Few Things ou Little Things?
Uma leitora dias atrás perguntou em nossa página no Facebook sobre a diferença entre dizer few things ou little things. Para ela, o correto deveria ser few things. Pois, things (plural) é contável;...
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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Dismisses Dean of Max Weinreich Center -...
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Dismisses Dean of Max Weinreich CenterJewish Daily ForwardThe Institute is also looking to create a chair in Yiddish language and linguistics, which will be a...
View ArticleSpeaker Spotlight: Brian Makas – Marketing Technologist
We recently posed some of our attendees’ most frequently asked questions to speakers who will be at this year’s Gilbane Conference in December. Between now and the start of the …
View ArticleTranslation and Food
I’ve long been fascinated by food and food writing/translation, as I’ve posted about here before. So you can imagine how excited I was to read about this upcoming conference on food and translation....
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Pension reform group sues to change ballot language - Cincinnati.com
Pension reform group sues to change ballot languageCincinnati.comThe group pushing to eliminate the Cincinnati pension plan through a charter amendment ballot initiative sued on Thursday to change the...
View ArticleSayable but not writable
The distinguished Chinese linguist, Y. R. Chao, developed the concept of "sayable Chinese" and wrote a series of books illustrating what he meant by it. Basically, what Chao intended by "sayable...
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IFC/Sundance Selects Chief Rips Oscar's Foreign Language Selection Process...
Hollywood ReporterIFC/Sundance Selects Chief Rips Oscar's Foreign Language Selection Process ...Hollywood ReporterJonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, is irked that his films...
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"A recent study shows that sitting for long periods of time could be bad...
You're reading a news website. There's an article about a health risk that scientists have discovered. The article starts this way. A recent study shows that sitting for long periods of time could be...
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"Do you still want to get together?"
You made vague plans to meet an old friend of yours this weekend, but you haven't heard from her and want to check to make sure that she hasn't changed her plans. You ask this. Do you still want to...
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Better verbal development during childhood linked to later drinking and...
Previous research has found contradictory linkages among cognition, verbal skills, and later alcohol use. A new study has found that better verbal development during childhood predicts more frequent...
View ArticleThe California No and the East Asian No
I recently came across the term “California no” on Urban Dictionary. It is defined as: The way rejection tends to be handled by Californians, who are sunny in disposition and less brusque than East...
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New Linguistics Book Examines Gender and Language Patterns - DigitalJournal.com
New Linguistics Book Examines Gender and Language PatternsDigitalJournal.comThe impact of gender on everyday language is examined in great detail in “Making the Invisible Visible: Gender in Language”...
View ArticleWord of the day: Yo-Yo
Children who think of their yo-yo as a modern invention may be surprised to learn that their Chinese counterparts were playing with a form of the toy approximately 3,000 years ago. Greeks were also...
View ArticleBeginners 9: Going out
Talk about going out on the town with your friends – from “juergas” to “citas a ciegas”! Notes coming soon!The post Beginners 9: Going out appeared first on Spanish Obsessed.
View ArticleLexiophiles TGIFilm Selection No. 232
Miyazaki Hayao is, without doubt, the greatest animated film director to ever grace Japan. With his famous repertoire, which includes My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Kiki’s Delivery Service,...
View ArticleWords in the News: Snouts in the Trough
The Daily Mirror reports that MPs' expenses have soared to record levels with more than one in four putting family on the payroll. An inflation-busting 10% rise added £9 million to the bill and now...
View ArticleReuters Video: Twitter Plans IPO
Micro-blogging site Twitter says it filed with the SEC for a public offering, though it did so in a way that allowed it to keep the details secret for now. The move comes as the last big IPO, Facebook,...
View Article#97 Boletim do Fórum de Inglês
Howdy English Experts readers! No boletim de hoje quero mandar um Shout out para os leitores do EE de Portugal, Angola e Moçambique. A chegada de estudantes de outros países de língua portuguesa agrega...
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Go St. Vinny's!!!
The resale shop at St. Vincent de Paul's in Madison now has signs in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Ho-Chunk! That is so awesome!Thanks to Mateja Schuck for sending me these.
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