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Language

Craft Twitter messages

Jakob Neilson found that carefully crafting his Twitter messages brought more benefits.

Read the full article ⍾ Language 28 August 2009 1 comment

Lower case, Upper case, CamelCase

One of my regular reads is William Z. Shetter’s Language Miniatures. Once or twice a month he publishes a brief essay about language. This time it’s about CamelCase, the practice of using capital letters in the middle of compound words. The paragraph which intrigued me most though was the addendum: Incidentally, why do we call [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Language 3 February 2006 0 comments

The English Language in NZ

A long time ago I did a little linguistics at Canterbury University, and as I recall Elizabeth Gordon was one of our lecturers, and a very good one too. So it was a great pleasure to listen to the first of several of her 2005 Macmillan Brown Lectures — Finding Our Own Voice: the English [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Language 23 November 2005 0 comments

Learn Russian via podcast

Another language find via Adam Curry’s PodFinder was A spoonful of Russian. The creator, Natalia Worthington, started this one up from her home in New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina My desire is to create love for the Russian language in my listeners and motivate them to learn more! Back in about 1982 I had [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Language 6 October 2005 2 comments

ChinesePod.com

Adam Curry’s PodFinder (search the iTunes Podcasts for it) is useful for discovering interesting podcasts. My latest find fits in with my longstanding interest in languages. What else can you expect from someone who gained a degree in German, even if it was 30 years ago, and then went on to teach it for ten [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Language 6 October 2005 0 comments