November 21, 2007
The Rosetta spacecraft is on a 10+ year mission to meet Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Onboard is a copy of the Rosetta disk — a beautiful object containing texts in and about more than 2500 languages.
The spacecraft recently flew by our planet, which gave us one “last chance to wave goodbye to the Rosetta disk.”
May 8, 2007
Hi folks!
In the past few days I’ve received a couple of emails about getting/giving help for publishing in English: one message was from an international journal, they’re drawing up a list of linguists who’d be willing to help non-native speakers of English in the final stages of preparation of their manuscripts before publication; another message was sent to me as a potential client: it came from a company that’s specialised in helping authors preparing their manuscripts, improving the clarity, the language and the format before submission to scientific journals. (more…)
March 13, 2007
“Ali: What is the vibe with drugs in Ireland? It might be stereotyping or whatever man
but I is heard that the Irish is always up for the crack.
Sue: No, no. Crack in Ireland means having a good time .
Ali: A’ight, for real but crack is a bad drug there is a high but also a low.”
(you can check out the video by clicking here)
When I decided to use an Ali G quote as an epigraph to my ‘Introduction to sociolinguistics’ (this article is a contribution to a new ENS-based website called ‘La clé des langues‘ (‘The gate to languages’), which aims at providing high school teachers with new and innovative material – ), I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into. (more…)
March 4, 2007
On the 13th March at 13h30, at the ENS-LSH in Lyon, Parvis René Descartes (Métro Debourg), Alexis Michaud will be talking about tonal languages for the second Conf’Expresso*(Expresso Talk) of the semester . He will provide us with basic notions of tonal typology and then move on to a case study – namely an analysis of Naxi language – (a Burmese-Tibetan language spoken in China). (more…)
