10-Year-Old Gives Birth in Southern Spain [via the AP via NPR] Authorities in Spain are considering whether a 10-year-old in Spain should be permitted to keep her newborn baby. An official from Andalusia said the father is also a minor and that mother and baby are in good health. “Under Spanish law, having consensual sex [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Linguistics’
Morning Briefing: 3 November 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Cambridge University, Common Cold, Constitution, Linguistics, Medicine, Microbiology, Spain, Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Morning Briefing: 6 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged India, Linguistics, Stonewall Inn, SunChips on October 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Linguists uncover ‘hidden’ language in north India [via The Los Angeles Times] Researchers announced yesterday that they had uncovered a rarity in today’s world: a previously unknown language, Koro, spoken by approximately 1,000 people in northeast India. Previously linguists had believed Koro to be a mere dialect of Aka, a regional language, especially because Koro [...]
Morning Briefing: 24 August 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged DC, Ebonics, Fresh Air, Linguistics, Mario Batali, Tea Party on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts [via The Smoking Gun] Do you speak Ebonics, “a nonstandard variant of English spoken largely by African Americans”? The Department of Justice wants you! Documents obtained by The Smoking Gun indicate the Drug Enforcement Agency is seeking to hire nine Ebonics experts for its Atlanta operation, where they will presumably [...]
