Linguisticator's Blog
Regueifa: Improvised song in Galicia
In Galicia regueifa is a form of popular improvised poetry. The Vigo Tourism board define it as 'improvised sung dialogue, full of rhyme, rivalry, irony and most of all, humour'...
Regueifa: Improvised song in Galicia
In Galicia regueifa is a form of popular improvised poetry. The Vigo Tourism board define it as 'improvised sung dialogue, full of rhyme, rivalry, irony and most of all, humour'...
Translating children's literature
In January 2018 Avery Fischer Udagawa wrote a blog post in which she described how happy she was to see a translated children's book feature on the shortlist for the...
Translating children's literature
In January 2018 Avery Fischer Udagawa wrote a blog post in which she described how happy she was to see a translated children's book feature on the shortlist for the...
Units of time: From the flick to the jiffy
On 22nd January 2018 Facebook announced that they were launching Flicks, a flick being 'a unit of time, slightly larger than a nanosecond that exactly subdivides media frame rates and...
Units of time: From the flick to the jiffy
On 22nd January 2018 Facebook announced that they were launching Flicks, a flick being 'a unit of time, slightly larger than a nanosecond that exactly subdivides media frame rates and...
Promoting the use of Luxembourgish
Last year Luxembourg's government released a 40-point action plan to cement the renewed popularity of the Luxembourgish language. According to figures from Luxembourg's National Institute of Languages, quoted in The...
Promoting the use of Luxembourgish
Last year Luxembourg's government released a 40-point action plan to cement the renewed popularity of the Luxembourgish language. According to figures from Luxembourg's National Institute of Languages, quoted in The...
UNESCO Accept Endangered Whistled Language From...
On the 6th December 2017 the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage voted in favour of inscribing an endangered whistled language from Turkey on the List...
UNESCO Accept Endangered Whistled Language From...
On the 6th December 2017 the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage voted in favour of inscribing an endangered whistled language from Turkey on the List...
Merry Christmas! 2017 In Review, and What's Ahead
Another year is winding to a close, and this gives us time to reflect and be thankful for all that has happened in the last 12 months. 2017 has been...
Merry Christmas! 2017 In Review, and What's Ahead
Another year is winding to a close, and this gives us time to reflect and be thankful for all that has happened in the last 12 months. 2017 has been...