lecturer explains impact of politically correct speech - 0 views

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language brain speech

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  • gchen18 on 10 May 17
     
    There is no such thing as "just language." Anne Curzan, associate dean of humanities and Arthur F. Thurnau professor of English at the University of Michigan, uses her knowledge of linguistics to discuss the social power language holds. Curzan is the author of "Gender Shifts in the History of English" and is the subject of a 36-lecture series titled "The Secret Life of Words." In Curzan's lecture, "Politically Correct: Do Our Language Choices Matter?," she discusses everything from sexist language to preferred pronouns in order to dispel the stigma against politically correct speaking. She spoke to students in the Memorial Union Thursday evening. "It is never just language," Curzan said. "As soon as anyone says it's just language, it's because they don't want to deal with the real issue."
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