Keith Chen (TED Talk: Could your language affect your ability to save money?) might be an economist, but he wants to talk about language. For instance, he points out, in Chinese, saying “this is my uncle” is not as straightforward as you might think. In Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the side the uncle is on, whether he’s related by marriage or birth and, if it’s your father’s brother, whether he’s older or younger.....

http://ideas.ted.com/2013/02/19/5-examples-of-how-the-languages-we-speak-can-affect-the-way-we-think/

Did you know that the word spelled p-r-i-m-e-r, meaning an introductory book or treatise, is properly pronounced PRIM-ur, with a short i as in print? The word is often mispronounced PRY-mur, with a long i as in prime, but that’s the proper pronunciation for the word that’s spelled the same way but means an undercoat of paint.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/samedelson/17-words-you-are-mispronouncing-1696k

hat ihre Genderprobleme...

Are gender-neutral pronouns the wave of the future?

http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/are-gender-neutral-pronouns-the-wave-of-the-future/

Dear Cult of Pedagogy,

Last week, my son brought home a stack of papers from his first-grade class. Some of them had obvious spelling errors, but no one had marked them wrong. Later that same day, I was helping my 10-year-old daughter with a research paper. I noticed a few misspellings on her draft, but when I pointed them out, she said, “My teacher told us not to worry about spelling when we’re drafting.”

What’s the deal? Why don’t teachers seem to care about spelling anymore?

http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/spelling-mistakes/


Gibt es eigentlich sonst niemanden, der interessante Text posten mag? Liest hier eigentlich jemand ab und zu?

für einen Chauffeur:

https://theroyalhousehold.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-2/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/4/opp/823-Chauffeur/en-GB

Warum nicht auch mal solch einen Text im Unterricht lesen?

The typical American consumes more than 100,000 words a day, and remembers none of them. When everybody’s reading, but nobody’s smarter, what value has the word?


http://tinyurl.com/nobp9e4

How a two-and-a-half block walk threatens to tear a family apart

http://tinyurl.com/qxvhl4b

Everything You Need to Know About Gender-Neutral Pronouns


http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gender-neutral-pronouns/?lf&utm_campaign=LBGTMonth_15&utm_source=Facebook_org&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_post

Move over Shakespeare, teen girls are the real language
disruptors

http://qz.com/474671/move-over-shakespeare-teen-girls-are-the-real-language-disruptors/

Barbara Ehrenreich is an American feminist, democratic
socialist, and political activist who describes herself as "a
myth buster by trade". She is a widely-read and award-winning
columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. In 2006, she
founded United Professionals, an organization described as "a
nonprofit, non-partisan membership organization for white-
collar workers. Her last published book is "Smile Or Die: How
Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World", and during her
talk she shared her views on the topic.


http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Smile-or-die-Barbara-Ehrenreich

Worth listening!