"I’ve been doing a lot of flying recently, which has me thinking about the term flight attendant. It is undeniably clunky. And yet here it is—an odd little success story in the larger narrative of nonsexist language reform."
Excerpted from Anne Curzan's Attending to Gender. Read the rest of this fascinating post at Lingua Franca.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Use the IPA to Learn Foreign Language Pronunciations
Geoffrey Pullum has an excellent post about the International Phonetic Alphabet at Lingua Franca today. You can read it at this link.
Following are the official IPA charts for those who are curious about the difference between alphabet letters and IPA letters (symbols for sounds). An interactive IPA chart can be found here.
The study of sounds truly is fascinating.
Following are the official IPA charts for those who are curious about the difference between alphabet letters and IPA letters (symbols for sounds). An interactive IPA chart can be found here.
The study of sounds truly is fascinating.
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