Language

Shrill, bossy, emotional: why language matters in the gender debate

By Laura Hood, The Conversation, May 9, 2021 There has been much debate recently about the way women who work in our federal parliament are treated. This discussion has highlighted that society continues to place very different values on the way women and men behave. Language – as a behaviour – holds a mirror up …

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A small town in Sweden fights to preserve a dying forest language

By Bianca Hillier, The Weeek, 9 May, 2021 An organization called Ulum Dalska, based in a small Swedish town called Älvdalen, is on a mission. For decades, members have been working hard to help save a language called Elfdalian, a remnant of Old Norse. “We had our first meeting on the 1st of June in 1984,” …

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Why ‘common language’ could clarify the DSP route through network complexity

  By Ian Scales, Telecomtv, 30, April 2021 In the late 19th Century a chap called Zamenhof came up with the idea of ‘constructing’ a global second language – Esperanto –  which everyone could learn so that they could converse with people who didn’t share their own, be they primary speakers of English, French or …

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‘It’s a part of who we are’: Inuit work to revitalize endangered dialect

A group of Inuit women gather around a table over cups of coffee and speak to each other in a language that is expected to vanish over the next two generations. The women live in Cambridge Bay in western Nunavut. They’re speaking Inuinnaqtun, a dialect of Inuktut, while recording a podcast for the Kitikmeot Heritage …

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Mind your language: animals may suffer if you don’t

By Monalisa Bhattacherjee on September 1, 2020 In the 1950s a theory championed by two linguists, Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, became popular. The kind of language we use, they argued, influences our worldview and the way we conceptualize reality around us. Adopting this hypothesis, cognitive linguist George Lakoff has presented groundbreaking work, arguing that we live in a metaphorical reality. …

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Lost in translation! People share hilarious English signs they’ve spotted overseas – including a barber called the ‘evil saloon for men’

By CHLOE MORGAN FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 08:23 GMT, 30 January 2020 Leaving any country is daunting when you don’t speak the language, and while many places offer English translations, it doesn’t mean they’re always reliable.   People from across the globe have shared some of the funniest notices they’ve ever come across – including an airport sign that warns …

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The death of language? How translation apps are poised to change the world

Afrikaans into Khmer? No problem. Hungarian into Punjabi? Easy peasy. Once the realm of pure science fiction, new technology that allows people to communicate instantly with each other using different languages is now a reality – and it’s poised to change the world.  That at least is the bold claim made by experts amid rapid …

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