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Lovers of Latin try to sell a dead tongue
A modest white schoolhouse near Brussels is in the vanguard of a long-struggling movement of Latin enthusiasts who refuse to say requiescat in pace to the ancient language. At Schola Nova, dozens of students are required to take up to 10 hours of Latin a week, but they don't dwell just on Virgil or Ovid.
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The Manchus ruled China into the 20th century, but their language is nearly extinct
The last emperors of China, the Qing Dynasty, were Manchus. Their language is close to dying out in modern China, so now there's a last-ditch effort to save it, and the link it provides to China's history and traditional medicine.
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Who Is The Real Satoshi Nakamoto? One Researcher May Have Found The Answer
The Internet did something strange last week. When a researcher named Skye Grey posted a detailed analysis of textual biases in the writing of shadowing.
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More men speaking in girls' 'dialect', study shows
More young men in California rise in pitch at the end of their sentences when talking, new research shows. This process is known as "uptalk" or "valleygirl speak" and has in the past been associated with young females, typically from California or Australia. But now a team says that this way of speaking is becoming more frequent among men. The findings were presented at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in California.
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How the Internet is killing the world’s languages
Less than five percent of current world languages are in use online, according to a recent study by prominent linguist András Kornai - and the Internet may be helping the other 95 percent to their graves. Those startling conclusions come from a paper published in the journal PLOSOne in October titled, appropriately, “Digital Language Death.” The study sought to answer a question that’s both inherently fascinating and little-discussed: How many languages exist online?
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Deaf outraged at 'fake' interpreter at Mandela service
Faking it til you make it has a time and place - but onstage at Nelson Mandela's memorial service is never going to be one of them.
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List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena.
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7 Sentences That Sound Crazy But Are Still Grammatical
This Grammar Day, let's not look at grammar as a cold, harsh mistress. She can also be a fun, kooky aunt. Here are some tricks you can do to make crazy sounding sentences that are still grammatical.
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Down with red ink: A teacher's confession
A decade has gone by since I started teaching English to children...
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What the F***?: Why We Curse
A look at why we curse by Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard.
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Shia LaBeouf apologizes for plagiarizing artist Daniel Clowes in short film
Shia LaBeouf has admitted not crediting an author as the inspiration for his short film. After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last year, LaBeouf's well-received HowardCantour.com was released on Vimeo earlier this week, but the actor was soon to be in the headlines for the wrong reasons as BuzzFeed revealed his film heavily plagiarized plot and dialog from Daniel Clowes' short story "Justin M. Damiano."
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Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK
The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of the society’ s continuity and change, its local history and Britons' day-to-day lives. This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century.
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This Dictionary Shows American English Is Way More Colorful Than You Thought
It’s finally finished. Since 1965, linguists, lexicographers, and wordsmiths have been waiting for the editors of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), charting under-the-radar regional language nationwide, to reach the end of the alphabet.
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An Incomplete List of Things That Are Not Actually “Hacking”
So, how's your hacking going today? Pretty good? Really slam dunked that upload, eh? Aces, champ. I'm happy for you. I'm not, however, happy about the course of the word "hack." Near as I can tell it used to have something to do with breaking into a computer system and doing cool or at least meaningful stuff
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'Whatever' rated most annoying word
Hands down, no word grates on Americans more than "whatever," a public opinion survey says. The casual "whatever" was rated the most annoying word by 38 per cent of 1,173 adults surveyed in early December by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, based in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. That is up from 32 per cent a year earlier, pollsters said. What's more, "whatever" has topped the annoying word charts for five straight years.
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Apparently reCAPTCHA has Digitized All the Books
When I first came across the reCapctha project, then at Carnegie-Mellon, now a Google owned product, I thought the concept was one of the most clever things ever.
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How Language Seems To Shape One's View Of The World
Speaking another language fluently seems to affects what you notice and how you remember events.
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Commercial Grammar
For a lot of people, good grammar is like the opera — elitist and snobby. Never mind that opera tickets cost less than the nose-bleeders at almost any sporting event in the country or that the stories in opera are as Everyman as it gets: boy meets girl, boy loses girl. It’s all about perception.
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12 New Words Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013
With last year edging quickly out of view in 2014's rear view mirror, there's still a pivotal part of 2013 logophiles shouldn't be quick to forget: a bumper crop of new words bolstering the Oxford English Dictionary's lexicon. The OED upped its entry count with three updates last year—here's a snapshot retrospective of the words committed to dictionary immortality in 2013.
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6 Commonly Used Phrases That Make Everyone Hate You
We humans come up with a lot of terrible things to say every single day. But YOLO, amirite?
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