Lectures and Book Chapters
I’ve had a busy and eventful week, and right now appears to be about the only spare time I’ve had. I attended the Australian Languages Workshop last weekend at Kioloa on the NSW south coast, an outpost...
View ArticleBilingual education back in spotlight
As Jane announced last week at Elac, a Research Symposium on Bilingual Education was held on Friday at AIATSIS, at which their 24th discussion paper was launched by Mick Dodson. Ordinarily, such an...
View ArticleDr Jangari
Nothing is official as yet, but I’m fairly confident that I can informally announce to the world that I will be commencing a Ph.D. next year. My topic will be Classical Tiwi, an Australian language...
View ArticleBilingual education on Four Corners
In the last few weeks, the topic of bilingual education in Australia has been receiving a fair amount of coverage in the mainstream media. Last week, I happened upon an article in the Herald, echoing...
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The Wagiman Electronic Dictionary
Cross-posted at pfed.info. Last week, I undertook a brief fieldtrip to Pine Creek and Kybrook Farm, Northern Territory, to present the completed Wagiman Electronic Dictionary to the Wagiman community....
View ArticleMaloo and Bathurst
Last night on SBS was the season final of Top Gear, one of my favourite shows. Ordinarily Top Gear and linguistics don’t mix particularly well, but last night’s installment had no less than two...
View ArticleA quixotic debate
This week, an argument has been being waged in the Opinion section of the Sydney Morning Herald about the effect of the internet on language. It started with an article on Tuesday about Australian...
View ArticleResurrecting the Blog
This is evidently my first post in some six months and I have to confess, I have been thinking about throwing in the towel altogether. Two of the reasons for this were that I have been writing...
View ArticleGoogleganger: Word of the Year?
I read today that Macquarie Dictionary have named their Word of the Year for 2010: Googleganger. The word is immediately understandable; a googleganger is someone that has the same name as you, whom...
View ArticleTweemo
Just saw this word on an online forum and was so impressed, I thought I’d share it with the blogosphere: Tweemo: n. derog. Of or pertaining to Twitter and Emos, i.e., immature and whiny. Eg: Walking...
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