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Screenwriting as a Second LanguageFebruary 7th, 2012
Shock: Language Spread by Specific SexFebruary 6th, 2012
Circle of Trust: Editing TranslationFebruary 3rd, 2012
Language Secrets Detected with Ultra-SoundFebruary 1st, 2012
Learn a Language, Work for Free Part 3 With New Luddite Lite™!January 30th, 2012
Rampart, starring Woody Harrelson and directed by Oren Moverman opens in major cities the weekend of February 10. Moverman, a screenwriter by trade, took a sprawling script by crime-fiction writer James Ellroy, adapting the story from the LAPD corruption scandal of the late 1990s into a vehicle for a searing performance by Woody Harrelson as [...]
Warning. Language is sexually transmitted. Or more specifically, spread by a specific sex. Cambridge researchers, Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew put language and DNA under the microscope to blow the lid of the mother tongue myth. Looks like it’s the guys, and not the girls who have the gift of gab when it comes to spreading a language. [...]
Its tough to buy a translation when you don’t speak the language. Correction. It’s easy to buy, its just tough to know what you bought. Now you can always hire someone else to check it for you, like another language service provider, or do a language managment thing for youself to tell you if its [...]
Linguists are using the latest medical equipment to save languages. By using the kind of portable ultrasound device used to monitor the health of unborn children, researchers are able to see and record the shape of people’s throats as they speak. This new field technology has allowed scientists like Amanda Miller of Ohio State to [...]
Last couple of posts I’ve been ranting at the prince of crowd-sourcing, Luis Von Ahn, and raving about his plan to replace professional translators with language students. By providing free language lessons, his new site Duolingo will lure unsuspecting second-language wannabes onto a fun and free language study site. He’ll slip paid translation into their [...]
