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This Documenting Life
Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:31 AM EDT
Modern life would be hard to imagine without documents. How could we prove who we are? We do this via identification of the ‘official’ kind. Driver’s licenses, passports, bank statements – all of these documents are proof that we are who we are.
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For Those Who've Arrived, and Are Still Arriving
Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:09 AM EDT
A lone man sets out on a journey to a foreign land. In his suitcase is the portrait of his wife and daughter – his only link to home. Huddled on a crowded ship, he sails into a strange harbour.
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Plate it up for Aussie Word of the Year
Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:27 AM EST
If our words are any reflection of our society, Australia has been pretty greedy for a while now.
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The More Things Change, the More Conversations Stay the Same
Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:13 AM EST
You can tell a lot about our relationships with people through the different conversations we have with them. There are those who we seem to pass only tidbits of information, like the good weather we've been having or a brief synopsis of what we did on the weekend.
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Sound Sensations: My Week as a Deaf Person
Sun May 3, 2009 9:45 AM EDT
Last week life decided to give me a practical lesson in communication. After swimming regularly at the pool, one afternoon my ears blocked up. I couldn't hear a thing and spent the next couple of days understanding first-hand what it was like to be deaf.
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On Saving and Losing Aboriginal Languages: an Interview with an Outback Linguist
Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:29 AM EDT
Documenting languages can be a race against time in Australia, where many Aboriginal languages are on the verge of extinction.
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How Many Moves Does it Take to Email a Professor?
Thu Sep 4, 2008 6:21 AM EDT
Why is it that a university teacher can fire away minimalist email responses while their students spend day and night composing those perfect lines? The comic to the right hits the spot.
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What Do You Linguists Do Anyway?
Wed Jul 9, 2008 6:11 AM EDT
How many languages do you speak? Do you know all the eskimo words for snow? Are you going to correct my grammar? These are a couple of common questions I get when I say to other people "I think I want to be a linguist..."
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Downer's French-in-Mouth Syndrome
Sun Nov 18, 2007 7:34 PM EST
Poor Alexander Downer has put his French in it. Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister could hold off no longer from pesky journalists asking him about his linguistic abilities and finally conceded at the National Press Club during a debate with Labor's Robert McClelland.
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Not So Wild About the Cursive: The Secret Life of Chinese Calligraphy
Wed Jun 6, 2007 11:46 PM EDT
Taiwan's contemporary cultural force, the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, showed us the secret life of ink in their homage to Chinese calligraphy at the Sydney Opera House.
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Language Devils in the Making
Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:04 PM EDT
So the Venezuelan President has called the American President a "devil"...called, said, referred to, labelled - whatever you want to call it, it came out of his mouth at the UN and it definitely rolled off his tongue in full flair. Mr. Chavez is certainly a performer.
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Miss Linguistics is a Sydney-based applied linguist interested in all aspects of communication in society. She has worked in government and social ser …
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