From DeafWeekly:

NIGERIAN ASSOCIATION SAYS INTERPRETER DIDN'T INTERPRET ( Read more... )

Yup, I'm (more or less) officially a Bachelorette of Arts. Or something. (The "more or less" is paperwork-related; also Montreal-hassle-nonsense-related ( Read more... )

Book Notice: Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521836067Author: Florian Coulmas ( Read more... )

(Title shamelessly stolen from, well, everywhere.)

From the Des Moines Register, 20 May 2005: "Kids soak up foreign-language skills"A number of programs in the Des Moines area (and elsewhere, but this isn't what this particular article is about) are offering early, intensive exposure to foreign languages, most often Spanish, but also "Chinese" (no ( Read more... )

Some of you may have guessed this from my "singular they" post a little while back; some of you I've actually discussed this with; and to some of you - hey, it's a pleasant surprise! ;c ( Read more... )

- Overheard on the bus just now (while on my way to see "The Interpreter," before I realized I was two hours early for the next showing): "I've been practicing in some pretty inappropriate places. Like the Widener microfiche room, of which I got kicked out of. Wait - of which I got kicked out."
As Geoff Pullum notes in his classic LanguageLog post ( Read more... )

Just pseudo-defended my thesis (meaning it wasn't actually under attack, I just had to give a mandatory but ungraded presentation about it at the senior thesis colloquium).

The thesis right after mine was:

A Girl in Boy's Clothing: An Exploration of Linguistic Cross-Dressing in Girls' MangaI examine the use of Japanese gender language in the ( Read more... )

Generals are over. They didn't win, but neither, I suspect, did I. But I'm happy with detente.

In the spirit of generals (and, soon, my undergraduate linguistic career) being over, I present:

Favorite linguistics example sentences (aka the ones I remember)

Fat people eat accumulates.

The horse raced past the barn fell.

Colorless green ideas ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a word, where currently I have a diagram. In the following diagram, - represents a romantic relationship and = represents a marriage.

A - B - C = D

Assuming that all the relationships are known to all parties (ie, no cheating) and that A and D know each other only through their respective partners, is there a word (in English or ( Read more... )

Also indirectly related to this weekend, or at least coming off of a conversation that happened this weekend. A question for English-speakers ( Read more... )