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09/07/2008
Hundreds gather to say goodbye to beloved BSU professor (KTVB Boise)
Mary Ellen Ryder taught linguistics at Boise State University for 20 years, and not only left an impact on her family and friends, but the hundreds that attended her classes and lectures. She was remembered for her many passions during a memorial service on campus Saturday.Her memory is still alive
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09/07/2008
Postfeminism and Other Fairy Tales (New York Times)
It?s not quite an ?angry woman? moment. But the politics of the last few months have certainly opened a spigot on the question of where exactly society stands on gender matters.
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09/07/2008
Family, friends, celebrate life of Mary Ellen Ryder (The Idaho Statesman)
Friends and family gathered Saturday at Boise State University to remember linguistics professor Mary Ellen Ryder. Ryder, 56, died Aug. 25 when her home at her home at 3594 Immigrant Pass Court burned in the Oregon Trail Fire. She taught at Boise State for two decades.
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09/06/2008
Coast Lines: Sept. 6, 2008 (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
SANTA CRUZ Linguist to help save Chamorro UC Santa Cruz professor of linguistics Sandra Chung has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project designed to preserve the endangered Chamorro language.
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09/07/2008
MISTAKES BY AFGHAN TRANSLATORS ENDANGER LIVES, HAMPER ANTITERRORISM EFFORT (EurasiaNet.org)
When U.S. or NATO soldiers need to communicate with Afghan villagers, they rely on translators provided by private contractors. But for various reasons -- regional dialects, cultural misunderstandings, or even ethnic animosities -- translators in Afghanistan often don’t relate everything they hear.
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09/07/2008
Unheralded Carabeo, Lao earn bowling World Cup berths (GMA News)
MANILA, Philippines - Jeff Carabeo and Kim Lao, two unheralded players, will represent the Philippines in the World Cup of bowling in Mexico.
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09/07/2008
Readers' weddings (The Palm Beach Post)
Morris-Saavedra
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09/06/2008
Paperback Row (New York Times)
Paperback books of particular interest.
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09/07/2008
Mary Ellen Ryder Memorial (KBCI Boise)
It's a tragedy CBS 2 Eyewitness News has followed since last Monday's devastating fire. The beloved Boise State professor unable to get out of her burning home. Saturday family and friends gathered to celebrate Mary Ellen Ryder's life.
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09/06/2008
Hey, That?s (Not) Funny (New York Times)
Racial humor is everywhere. But there are rules that make it acceptable sometimes.
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  • Binnick's Linguistic Bibliography - Annotated bibliography of tense, verbal aspect, aktionsart and related areas.
  • Blogos - News and opinion articles on sociolinguistics, bilingualism, translation, technology, and other aspects of linguistics.
  • The Homepage of Integrational Linguistics - A specific approach to linguistics combining a comprehensive theory of language and a theory of grammars.
  • Language and Linguistics - Essays on language and linguistics and links to related materials.
  • Language Exploration - Basic concepts, definition of
  • Language Log - Weblog run by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman, with multiple guest linguists.
  • Lexicon of Linguistics - Searchable database of linguistic terminology updated with new terms in the areas of Generative Grammar (Minimalism) and Phonetics. Includes bibliography.
  • Linguasphere - An exploration of linguistics and related resources with extracts from the Linguasphere Register of the world languages and speech communities.
  • Linguistic Data Consortium - Sharing of linguistic data, tools and standards resources.
  • Linguistic Exploration - Multidimensional exploration of online linguistic databases.
  • The Linguistics Project - Interdisciplinary, international, internet-community on language and linguistics.
  • Maledicta Press - Specializes in negatively-valued words and expressions from all languages and cultures, focussing on the origin, etymology, meaning, use and influence of verbal aggression and abuse of any kind.
  • Museum of Human Language - Virtual museum with columns. Definition of a language, linguistics, and language function.
  • The sci.lang FAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions about dialects, languages and their relationships, linguistics, and phonetic systems.
  • Stewardship Project - Listings of international geographical names, orthography and transcription with commentaries on language.
  • Unilang Community - Provides a home for everybody interested in any aspect of language(s) or linguistics.
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