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...Ibero-American world, problems of syntax too often translate into human rights violations, accompanied by aristocracy or autocracy. But rather than more semantics professors, these countries need leaders willing to sacrifice their ambition by supporting the democratic outcomes even when they lose...
...unifying trait of these Latin American Macbeths is that they disregard democratic continuity; nothing transcends them. This is even represented in the syntax used every time a new regime or military junta is called in. The PRI party’s name in Mexico, which “won” elections uninterruptedly for almost a century, stands for “Institutional Revolution Party.” In Argentina, the last military junta instituted a permanent “Process of National Reorganization,” which gave painful birth to thousands of “desaparecidos...
...very different than the way we think people talk. When you're watching a TV show like Friends, the dialogue from the script is nothing like the way people actually talk to one another - random and full of non-sequiturs. OHinNY tries to capture authentic speech, diction and syntax, making it a fun, living record of how people talk. Imagine if OHinNY existed in 1906... The blog is an interesting contribution to an archive of what life is like today, as well as a re-creation of what it's like to walk down the street in New York. There...
...language students by gutting study abroad. I remember an Arabic course taught by Harvard’s William Granara as one of the best I ever took, but surely Adomanis recognizes the incomparable advantage of studying modern languages in their natural context. Immersed students not only acquire vocabulary and syntax more rapidly, they spark human curiosity, exchange, and understanding with people previously ignored, and that is precisely the purpose of education. Study abroad can be improved by more integration with host schools, home-stays, and increased funding. Such expansion and improvement, not the degradation of international education, is precisely what...
...makes them entirely relatable to the college audience; Jane and Elizabeth’s bedtime talk about Jane’s coy flirtation with Mr. Bingley is exactly of the same tone as the conversations my roommate and I share from top and bottom bunk, albeit with slightly different syntax. Anyone who missed the reading for Reid Professor of English and American Literature Phillip J. Fisher’s English 157, “The Classic Phase of the Novel,” can skip the SparkNotes and use this film as a reliable source. In his gorgeous tableau, Wright...