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Neighbour languages: linguistic coexistence
(The Economist 20-8-2014) CROSSING the Oresund bridge from Denmark to Sweden is not merely a matter of a cringe-inducing toll
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin (27/06/2014)
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin (7-6-2014)
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Rise of the machine translators (The Economist, Jun 4th 2014)
THOSE passingly familiar with machine translation (MT) may well have reacted in the following ways at some point. “Great!” would be one such, on plugging something into the best-known public and free version, Google Translate, and watching the translation appear milliseconds later. “Wait a second…” might be the next, from those who know both languages. […]
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Who gets to graduate in the US? (NYT 15-5-2014)
Who Gets to Graduate? By PAUL TOUGHMAY 15, 2014 For as long as she could remember, Vanessa Brewer had her mind set on going to college. The image of herself as a college student appealed to her — independent, intelligent, a young woman full of potential — but it was more than that; it was […]