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Dotcom vs traditional Universities?
The Economist 20/7/2013 An army of new online courses is scaring the wits out of traditional universities.
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My two volumes in Springer in E-book now. Special discount
buy my volumes i Springer with E-book special discount now Romero-Trillo (2012) Pragmatics and Prosody in ELT. Romero-Trillo (2013) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 50% off eBooks in Philosophy, Education & Language The Special Promotion starts today and ends on July 23 Get your discount in The Springer Shop and benefit from unique advantages: […]
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Children’s intellectual development Bedtime stories Regular sleeping hours really are good for children—if they are girls The economist Jul 13th 2013
IN THAT mythical era when children were seen and not heard, and did as they were told without argument, everyone knew that regular bedtimes were important. “Dream on!” most modern parents might reply.
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The war of the words How Republicans and Democrats use language. The Economist 12/7/3013
“POLITICAL language”, wrote George Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy. NYT 15/7/2013 By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
There are many dying languages in the world. But at least one has recently been born, created by children living in a remote village in northern Australia.
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Language borrowing Why so little Chinese in English? The Economist Jun 6th 2013, by R.L.G.
How to kowtow ON TWITTER, a friend asked “Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance in English?”