Linguistics
Preschool children learning about letters and words through play.
Sorry, there's no such thing as 'correct grammar' | Michael Rosen | Comment is free
In a memo addressed to state administrators across , Prime Minister François Fillon ordered the honorific — akin to “damsel” and the equivalent of “miss” — banished from official forms and registries.
France Drops ‘Mademoiselle’ From Official Use
Once, people looking at porn on their computer kept a quickly clickable screen image on hand -- say, a letter to their mother -- should someone enter the room.
For our obsessions, ‘porn’ fills in the blank
SpecGram >> Early Edition >> Linguistic Poems for Valentine’s Day 2012 From the SpecGram Podcast For your amusement as Valentine’s Day approaches, we present a collection of recordings of various poems that have appeared in SpecGram and our sister publications over the years, all read by Editor-in-Love Jonathan van der Meer.
Linguistic Poems for Valentine’s Day 2012
1 February 2012 Last updated at 04:29 GMT By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News
Science decodes 'internal voices'
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation.
English Pronunciation
λ♥[love] (Linguistics Love Song) « Sentence first
λ♥[love] is written and sung by Christine Collins , a writer and self-described time traveller [ Doctor Who fan] from the U.S. She describes it as “a convenient, terminology-dropping, non-gender-specific love song for all your linguist-seducing needs”.
Foreign languages: The gift of tongues
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners.
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Sea kittens talk to each other through squeaks, squeals, and other low-frequency sounds that humans can only hear through special instruments.
