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• Annals of algorithmic communication

  
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  Yesterday afternoon, I got this interesting email message: The departure time for US Airways flight # 3314, from Detroit to Philadelphia on May 11 at 6:05 PM has changed. The flight is delayed due to air traffic at the destination airport. Your estimated time of Departure is 6:05 PM. 6:05 PM was the originally ...
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• Human Language Technologies for Language Learning, South Africa Nov 2013

  
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  Human Language Technologies for Language Learning Date: 11-Nov-2013 – 12-Nov-2013 Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa Contact Person: Helmer Strik Meeting Email: HLT4LL@let.ru.nl Web Site:  http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/hlt4ll/ Call Deadline: 09-Jun-2013  Meeting Description: Keynote Speakers: Nick Ellis, ...
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• New MA in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism

  
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  New MA in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), Johannes-Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany), Stockholm University (Sweden), and the University of Tartu (Estonia) are offering a new joint-degree MA program “Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism” (SoMu). The program ...
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• Mathematical Linguistics Scholarship at Charles University in Czech Republic, 2013/2014

  
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  The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University offers Linguistics Scholarship for two academic years 2013/2014 and 2014/2015. Candidates must meet .. [Read Full Scholarship Detail]
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• Books, Thoughts, Image, Action: Tobacco Road

  
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  No matter how strange the world may seem, theres always something even weirder around the corner. Picking up another Gogol tome again while moving around some books the other day, I started looking on other shelves and remembering. Heres a book thats a quick read, one I can never put down even though its ...
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• Modern Languages May Share Common, Ancient Ancestor

  
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  Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers claim to have found 23 words that they believe date back as far as 15,000 years. The words are still reflected in seven linguistic families that span from Europe to Asia, and may support the idea of a “proto-Eurasiatic” [...] The post ...
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• The singularity of Mother’s Day

  
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  Q: Which is correct, Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day? I have a customer who wants to use the name as an imprint on promotional gifts for the holiday. I think of Mother’s Day as singular possessive, my mother, but in this case is it correct? A: We also think it’s Mother’s Day, and so do the six standard ...
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• Popular idioms explained

  
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  Why are we ‘over the moon’ when we’re really happy? The idiomatic phrase ‘Over the moon’ is a very old expression that dates right back to the seventeenth century. The Oxford English Dictionary’s first example of this idiom is from 1718 and an extract from a play in which a character exclaims: ‘I ...
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• Michael Gove and correct grammar: let me explain this slowly | Michael Rosen

  
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  If you want to see more children fail to acquire Standard English, go ahead with your programme of primary school grammar tests I should have guessed that if Michael Gove was going to reply to one of my Guardian Letters from a Curious Parent, he wouldnt engage with what I actually wrote . Expert though he is in ...
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• New language blog: Caxton

  
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  Caxton is a new blog about language from Barrie England, an Oxford graduate who has studied English literature, foreign languages, and older varieties of English. It is named after printing pioneer William Caxton, who, as Barrie writes, “by using technology to reach a wider public . . . can be seen as the ...
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• More on self-organization

  
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  1. Wikipedia keeps updating: Wikipedia. (n.d.). Self-Organization . Online encyclopedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_systems. Accessed 5-13. 2. I read the Paul Krugman book (more on this later). 3. Got my bibliography organized and in a better spot: Language as a self-organizing system ...
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• Call Me, Dolphin? Study Shows Dolphins Call Each Other by Name

  
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  Spectrograms of dolphin vocalizations. Top row are signature whistles; in the middle, signature...
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• Secrets To Learning A Foreign Language

  
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  Hello friends.  I was recently interviewed, along with several others, about some of the keys or "secrets" to learning a foreign language.  Of course, much more was said during the course of the interview but they extracted a nice little chunk that fit the articles theme.  You can check out the interview, which is ...
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• What Is Forensic Linguistics?

  
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  Forensic linguistics, aka legal linguistics speaks toward the usage of linguistic expertise, approaches and insights to the forensic perspective of the law, language, criminal investigation, and court procedure. It is a branch of applied linguistics, which identifies, explores, and provides answers to language-related ...
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• Is “offshore of” off-putting?

  
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  Q: Several times recently I’ve come across the usage “offshore of” in copy I’m editing. It sounds dead wrong to my ears, but I’m having difficulty explaining why to my client. Can you clarify?  A: You’re right in thinking that the “of” is unnecessary in a phrase like “offshore of Cuba.” But ...
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• Sentiment Analysis in Social Media

  
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  Sentiment forces have always been at play throughout the history of mankind, shaping the course of events, both at individual levels and more persuasively at collective levels, where in many cases...
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• Ten things you might not have known about the English language

  
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  Alex Hammond writes for  ESL – Language Travel . In this guest post, he reveals a few little-known facts about the origins of the English language. Hey, English speaker! Congratulations. You speak a language that straddles the globe like nothing before. Statistically, English is unlikely to be your first language ...
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• Say, Can I Have Some of Your Purple Berries?

  
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  What you might ask your greatest uncle Eddie from Anatolia in the mother tongue as you flee the catastrophic collapse of an Ice Age ocean dam in your wooden ships 15,000 years ago. H. M. Stuart Alexandria
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• Game of Thrones, Episode 3.6, “The Climb”

  
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  Obvious episode title is obvious. North of the Wall Sam, Gilly , and her baby survived Craster’s Keep, and are a few days from The Wall, but their little fire and Sam’s hymns of the Seven Gods feel like a poor defense against the dark, cold forest and whatever’s lurking in it. Also unknown is what will ...
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• How a Non-Existent Word Got in the Dictionary

  
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  Last Friday, we have some fun looking at potential new English words, and how the English language is changing . Since then, I ran across the delightful story of the non-word ‘ dord ,’ a word you’ve probably never heard of – because it isn’t actually a word. But for eight whole years it was included in ...
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