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TESOL Grad Student

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Air puffs we make with t&p help listeners hear with their skin. When coupled with air puffs, listeners heard 'puffless' sounds b&d as t&p.

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Is this sentence possible? “The house I had had had had a swimming pool.” Yes, if I once had the house and the house once had a pool.

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Sink or swim? A study found many LA English language learners entering mainstream classes become better students than English only speakers.

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10-codes used for emergency communication may soon be 10-7 (out of service). Agencies cite confusion caused by using different code sets.

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Deaf/blind at 2 Hellen Keller did not acquire language until 7. She earned a BA from Radcliffe at 24. A statue in US capitol now honors her.

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US Sec/State condemned indiscriminate killing/raping in Guinea. So would she condone it if perpetrators discriminated who they kill or rape?

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Answer: 97%. Question: What percent of Ohio elementary students don't study a 2nd language? What percent of Asian & European students do?

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Happy b-day jazz sax man and lexist Les Young who played cool licks, named Lady Day, had eyes for the does, and spent rather than ate bread.

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London ATM: Please enter your Huckleberry Finn and wait while we read your bladder of lard. Your sausage and mash will be dispensed shortly.

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Flight attendant: Ma'am I need you to just turn off your book. We are getting ready to land.

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Computer analysis of ancient Indus script suggests it has grammatical structure but some linguists think the symbols are just cute pictures.

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Imagine a language where the only counting words are few, some, or many. This dispells the notion that numbers are basic to human cognition.

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Securitization: doublespeak for financial alchemy, which turns gold into lead and transfers the risk to those who cant be held accountable.

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The dialect of politics is doublespeak and with the right words can justify anything from adultery to xenophobia. Translation is impossible.

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The car with a license tag 'fluent' makes me wonder, what language?

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Congressional watchdog GAO now tweets notices of its products to followers and posts videos on YouTube. Welcome to the 21st century GAO!

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A different kind of dentures that track tongue movement aids research on robotic speech and braces and could also revolutionize linguistics.