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• Language change in progress – us and our Red Sox buddies

  
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  Just now I was washing breakfast dishes and mentally composing a Facebook post, which started out “Last night was not a good night for Orioles – Red Sox – anti-Yankees fans! The three way tie for first place got broken in the worst direction! Us and our Red Sox buddies …” and I forget how that sentence was ...
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• Chinese: The Most Widely Spoken Language in the World

  
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  English has been the dominant global language for a century, and it is still recognized and studied in the majority of the countries worldwide; nevertheless, the most popular language is Chinese. The vast number of native speakers combined with those who use it as a second language , brings it to top the list as ...
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• "Chinese" well beyond Mandarin

  
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  A topic which I have raised here and elsewhere a number of times is that of Sinitic topolects and languages ( www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp029_chinese_dialect.pdf ), and I have also called attention to the increasing domination of Mandarin in education and the media.  Even native speakers within China ...
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• North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns

  
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  When you need subtitles on shows where English is the first language of the person in North America, you have to conclude that there are may many dialects of English.  Linguist Rick Aschmann amassed information on North American English dialects, based on pronunciation patterns . This is a hobby of his and with ...
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• DARE, safe for the moment

  
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  Youve seen the news by now — anywhere from the Log to the local news —that the Dictionary of American Regional English has secured enough funding to keep going. The good news actually trickled in over a couple of weeks but its all come together now. A lot of people on campus, in the American Dialect Society ...
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• A reprieve for DARE

  
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  A month ago, I posted an " SOS for DARE ," detailing the impending financial threat faced by the Dictionary of American Regional English , a national treasure of lexicography. At the time it appeared that the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, where DARE is based, would be unable to ...
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• Story Bud? Funding the feature film

  
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  Remember Story Bud? , the video of Irish slang and colloquialisms I shared here in February? Director Jenny Keogh has filmed a second clip, How’s About Ye? , in the same style, and it’s great fun altogether. There are on-screen glosses for the phrases, but because the delivery and editing are rapid-fire – ...
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• North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns

  
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  There are 8 major English dialect areas in North America... The first 6 of these begin at the eastern seaboard and proceed west, reflecting western settlement patterns. For many of the cities or towns on the map, you can listen to an audio or video sample of speech of a native (more specifically, someone who was ...
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• Documenting China’s Disappearing Dialects

  
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  Up to 40% of China’s minority languages may be at risk of extinction . Phonemica, a project aiming to document China’s threatened languages and dialects through stories told by native speakers, is currently raising funds through indiegogo : We’re a small group of linguists (and a growing group of ...
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• Support Phonemica!

  
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  My linguistically-inclined friends at Sinoglot have been quietly building out an amazing project called Phonemica . What’s Phonemica? Phonemica is a project to record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese in order to preserve both stories and language for future ...
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• Chinese Dialects — uniquely Singapore

  
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  I think the loss of Chinese dialects in Singapore is one of the saddest things to happen. It’s almost like the loss of an entire language, to me   Many of the Chinese Dialects used here are supposedly also used in China, Malaysia etc. But really, no one speaks it the way Singaporeans do (Of course, no one speaks ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Loving Tribute to Mom

  
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  We held a small funeral service for mom on April 16, 2013 in Haines City, Florida. I was blessed enough to have the strength to say a tribute to her during the service. I thought I would share it with you in honor of her memory… IN LOVING MEMORY of Julia Gebert Lozano Kho January 28, 1942 – April 12, 2013 ...
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• Response to Education Minister’s stance on learning dialects

  
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  By Philip Ang Dear Minister Heng I refer to the article “ Dialects will burden school kids more ”. (My Paper Monday, Apr 22, 2013) In the article, you did not cite any supporting study but instead offered your thoughts on how complicated our language environment is. Your agreement with feedback that ...
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