Posted on December 29, 2011 by ATIF Florida
The top language stories of 2011, The Web of Language.
…And we welcomed the fifth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, which, its publishers warn us, may be “the last print dictionary,” though critics objected when the AHD relabeled the offensive term anchor baby as ‘offensive.’
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A very, very interesting piece. – Gio
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Posted on December 29, 2011 by ATIF Florida
Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners.
“The changing linguistic world needs polyglots! We need to know what makes them tick so we can find out how to reproduce or mimic what they are able to do. We also need to get a grasp on our own fascinations (and suspicions) of massive multilingualism.” Michael Erard.
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