Jesús Romero-Trillo

Month: January 2014

  • Avoiding the abyss

    DAVID BUCKLAND, the founder of Cape Farewell, hopes to persuade the public to engage with the issue of climate change by using the language of art rather than science from Prospero http://ift.tt/1beu2Xp via IFTTT

  • New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin

    New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://ift.tt/1kljI2k

  • No English word for it? Make up your own, like Shakespeare. Or steal one | Mind your language

    If you want a single word that describes wandering around the house wearing a shirt and no trousers, ask a Hungarian Endlessly encyclopaedic as it seems, there are times our beloved English language fails us. Ironically, there are various terms for wordiness: loquacious, garrulous, verbose, voluble, prolix. But when we want our language to be…

  • Johnson: What might have been

    THE English poet William Barnes (pictured) is no household name. But that is almost a shame, because he represented a strand that we don’t otherwise see much of: English purism. Imagining what would have happened if he had been more influential makes for an interesting thought experiment. Any language in contact with other languages borrows…

  • Can You Spell That, Please?

    Always double-check the spelling of names, our most common source of errors. And let’s triple-check names with multiple popular versions — like “Katherine,” “Katharine,” Catherine,” “Cathryn” and “Kathryn.” After Deadline http://ift.tt/L6nTSQ

  • Twitter journal: would you share your original research on social media?

    Will the launch of the first Twitter-only journal, publishing original peer-reviewed research direct to the reader, take off? Last week, I received a tweet from @janremm who was midway through a conversation – on Twitter – about how to cite tweets within academic research. She was talking with @jotaigna, who asked in what way a…