International Congress on English Grammar ICEG 2013 at VIT
VIT University is hosting the 9th International Congress on English Grammar from 3rd to 5th January 2013.The Congress aims to promote interaction andSee it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The...
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I was delighted to read the account of historian John William Templeton traveling from California to visit, in person, the Emancipation Proclamation on display under glass in the National Archives...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The makers of Blekko believe they've built a great alternative to Google, but they're also realistic. They know their two-year-old Internet search engine won't ever supplant Google...
View ArticleDefending Against Bad Translation | One Hour Translation
The science part is obvious: You have two languages, two vocabularies, two grammars. You start with one and perform an equation that gets the same result in a different language.See it on Scoop.it,...
View ArticleStudent column: What does your writing say about you? | The Farmington...
Writing is something everybody does almost every day of their lives. Usually people don’t pay much attention to what their writing looks like. But what most people don’t know is that your writing can...
View ArticleWhat Online Tools Work for Teaching Language Arts?
Growing excitement around technology’s potential to transform the classroom has the education community chattering about laptops, tablets and smartphones. Continue reading →See it on Scoop.it, via...
View ArticleA Time To Publish
Last February, I penned an article for this blog that I decided in the end not to publish. My decision not to publish at that time was based on my view of Phil MacGiollabhain as being a ‘bust...See it...
View ArticleChoosing a Good Dictionary - ICAL TEFL Courses & Resources
Tips on how to choose the best dictionary for work or study or pleasure.See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The Translation World
View ArticleGoogle Is Really Three Companies, All On A Roll - Forbes
Before Ray Kurzweil's announcement about joining Google, I had been thinking about the search giant as two discreet companies in one skin. Now, I think three.See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The...
View ArticleEurope Isn't Going To Be Peer Pressured By U.S. Decision On Google
(Reuters) - A decision by U.S. regulators to end a probe into whether Google Inc hurt rivals by manipulating internet searches will not affect the European Union's examination of the company.See it on...
View ArticleThe First Egyptian Nominated for the Nobel Prize (for Literature)
I learn all sorts of interesting things from Michael Orthofer over at The Literary Saloon; for instance, that at the beginning of each year, the Nobel Prize folks open up their archives from 50...
View ArticleInternational Trade Glossary
Abstract Mercantile documents are text types generated within the international trade. Having studied a corpus of texts containing over 170 authentic documents of this specific field in English and...
View ArticleThe search for America's most wanted - Google's hottest search trends
GRIDIRON, tattoos, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Bronson Pelletier, a Sofia Vergara wardrobe malfunction and the death of Patti Page... America can't get enough news on those topics.See it on Scoop.it,...
View ArticleGoogle removes censorship notice from Chinese search
By Erik Crouch Only a few days after announcing the Google exec's plans to visit North Korea, the search engine has stopped notifying China-based users that their searches are filtered by the nation's...
View ArticleLet Google help you on your genealogy search
I think one of the things that happens as we begin to get deep into our genealogical research is that we lose sight of the forest for the trees.See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The Translation World
View ArticleTop 10 Ways To Speed Up Your Google Searches
For all the time you spend online, you probably spend most of it searching for stuff. So why settle for the most basic Google experience? Here are 10 ...See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The...
View ArticleAmazigh demand New Year holiday | Libya Herald
A number of local councils in Amazigh (Berber) areas of the country have called on the General National Congress to make 13 January a national holiday. The date marks the start of the Amazigh New...
View ArticleNgugi Wa Thiong’o: A Profile of a Literary and Social Activist
....Ngugi was arrested and imprisoned without charge at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison at the end of the year, December 31, 1977. An account of those experiences is to be found in his memoir, Detained:...
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TOTh 2013Call for papersDownload Call for papers (PDF)TOTh 2013: DatesTraining sessionTuesday, June 4 and Wednesday June 5, 2013ConferenceThursday, June 6 et Friday, June 7, 2013 Submission...
View ArticleDictionnaire en ligne avec plus de 1 000 langues et 40 000 000 traductions
Dictionnaire en ligne. Presque toutes les langues disponibles, des millions de traductionsCharles Tiayon's insight:A voir...See it on Scoop.it, via Metaglossia: The Translation World
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