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The weekly Linguistics and Society bulletin is out
Click this link to read the new issue: http://paper.li/jromerotrillo/1377864060 You can register to receive the bulletin every Friday
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Jafaican it? No we’re not | Mind your language
Comedians might play the patois of multicultural Britain for laughs, but spoken English has been drawing on influences from other languages and dialects for centuries British comedy has always liked a foreign voice to poke fun at, particularly one that hails from one of the former colonies; from Peter Sellers’ “Indian” accent to the characters […]
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Why nobody wants a ‘worthy’ book
It might be a good thing in other contexts, but a ‘worthy’ reputation will get you nowhere as a writer When did “worthy” become a pejorative term? Orange prize judge Kirsty Lang was praising Rose Tremain’s winning novel, The Road Home, when she said that “though it could have been a worthy book, it wasn’t”. […]
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Why I’m not allowed my book title
It’s called The Book of Negroes in Canada – but Americans won’t buy that term Are we on the same page? … Novelist Lawrence Hill It isn’t unusual for British or Canadian books to change titles when entering the American market. It happened to JK Rowling – Harry Potter has no “philosopher’s” stone in the […]
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When Class Became More Important to a Child’s Education Than Race
SARAH GARLANDAUG 28 2013, On a weekday afternoon in July, Jessica Klaitman pulled her 16-month-old daughter Hannah out of a stroller in the lobby of the New York Kids Club, a “child-enrichment center” with four classrooms, a dance studio, and gym space in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.
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When Spell-Check Can’t Help
Our latest roundup of homophone problems includes a number of very familiar entries. Sharp-eyed readers catch them; we should, too. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/when-spell-check-cant-help-20/