MiloMax LLC Retains TransMedia Group to Promote Interactive Family Educational...PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance: 0 views since Monday, October 13, 2008 at 05:34 AMFor the grandparents living away from their grandchildren who want to be a part of their early learning development and daily lives, MiloMax LLC launched GrandparentGames.com and has retained TransMedia Group to promote this interactive family educational site.
They That Were Lost ...New York Times: 1 views since Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 01:07 AMThe author?s father has devoted his life to preserving the vanished culture of the community where he grew up.
Ugly appeals to famed Italian author ...Mississauga News: 1 views since Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 08:23 AMFamed Italian author, philosopher and professor Umberto Eco says beauty is boring and he'll take ugly every time. At least, that's what he told a packed house last night at the University of Toronto Mississauga. "Ugliness is unpredictable and it offers us an infinite amount of possibilities," the author said.
Local News & Events ...The Salinas Californian: 1 views since Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 08:15 AMThe Monterey Institute of International Studies' Graduate School of Language and Educational Linguistics is sponsoring a half-day workshop for teachers from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, on "Creative Voices in the Classroom."
Chinese creeps in on Korean language birthday ...Reuters via Yahoo! News: 1 views since Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 03:27 AMAs South Korea celebrated on Thursday the birth of its writing system, one of the country's leading school districts said it thinks its students should spend more time learning Chinese characters.
Calif. students decipher rare Congo language ...Detroit News: 1 views since Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 01:17 AMSAN FRANCISCO -- Nzadi is one of the most obscure tongues in the world. That's exactly why a University of California, Berkeley class has embraced it.
Upcoming Lecture On Norms For Pronunciation Of English ...BruDirect.com: 1 views since Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 09:14 PMBandar Seri Begawan - UBD will organise a public lecture on "Norms for the Pronunciation of English in Singapore and Brunei" by Associate Professor Dr David Deterding, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Helen Mirren leads the cast of Taymor's Tempest ...Guardian Unlimited: 0 views since Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 10:18 AMJulie Taymor has changed the gender of the central character to accommodate the British actress in her latest Shakespeare adaptation
Semantra 2.5 Strengthens Conversational Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics CRM ...Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance: 0 views since Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 10:00 AMDALLAS----Semantra, the leading developer of conversational analytics software that breaks the barrier between users and business-critical enterprise data, today announced general availability of Semantra 2.5 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Sage buys communications and linguistics journals ...vnunet.com: 0 views since Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 07:07 AMKim Thomas, Academic publisher Sage has acquired Language and Speech, and International Journal of Bilingualism, two journals previously published by Kingston Press....
Basis Technology Powers Mark Logic Entity Enrichment ...Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance: 1 views since Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 12:54 PMCAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Basis Technology Corp. announced today that Mark Logic has licensed its Rosette Entity Extractor for thirteen languages to enrich the XML of a document by locating concepts that cannot easily be found through simple keyword matching.
Students decipher obscure language ...The Nashua Telegraph: 2 views since Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 07:28 AMNzadi is one of the most obscure tongues in the world. That's exactly why a University of California, Berkeley class has embraced it. ... - By PATRICIA YOLLIN San Francisco Chronicle
t2go 4 English? ...Mail and Guardian: 2 views since Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 01:03 AMIt's not often a linguistics book gets a review in Take a Break magazine, "the world's number one true-life weekly". But you should never underestimate the power of a moral panic.
Texting destroying the English language ...The Western Courier: 2 views since Monday, October 6, 2008 at 11:54 AMEvery language goes through changes, and looking back at the English language, we've come a long way from formal Shakespearean English to the language we speak today. What is in the future for our linguistics though? Given its popularity, SMS language seems to be the next big step in the way we communicate.
Setting a new course ...Lancaster Online: 3 views since Monday, October 6, 2008 at 12:31 AMWhen Mia Tabib was in high school, some of her classmates referred to her as "the wacky Persian," and one teacher even called her a terrorist.But Tabib, a freshman at Franklin & Marshall College who is half Iranian, is confident that remarks like these will fade if people educate themselves about th...
UC linguistics students get lesson of lifetime ...San Francisco Chronicle: 1 views since Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 09:34 PMNzadi is one of the most obscure tongues in the world. That's exactly why a UC Berkeley class has embraced it. "There's nothing like the joy of discovering a language from scratch," said Cal linguistics Professor Larry Hyman. The 10 students in his course,...