Stop. Using. Periods. Period. Seriously. Stop it. by Jeff Guo Have you ever watched parents try to text with their children? One hilarious type of misunderstanding goes like this: Parent: I am waiting for you in the car. Child: r u mad? Parent: I am not mad. Parent: I am telling you I am waiting.
Branger. Debression.Oexit. Zumxit. Why Did Brexit Trigger a Brexplosion of Wordplay? By John Kelly Stocks plunged. Political parties imploded. Fear flared. Europe as we know it quaked. The world freaked out last Friday after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, or “Brexit,” the now-household blend of British and exit the process is going by.
A postdoc position is available (subject to the final administrative decision by the university) in the Discourse Research Lab / Applied Computational Linguistics Group in the FSP Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam (Germany). This position involves teaching 4 hours per week (= 2 seminars) and contributing to the research goals of the Lab, which is
VocUM 2016 – Language under scrutiny: technology and corpora Call for Papers We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 3rd edition of VocUM, which will take place at the Carrefour des arts et des sciences of the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada) on November 17th and 18th, 2016. VocUM is
Let’s celebrate how language works as well as what it expresses Linguistic elements as fantastic creatures by children’s laureate Chris Riddell. ‘There is nothing intrinsically deadening of a child’s growing linguistic competence in knowing what a phoneme is,’ writes Mike Newby. Illustration: Chris Riddell Chris Riddell’s drawings of linguistic elements – graphemes, phonemes, cohesive devices