Articles Tagged with foreign language

Talking like a sailor

You already do!

We present a challenge on language leaks.

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Spoken or written

Proper language

The two aspects sometimes sit uneasily together.

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Imperfect texts

Scholarship

How do you approach documents that you know are wrong?

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Unimportant history

Obscure biography

A book about someone we’d never heard of turns out to be unexpectedly interesting.

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Octopus arithmetic

How different could it get?

We ponder how to communicate with aliens.

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Responsibility

The passive voice

Sometimes it’s hard to work out who is responsible.  It’s only going to get harder.

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Microclimates

Weather and learning

If you look closely, there is enormous diversity.  This can be a problem.

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Prepositions and infinitives

A difficult translation

English is a very unusual language.

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The Aspirational Bookcase

Good intentions

It can take time to get around to things.

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Difficult meters

On poetry

Can anyone write a poem?

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