London Language

Boxing Day leftover

separated by a common language: Boxing Day leftovers: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2006/12/boxing-day-leftovers.html

Billy

another scifi movie language

Here's the latest invented scifi movie language:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8408245.stm

B-)

A visual people and a visual language

Bencie Woll (Director of DCAL, Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre) gave a talk recently about British Sign Language (BSL) and some of the research taking place at DCAL - worth watching!

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/lhlpub_autumn2009/11_241109

UK Linguistics Olympiad update

UK Linguistics Olympiad - latest news

37 schools have registered for the UK Linguistics Olympiad in 2010, which is great news, although slightly worrying when we think about the marking. Most of the students planning to take part are  working on AS or A levels, but some are as young as 12.

Billy

Word of Mouth on iplayer

Word of Mouth - creoles, translation, Ebonics, dubbing, etc. etc.

Michael Rosen discussing lots of interesting linguistic topics with lots of linguistics, including Salikoko Mufwene, Jorge Diaz-Cintas, Paul Kerswill, Clive Upton, and John Baugh.

Available until 15 December.

Billy