The Linguistics of Texting: Because Internet
Why do grandparents always text … kind of like this … with the dots … and use them to separate
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linguistics
New Seed Grant Brings Translangualism to Swat
On November 7th, Professor Natalie Mera Ford, Swarthmore’s Multilingual Language Specialist and Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department, alongside
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Swarth Her? I Hardly Know Her
Now that I can confidently say that life at Swarthmore is not going terribly, it’s weird to imagine going back
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The argument against the use of the term “Latinx”
As we continually search for ways to improve gender inclusivity in Spanish, we have come up with a myriad of
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Coleman Donaldson Discusses the Social Life of Writing Systems
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
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Chomsky at Swat? Noam way!
Noam Chomsky, renowned professor of linguistics and opponent of neo-liberalism, and his daughter Aviva Chomsky, professor of Latin American studies
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Madagascar: Part II: What Exactly Is The Lingua Franca?
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
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