Text and cartoons by Linda Thompson The Philogelos, typically translated as “the joker” or “the one who loves laughter”, is an ancient Greek collection of approximately 265 jokes. Dating to the 4th or 5th century CE, it typically bears the title of the world’s oldest surviving collection of jokes. After reading Dan Crompton’s translation of […]
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NML had two exhibit tables on October 21, 2017. One was at the Maryland Foreign Language Association’s conference at Anne Arundel Community College. Pat Barr-Harrison and Greg Nedved represented the Museum and networked with World Language educators. At the same time, Jill Robbins and Gary McCone shared the NML exhibits on Native American language at
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Hello everyone! My name is Rob Glass. As of October 20, I am the new social media manager for the NML. I just wanted to use this blog post to introduce myself and say a little about my background. I am currently a Spanish teacher at Kent Island High School, located in Stevensville, MD. I
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The NML visited the annual MFLA (Maryland Foreign Language Association) conference at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD on October 20th and 21st. Their keynote speaker was one of our own Associate members, Dr. Marc Okrand, the inventor of the Klingon language. After a fantastic keynote speech on his creation of the con-lang (constructed
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The 5 Minute Linguist is here to make accurate and up-to-date knowledge about language accessible. In bite-sized chunks, the book tackles a variety of linguistic questions that would fascinate language students, professionals, and anyone curious about the multi-faceted phenomenon that is language. In anticipation of the forthcoming third edition of The 5 Minute Linguist, its
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Text and cartoons by Linda Thompson The Philogelos, typically translated as “the joker” or “the one who loves laughter”, is an ancient Greek collection of approximately 265 jokes. Dating to the 4th or 5th century CE, it typically bears the title of the world’s oldest surviving collection of jokes. After reading Dan Crompton’s translation of
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Text and cartoons by Linda Thompson The Philogelos, typically translated as “the joker” or “the one who loves laughter”, is an ancient Greek collection of approximately 265 jokes. Dating to the 4th or 5th century CE, it typically bears the title of the world’s oldest surviving collection of jokes. After reading Dan Crompton’s translation of
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NML Vice President Greg Nedved sits down with the founders of the Languages and the First World War project. Click here for the full interview. What is your own language and academic background? Julian Walker: My first language is English; I studied French and Latin at school, and picked up conversational Spanish later. I can
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Text and cartoons by Linda Thompson The Philogelos, typically translated as “the joker” or “the one who loves laughter”, is an ancient Greek collection of approximately 265 jokes. Dating to the 4th or 5th century CE, it typically bears the title of the world’s oldest surviving collection of jokes. After reading Dan Crompton’s translation of
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We are pleased to introduce you to our newest Board of Trustees member, Shannon Zellars-Strohl. Shannon Zellars-Strohl teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently completing her PhD in Victorian literature. Her research focuses on intersections of traditional religion and seemingly secular supernaturalism in late-Victorian fiction. She is also currently studying self-reflection in contemporary
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