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Language funding lost in translation - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Even by the standards of the Assembly, the spending of more than £500,000 on the translation of Irish and Ulster-Scots in the last four years is a scandalous waste of scarce publiBabel's...

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Treasure trove of Indigenous language documents unearthed at NSW State...

Treasure trove of Indigenous language documents unearthed at NSW State Library Yahoo!7 News A treasure trove of Indigenous language documents from across Australia has been discovered in the New South...

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Johnson: How hard is English? How weird?

JOHNSON gets mail. Tom K., a reader in Ottawa, asks:I had always understood English to be a reasonably easy language to learn, because it lacks many of the... (How hard is it to learn English and how...

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Top swear words: Most popular curse words on Facebook.

Babel's insight:There's a lot of 'shit' on facebook... No, really - it's the most commonly used swearword! Interesting to note that females use 'slut' more than males.See it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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How 5 Decades of Hispanic Immigration Gave Miami Its Own Unique English Dialect

Even native English speakers now sound slightly Latino.Babel's insight:The video helps to get the Miami accent!See it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.Babel's insight:The Whorf-bashing is a bit extreme, but this is a detailed article on the relationship...

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It's time for a national debate on language learning

The Guardian and British Academy are working together on a campaign to raise the profile of languages in the UK. Wendy Berliner explores the importance and roots of the campaignBabel's insight:Watch...

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Corpus Linguistics MOOC | Lancaster University

A free online course designed to help those interested in the social sciences and humanities analyse language will be offered as Lancaster University’s first MOOC (massive open online course) in...

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Bilingualism helps aphasia sufferers relearn primary language - Medical News...

Bilingualism helps aphasia sufferers relearn primary language Medical News Today Researchers have found that when a person who speaks two languages experiences brain damage leading to a language...

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Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na’vi real languages? - John McWhorter

What do Game of Thrones’ Dothraki, Avatar’s Na’vi, Star Trek’s Klingon and LOTR’s Elvish have in common? They are all fantasy constructed languages, or conlangs.Babel's insight:Read all about it from...

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10 Old English Words You Need to Be Using

If you learn just ten words of Old English this month, let them be these, from Mark Forsyth's The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language.Babel's insight:The next...

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Listen! Beowulf opening line misinterpreted for 200 years

It is perhaps the most important word in one of the greatest and most famous sentences in the history of the English language.See it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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▶ George Lakoff on Embodied Cognition and Language - YouTube

Speaker: George Lakoff, Cognitive Science and Linguistics Professor at UC Berkeley Lecture: Cascade Theory: Embodied Cognition and Language from a Neural Per...See it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Agatha Christie And Nuns Tell A Tale Of Alzheimer's

Those trying to diagnosis Alzheimer's say some answers may be in the writing.Babel's insight:Fascinating research on the evidence for Alzheimer's in writers' language useSee it on Scoop.it, via...

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It's time to challenge the notion that there is only one way to speak English

Why do we persist in thinking that standard English is right, when it is spoken by only 15% of the British population? Linguistics-loving Harry Ritchie blames Noam ChomskyBabel's insight:The author of...

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Baby Talk Helps Infants Learn Language Faster - Business Insider

Business Insider Baby Talk Helps Infants Learn Language Faster Business Insider Cooing at children may be frowned upon by some parenting manuals but new research suggests baby talk helps youngsters...

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Protest over Irish language rights held in Gaeltacht - Irish Times

thejournal.ie Protest over Irish language rights held in Gaeltacht Irish Times ... commissioner who has resigned.See it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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The Armenian Language & its Place in the Indo-European Linguistic Family

Charles de Lamberterie discusses the history of the Armenian language as part of the 17th Annual Vardanants Day celebration. Speaker Biography: Charles de La...See it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Why it's easier to swear at people in another language - io9

Why it's easier to swear at people in another language io9 People who speak two or more languages often prefer to use one language over another, depending on the situation. This is especially true...

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First J.K. Rowling, now Bitcoin’s founder: How a computer program analyzes...

Until recently, Patrick Juola was known primarily as the man who outed J.K. Rowling as the author of “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” a book she penned under another name.See it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Elephants can tell one language from another - CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/elephants-can-tell-one-language-from-another/Babel's insight:Animal language is also covered in Issue 4 of Babel magazineSee it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Language learning: what motivates us?

What happens in the brain when we try to learn a language can tell us a lot about what drives us to learn it in the first place. Lauren Razavi unpacks the scienceSee it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Shapes for Sounds: A Visual History of the Alphabet

What the anatomy of your tongue has to do with ship flags and the evolution of human communication. I'm endlessly fascinated by the intSee it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Germans try to get their tongues around gender-neutral language

Justice ministry's edict that state institutions must use 'gender-neutral' language is forcing the country to confront changeSee it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Do you like sesquipedalian words, or do you find them annoying?

Can those who enjoy using obscure, polysyllabic words, and those who are annoyed by them, get through to each other?See it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Are 'grammar Nazis' ruining the English language? - Telegraph

Split infinitives make them shudder and they’d never end a sentence with a preposition. But linguist Geoffrey Pullum has a message for all grammar pedants: you're wrongSee it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Untwisting tongues: Every student will benefit from the City of Leeds...

Three cheers and more for City of Leeds School which has decided that the best way of teaching English systematically and effectively is to teach it as a foreign language to everyone. It’s an...

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Mind your slanguage, and don't be an erk. YOLO

Gary Nunn: Slang should be celebrated, not condemned. It enriches our language – from bloomers to booze, from cool to ceebs, and from doing a Lohan to LOLZSee it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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What Britain's county dialects can tell us about the national character

Take a linguistic tour – a holus-bolus fidge-fadge, if you will – around some of Britain's most charming forgotten wordsSee it on Scoop.it, via Linguistics

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Where the F-Word Came From

By necessity, this one contains a bit of profanity. So you may or may not want to read through it first if you normally share these articles with humans of the particularly youthful persuasion. In its...

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