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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://ift.tt/QnGpK4
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Mind your slanguage, and don’t be an erk. YOLO
Slang should be celebrated, not condemned. It enriches our language from bloomers to booty, from cool to ceebs, and from doing a Lohan to LOLZ The borderline-cult film Mean Girls contains an amusing insight into young people’s eagerness to leave their linguistic trademark on the world. Schoolgirl Gretchen Wieners describes any pleasant situation as "fetch" […]
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La migración es cosa de metáforas (El País 28-3-2014)
OPINIÓN SECCIONES TRIBUNA La migración es cosa de metáforas Los giros retóricos exageran el número de inmigrantes y los pintan como hostiles
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Johnson: OK computer
JOHNSON’s first foreign-language class was typical: a gaggle of 14-year olds, hormones raging, are gathered in a classroom when Señora White strolls in. ¡Hola y bienvenidos a la clase de español! Puberty is a terrible time to begin a language. One’s own parents are embarrassing enough. But to repeat nonsense words with strange gurgling and burbling sounds […]
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Lose the language and you lose Shakespeare
His plays don’t become ‘accessible’ by translating them into ‘yoofspeak’. There’s nothing left to access Down with the Bard The news that Shakespeare is being translated into yoofspeak ("Dere was somefing minging in de state of Denmark," et cetera), while revolting, of course, struck me as not exactly news. Hasn’t this been done before? Or […]
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Bugger! Microsoft has deleted the dirty words
There’s precious little fun to be had with the thesaurus built into my computer Wrong type of language: computer dictionaries censor the politically incorrect. Photograph: Getty In the words of John Cleese, I would like to register a complaint. via Books blog + Written language | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1o0NjDq