contributorOrin Hargraves Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversThat Only Happens in the Movies  March 4, 2019
Linguistics and Big Data have been a fruitful partnership since they first found each other, and new hookups with promising results are happening all the time. Here's a small sampling of the riches to be found in two new corpora — the TV Corpus and the Movie Corpus.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversTeach Your Children Well February 1, 2019
What happened (and is apparently still happening) in English-speaking societies that results in so much discourse about the problems in education? Here is some fodder for the discussion.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word Lovers2019: The International Year of Indigenous Languages January 1, 2019
Unesco chooses a cultural theme to highlight and celebrate every year. Now, in 2019, indigenous languages are ready for a long overdue closeup.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversFrench Letters and Their Uses December 3, 2018 By Orin Hargraves
If we start from the fact that language is first and foremost a spoken activity, the methods by which people have extended its powers to writing offer a fascinating lens into human history.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word Lovers"Humans and Robots Do Not Communicate Well" November 1, 2018 By Orin Hargraves
Nothing is more intuitive and natural to humans than communicating via language, and specifically, via speech. Language must be central to developing a more robust channel for human-robot communication.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversWhat Did God Really Mean by That? October 1, 2018 By Orin Hargraves
Canons, whether you believe that their prime movers are divine or not, are the work of humans, and are surely among our most imaginative creations. But our ways of interpreting and implementing the language of religious canons are equally imaginative and creative.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversWhat Did They Really Mean by That? September 4, 2018 By Orin Hargraves
Written language has an afterlife that is practically unlimited. When we commit something to writing we make a record that far outlives the context in which it is produced. Take the United States Constitution for example, now on the job for more than 225 years.
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