By Sara Custer. An English language school and summer centre operator has claimed a victory in a complaint about rising public transportation fees for its students while travelling around the capital. More...
16 mars 2015
16 mars 2015
Canadian language providers rally in face of tough policy
By Beckie Smith. It hasn’t been an easy year for Canadian language providers as new policies came into effect last June that abolished their rights to the study work co-op programmes, and placed more responsibility on provincial lawmakers, further fragmenting already disjointed governance of the sector. More...
15 mars 2015
Report from the EURECA Conference on Research and Creativity
By Anastasia Salter. I’ve recently returned (jetlag and all) from Egypt, where I had the opportunity to speak at the American University in Cairo’s EURECA conference, an event that offers a showcase for undergraduate research as well as events focused on the intersection of research and creativity, a topic many of us at ProfHacker are passionate about. Read more...15 mars 2015
‘History Is Happening’
By Lucy Ferriss. The first line of the third paragraph of Ben Brantley’s review of the new hit Broadway play Hamilton delighted and shocked me. Following up on a line from the play, “History is happening in Manhattan,” he writes: “’Happening’ qualifies as both an adjective and a verb in this instance.”
Wow. Just wow. More...
15 mars 2015
Mewling Quim
By Ben Yagoda. It started with an e-mail in 2012 from a Londoner named John Stewart. He was writing to me because I conduct a blog called “Not One-Off Britishisms,” which deals with British words and expressions that have gained currency in the U.S. More...
15 mars 2015
Coming and Going
By Allan Metcalf. The complexity of language mirrors the complexity of life.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the so-called deictic words, those that connect a particular situation in language directly to a situation in life. Consider this and that, for example. More...
15 mars 2015
Attending to Gender
By Anne Curzan. I’ve been doing a lot of flying recently, which has me thinking about the term flight attendant. It is undeniably clunky. And yet here it is—an odd little success story in the larger narrative of nonsexist language reform. More...
15 mars 2015
Lain, the Whom of the Verb World
By Geoffrey Pullum. The other day my Edinburgh colleague Professor D. Robert Ladd noticed an odd verb form in a subhead in The Guardian, under the arresting headline “Parisians carry on shopping as mass graves are exhumed below their feet”. More...
15 mars 2015
College IT Offices Sever Ties With Terrorist Acronym
By Steve Kolowich. College administrators across the country — in Kansas, Florida, and Massachusetts — are now fighting ISIS on their campuses.The acronym, that is.
As the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has expanded its violent takeover in the Middle East, several institutions in the United States have decided to rename a common piece of campus-technology infrastructure that is also known as "ISIS": the Integrated Student Information System. More...
15 mars 2015
Promotion du plurilinguisme: le Conseil fédéral approuve le rapport d'évaluation et les recommandations
Le rapport met en lumière l'évolution du plurilinguisme durant la période allant de 2008 à 2014 et indique les perspectives pour les années 2015 à 2019. Nicoletta Mariolini, déléguée fédérale au plurilinguisme, l'a rédigé sur la base des comptes rendus que les départements et la Chancellerie fédérale lui ont fournis sur les mesures prises et les activités réalisées dans ce domaine. Voir l'article...
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