The vague “improper parking” - Not easily accessible to read or understand, but readily applied to whatever unsuspecting visitor to the general Wayne State Campus area. They love to prey on visitors & residents in one of the only thriving business districts in the city. See my letter to this department, below: - – -… [Read more…]
November 24, 2009
Chantale Marentette, a linguistics student from Toronto, is doing a study on cross-border speech and language patterns in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Torontonians/Torontoans are also included in the study. The following survey was developed by Prof. Jack Chambers from the University of Toronto. It’s entitled “Dialect Topography”. If you are from any of these metro… [Read more…]
October 12, 2009
Looking through materials this morning regarding language use in Mozambique, I was led to a series of websites ranging from the Organization of Portuguese Language Countries, the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa, UNESCO, and now to an interactive map of endangered languages. (other wanderings can be found on my delicious page) I’m very passionate… [Read more…]
December 21, 2009
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