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2 octobre 2015

A Healthful Perspective

By Anne Curzan. This past Saturday I was down in Washington, D.C., giving a seminar at the Smithsonian Associates called “Grammatical Gaffes: A Linguist Looks at Language Pet Peeves.” For two hours, almost 200 grammar enthusiasts and I romped through some of the greatest hits of grammatical peevery, such as literally to mean ‘figuratively,’ impact as a verb, could care less, between you and I (or for he and I, etc.), use of less for fewer, stranded prepositions, the existence of irregardless at all, and singular they (a topic on which I have many thoughts, as Lingua Franca readers know). More...

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2 octobre 2015

Papal Language

By Allan Metcalf. The occasion of a papal visit brings with it an opportunity to consider certain comfortable words. I use comfortable in its earlier sense, “strengthening or supporting (morally or spiritually); encouraging, inspiring, reassuring, cheering,” to which the Oxford English Dictionary archly adds, “Obs. or arch.” But then the papacy has something arch. about it, though it is certainly not obs. More...

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2 octobre 2015

A Million Missing Words: The Search Is On

By Allan Metcalf. They are the dark matter of the lexiverse — a million words of the English language not yet recorded in any dictionary.
Words like these: farecasting, deanling, domainer, hyperloop, unfuckulate, anachronym, smokescreening. More...

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2 octobre 2015

Frosh

By Lucy Ferriss. This year, for the first time, I am teaching a freshman — oops, first-year — seminar. Right there is the problem. As readers of this blog know, I like to be on top of the latest gender-neutral neologism. For many years, the term freshman has belonged to a class of designations (fireman, policeman, mailman) for which our culture has tried to find gender-neutral alternatives. More...

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2 octobre 2015

A Lesson in ‘Lessen’

By Lucy Ferriss. A few months ago we at Lingua Franca received an email from a suffering reader. His eyes are hurting and his ears are subject to a terrible sound. That sound is the verb lessen. Whatever happened to decrease? our discomfited reader would like to know. More...

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2 octobre 2015

The Great Punkin Controversy

By Ben Yagoda. Starbucks watchers were taken aback last month when the company made a surprise announcement about its standard-bearing fall beverage. More...

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2 octobre 2015

Academic Social Network Hopes to Change the Culture of Peer Review

By Jeffrey R. Young. The network is called Academia.edu, and it has grown to more than 25 million registered participants, who use it mainly to post their published papers in order to help others find them (and, it’s hoped, cite them). More...

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2 octobre 2015

What the Results of a Survey of Coursera Students Mean for Online Learning

By Ellen Wexler. When Coursera, Udacity, and edX started up within four months of one another, in 2012, The New York Times declared it the year of the MOOC. Now that the clamor is dying down, researchers are gauging what actually has developed in terms of massive open online courses. More...

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2 octobre 2015

5 Tips for Handling Grading in Large Online Classes

By Anastasia Salter. I’ve been chronicling my experiences this semester adapting my approach to teaching from my previous experience with small courses to a new challenge of large-scale classes, and particularly to the needs of a large online course. Read more...

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2 octobre 2015

3 Tips for Handling Discussions in Online Courses

By Anastasia Salter. I’ve been teaching a large online class for the first time this semester, and as the course involves looking at a number of challenge interactive works and games I put a lot of emphasis on discussion forums and critical debate. Read more...

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