Synonymity and semantic variability in medieval French and Middle English.
Texts in medieval French and English often string together two or even three (quasi-)synonyms carrying a wide range of senses, a feature commonly regarded by modern scholars as stylistic rather than semantic. However, while for the modern reader the dictionary has become the accepted arbiter of form and meaning,...

It's <i>Sholay</i> in Sanskrit.
Byline: Raul Dias Indian students in the United States are promoting the language through cyberspace. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think - 'Sanskrit'? An ancient Indian language that has formed the base for many languages including German? Or...

National Jewelry Company Asks People to Vote for Next Language of Love in Time for Valentine's Day.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Helzberg Diamonds, a fine retail jewelry company with more than 260 stores nationwide, is hosting an international public vote on a twelfth new language for their popular (and free) I Am Loved(R) button. Over the years, more than 50 million people worldwide...

The reliability of essay marking in high-stakes Chinese second language examinations.
ABSTRACT Essay marking is a subjective intellectual exercise in which the score reliability can be influenced by many factors such as the test design, the marker's interpretation of the marking criteria, the procedure, and the method used in the marking process. After conducting a literature review this...

Grant may benefit immersion school.
Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard A federal grant to assist eight dual Spanish/English immersion programs in Oregon could have a ninth beneficiary: River Road/El Camino del Rio Elementary. The grant, written by the University of Oregon's Center for Applied Second Language Studies well before the...

Why Bush wants Americans to learn Hindi.
Byline: CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA WASHINGTON: Uncle Sam wants his wards to learn Hindi http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1361999.cms so he can be seen as Uncle Shyam. Hindi has been identified as one of the critical foreign languages that Americans need to learn in greater numbers to win international brownie points and be...

Home truths.
Byline: Rajeshwari Sharma Strange things are affecting inhabitants of the publishing world. Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam freaked out as news of alien (read Penguin Books) invasion spread. They swear its eyes glowed bright green and the residents are convinced that "other world" forces are taking over the language...

Towards a typological classification of false friends (Spanish-English).
RESUMEN. Las palabras cognadas en dos o más lenguas son aquellas que tienen un origen común dada su relación desde un punto de vista diacrónico y, como consecuencia de ello, comparten afinidades formales y/o semánticas. Los cognados pueden favorecer el proceso de aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera, pues tienen...

A selected bibliography of the traditional languages of Torres Strait.
In preparation for a paper on Sidney Herbert Ray (1858-1939), the linguist with the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, I had occasion to view Ray's archive, deposited in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library of the University of London. The archive was microfilmed for...

Who needs a media cop?
NEW DELHI: Imagine a law where no single company can sell more than one variant of a soap brand or any other product or service. Since most marketers like to sell to a majority, all that consumers have, is duplication of the same variant, albeit with different...