What’s happening with signed language in Argentina? How are terms for gender changing in the Spanish language? And are Zoomers making work language more casual?
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When is Hispanic Heritage Month?
https://latino.si.edu/hispanic-heritage-month
Spain Allows the Use of Basque, Catalan, and Galician in Congressional Sessions
https://slator.com/spain-allows-the-use-of-basque-catalan-and-galician-in-congressional-sessions/
Portuguese sounds like Slavic
https://www.dutchtrans.co.uk/why-portuguese-sounds-like-slavic/
Piden a la RAE suprimir la acepción de judío como “persona avariciosa o usurera”
https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/piden-a-la-rae-suprimir-la-acepcion-de-judio-como-persona-avariciosa-o-usurera/
They ask the RAE to eliminate the meaning of a Jew as a “greedy or usurer person” [Google Translate]
https://www-eluniversal-com-mx.translate.goog/mundo/piden-a-la-rae-suprimir-la-acepcion-de-judio-como-persona-avariciosa-o-usurera/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dos claves para comprender la importancia de la Ley de Lengua de Señas Argentina
https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202305/627330-opinion-lenguaje-senas.html
Two keys to understand the importance of the Argentine Sign Language Law [Google Translate]
https://www-telam-com-ar.translate.goog/notas/202305/627330-opinion-lenguaje-senas.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Deaf Children of Hearing Parents Have Age-Level Vocabulary Growth When Exposed to ASL by Six-Months – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022347621000366
Spanish Genders Fluctuate in Argentina
https://www.languagemagazine.com/2023/09/19/spanish-genders-fluctuate-in-argentina/
Pashto Pronouns
https://mylanguages.org/pashto_pronouns.php
Asylum applications denied due to AI translation | The World
https://theworld.org/media/2023-09-21/asylum-applications-denied-due-ai-translation
AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-translation-errors-afghan-refugees-asylum/
New policies for changing names, pronouns around the world
https://theworld.org/media/2023-09-20/new-policies-changing-names-pronouns-around-world
Language at work is becoming more casual — thanks to Gen Z
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/14/language-at-work-is-becoming-more-casual-thanks-to-gen-z.html
‘Lazy girl jobs’ are trending in rally against burnout culture
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/lazy-girl-jobs-burnout-culture-rcna97367
‘Hypertourism’ The New Buzzword in Travel
https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/09/16/hypertourism-the-new-buzzword-in-travel/
Santorini Instagram v reality
https://www.tiktok.com/@justi_travel/video/7256120314969558278
Cherry blossoms in Japan
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/87azbj/cherry_blossoms_in_japan/
Grass slides in Hulunbuir Prairie, Inner Mongolia
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/16fquky/grass_slides_in_hulunbuir_prairie_inner_mongolia/
Jamais Vu: When the Familiar Turns Eerily New – Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/jamais-vu-neuroscience-23969/
Deja Vu: What It Is and Why It Happens
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/deja-vu-what-it-is-and-when-it-may-be-cause-for-concern/
What Causes Déjà Vu?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-the-feeling-of-deja-vu/
Ig Nobel Prizes honor zombie spiders, rock-licking scientists, and a clever commode
https://www.science.org/content/article/ig-nobel-prizes-honor-zombie-spiders-rock-licking-scientists-and-clever-commode
Semantic Satiation: Why Words Sometimes Sound Weird or Lose All Meaning
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71855/why-does-word-sometimes-lose-all-meaning
centipede effect | Oxford Reference
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095558435
Have you heard about the ‘whom of which’ trend?
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-heard-trend.html
Evile, K. & Pesetsky, D., (2023) “Wh-which relatives and the existence of pied-piping”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1).
https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/9943/
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