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Kevin Hirschi, the English Language Fellow in Tbilisi, Georgia, was invited to deliver a keynote speech at the 9th International Research Conference on American Studies at International Black Sea University. Fellow Kevin Hirschi presented on his
corpus linguistics study on negative language in newspaper editorials on Donald Trump, introducing the audience to the relevance of linguistic findings in the interdisciplinary sphere of American Studies.
People at this gas station don't have problems with languages, if they don't know the word in English, they combine many languages to improve their service. In Croatian, "Plin" is word for gas (not gasoline)...
The Chinatown Library is adding a new collection of more than 500 books in the Chinese Language.
An informal reception was held on February 11, 1970 from 1-3 pm.
An English language version of a British Army leaflet, an Arabic version of which is given to motorists on a main approach road to the southern Iraq city of Basra, tells residents that they will not be abandoned April 4, 2003. Coalition forces battling to win over the residents of Iraq's second biggest city are running into an obstacle more difficult than most of the military defences they have faced -- the language barrier. REUTERS/Chris Helgren REUTERS
Acrylic on canvas board
Tales from the Water Heater (art inspired by poetry magnets)
Ace Studios (Seattle)
September 2003
UW-Madison’s Language Institute hosted World Languages Day on November 14, 2013 at Union South. This exciting, college-for-a-day experience introduces more than 600 Wisconsin high school students and their teachers to many of the world languages and cultural topics offered at UW-Madison. The event, which features faculty, students and staff, aims to inspire students to pursue a second or third language regardless of their educational and career goals.
Photos by Kerry G. Hill/UW-Madison Division of International Studies
The great Manx speaker and language activist, Charles Craine, who was of great importance to the continuation and revival of Manx Gaelic in the second half of the twentieth century.
This picture was taken by David Fisher in the 1970s.
It is uploaded here with his permission.
Gura mie ayd!
More information about Manx is available here:
Culture Vannin exists to promote and support all aspects of culture in the Isle of Man.
Students from Baku Oxford School (BOS) and Baku European Lyceum (BEL) gain an increased appreciation of the English language through activities that help them learn about famous English writers and poets. (Photo Credit: UNO Baku, 23 April 2010)
PHOTO by Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven L. Shepard.
Center for Information Dominance Detachment Monterey (CIDDM) holds a Change of Charge Ceremony at the Price Fitness Center, Presidio of Monterey on Jan. 14. The CIDDM Officer in Charge (OIC) responsibilities are passed from Lt. Cmdr. Leonard Caver to Lt. Cmdr. Thor Martinsen, who becomes the 16th OIC in CIDDM's 34 year history at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
Inspiration & Co talk no. 3 with Gary of the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics.
Film: 23 Secundos (2013) Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Director: Dimitri Rudakov Producer: Francisco Bello Writer: Dimitri Rudakov Screenplay: Dimitry Rudakov Cast: Hugo Piccinini, Susana Groisman, Stefanie Neukirch Music: Matías Banacore Cinematography: Diego Pevese Editor: N/A Production Design: N/A Costume: N/A Production: Clever Producciones Distributor: N/A Description: Emiliano is a 33 years old mentally retarded guy who to make a living and pass time washes windows of cars. He lives with his mother and has all natural desires of a grown up man. One day while washing the windscreen of a car he observes a murder and his life changes. Emiliano though mentally retarded this murder affects him significantly and he starts taking various actions to do his bit in the society regarding this grave injustice to the victim. His actions though he feels are heroic in nature, might seem insignificant to a causal observer. It’s his story. ift.tt/2wJYnRu
UNICODE 5.1.0 meets Or-Omcode∞.1.0
Unicode represents the Tower ob Babel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel In computing, Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in tandem with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 100,000 characters, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data computer files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic or Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniCode
Or-Omcode∞.1.0 represents a new Universal Language de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalsprache derived within the Doctine Of Essense by
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Christian_Friedrich_Krause
Encoding Unicode into the Or-Omcode∞.1.0 all traditional languages become semantically transformed within the new universal language parameters. portal.or-om.org/art/UnicodemeetsOrOmCode/tabid/6319/Defa...
UW-Madison’s Language Institute hosted World Languages Day on November 14, 2013 at Union South. This exciting, college-for-a-day experience introduces more than 600 Wisconsin high school students and their teachers to many of the world languages and cultural topics offered at UW-Madison. The event, which features faculty, students and staff, aims to inspire students to pursue a second or third language regardless of their educational and career goals.
Photos by Kerry G. Hill/UW-Madison Division of International Studies
Routes into Languages
Spelling Bee competition final round
National Library of Wales Aberystwyth
June 19 2014
Urmia or (Turkish Language: اورمو, Urmu, Orumiyeh, Urmiye, Urmiya) is a city in Northwestern South Azerbaijan (Iranian Azerbaijan) and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province. The city lies on an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chaye river (City River). Urmia is the 10th populated city in iran and 2nd of Azerbaijanian Turks provinces after Tabriz. Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (Specially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown.An important town by the 9th cent. Urmia was seized by the Oghuz Turks (11th cent.), sacked by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.The name Urmia or Urmu is thought to have come from Sumerian tongue, the earliest known civilization in the world located in southern Mesopotamia. Ur was a principle Sumerian city. Some believe the name is derived from Syriac. Ur, meaning "cradle," and mia, meaning "water". Hence, Urmia, situated by a lake and surrounded by rivers, would be the cradle of water.The population of Urmia is predominantly Azerbaijanian Turks (over 90%), but with Kurdish,Assyrian and Armenian minorities.