Posted by on Nov 18, 2011 in Career, Science & technology | 0 comments

Don’t Break The Internet! Watch the video, sign the petition

Don’t Break The Internet! Watch the video, sign the petition
Please sign this petition to stop a bill that's so crazy that it could shut down Twitter and Youtube, as well as my blog or yours.
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Posted by on Apr 13, 2008 in Languages | 1 comment

Señorita Ruth on: English Only Pt. 2

Are They Talk­ing About Me? What are the ide­o­log­i­cal impli­ca­tions of choos­ing an offi­cial lan­guage? What kind of under­ly­ing belief sys­tem does it betray? A major marker of cul­ture and iden­tity, lan­guage sep­a­rates worlds of expe­ri­ence. And when it’s not your own,...
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Posted by on Apr 11, 2008 in Languages | 3 comments

Señorita Ruth on: English Only Pt. 1

Nations & Lan­guage It’s easy to trace and under­stand the con­nec­tion between the ideas of “one nation” and “one lan­guage.” These sim­ple asso­ci­a­tions have out­lined the lan­guage poli­cies of west­ern Euro­pean coun­tries from the mid­dle of the 19th cen­tury for­ward....
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