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...Real Academia Española (RAE)—the Spanish institution that publishes the “official” Spanish dictionary—refuses to recognize words that “rupture the linguistic system in its totality” or “endanger the language??s unity ,” i.e. American-isms. In 2002, Japan appointed a “Council on Japanese Language?? to advise the government and media as to what foreign terms should be admitted into the language. The members of such institutions as these seek to protect...
...cannot learn a city or even try to understand a place—much less a language??in five weeks. It took me over two months to fully grasp the public transportation system in Buenos Aires. Even after five months, I still found myself susceptible to the city’s secrets and idiosyncrasies—secrets that do not reveal themselves in the intensive language classes and all-day curriculum of Harvard Summer School programs. The notion that one can experience a city and a culture in five whirlwind weeks of language classes...
...next hour-and-a-half writing my stories. While waiting on line at a cheesesteak truck, the time changed from 2 to 3. I dripped Cheez Whiz all over my sneakers, shared a cab ride with three girls intent on making “sexual” the English language??s most-used adjective, and proceeded on to the airport for a 6 a.m. flight. Next thing I know I’m being shaken awake by a beautiful stewardess named Michlain (yeah, I asked for the spelling...
Professors across the disciplines use their published works as required articles or textbooks for their courses, but not all believe in making their brainchild a course requirement. Social Analysis 34, “Knowledge of Language?? Professor Cedric Boeckx said, “I feel uneasy about asking my students to buy my own text for class...
...shame should spring from a different source. In an e-mail to the Lowell open list sent less than two hours after the pest survey itself, Eric B. Linsker ’07 urged his fellow residents to withhold their feedback. The “genocidal language?? of the survey—specifically the decision to refer to cockroaches as “pests”—led readers “to forget that American cockroaches and house mice are, like us, animals,” he wrote. But Alpert, the entomology officer...