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Archives for Mother Tongues

Translation, Please

January 26, 2010

As I write in my latest feature for the Chronicle (UPDATE: the link is now free), translation is “having a moment, or a series of moments.” It was the presidential theme of the Modern Language Association’s most recent convention. Two university-affiliated publishing ventures, Dalkey Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Open Letter… Continue reading »

Endangered (Linguistic) Species

February 19, 2009

UNESCO has unveiled an interactive online version of the new edition of the Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger: Manx, Aasax, Ubykh, Eyak: Once spoken in, respectively, the Isle of Man, Tanzania, Turkey, and Alaska, all four languages have died out in the last 35 years. Of the 6,000 or so languages still heard… Continue reading »

Omnivorous English

September 19, 2008

The Economist reviews Henry Hitchings’s The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English: …a book which is really about the way the English language has roamed the world helping itself liberally to words, absorbing them, forgetting where they came from, and moving on with an ever-growing load of exotics, crossbreeds and subtly shaded near-synonyms…. Continue reading »

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  • “A paler shade of white”: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss (review)
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