Getting an upgrade for UK exams
The UK secondary education system offers the students the opportunity to have their exam papers remarked, usually to their advantage...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- May 14
- 1 min
On the proliferation of Spanish surnames: what is the point?
Mystified by the proliferation of Spanish (from Spain mainly) surnames. Reminds me of Monty Python, our fathers, and our fathers'...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- May 10
- 1 min
Descartes and early tutorials
What killed Descartes? Early tutorials. Queen Christina (1650) demanded his presence at dawn. He got pneumonia and died. Hence no...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- May 10
- 1 min
An ecumenical matter? Learning role-plays by heart
As this is the time of the language oral exams in the northern hemisphere, wouldn't it be nice if "real people" were also taught to...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Mar 26
- 1 min
Mai-Juin 1968: Début d'une lutte prolongée (contre la retraite à 64)
SOME AFICHES NEVER GO OUT OF FASHION: PENSER ENSEMBLE - NON POUSSER ENSEMBLE - OUI LE DROIT DE VIVRE NE SE MENDIE PAS IL SE PREND AND THE...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Tsundoku
Tsundoku: according to the Metro paper, this is a Japanese term for the buying of books that might end up in a pile, unread (I am...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jan 18
- 1 min
“of a woman not born.”
Apparently some students think that Macduff had a c-section. Also for the same scene, Macbeth decides to dress up for battle. Flourish....
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Nov 21, 2022
- 1 min
Girl Boss: Bernarda Alba
Bernarda Alba? Like Thatcher, some say "Find ich gut". Another veritable Mrs Bennet (five brainless daughters to marry). Bernarda hates...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Sep 29, 2022
- 1 min
What was the plural of Spanish before Spanish?
Spanish plural derived from Latin accusative plural
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jan 17, 2022
- 1 min
It's not a sin to have a tutor at Uni
Why it is not a sin to have a tutor at university
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jan 10, 2022
- 1 min
Strictly Not Linguistics?
When did Linguistics fall out of favour with Languages? Or why did Languages want nothing to to with Linguistics until well into the 80s...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Dec 27, 2021
- 1 min
Fire fox burning bright
Scandy legend turns the aurora borealis into a "fire fox". Fox fire in Japan, with fox spirits and magical foxes thrown in....
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
How to be an alien (with apologies to Mikes)
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer provides good examples of British understatements and how they would be misunderstood by a Dutch person....
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Apr 8, 2021
- 1 min
Bad Romance
Some thoughts about "defective" verbs and other fossils. Andarsene. Word has it that "sene" became a fixed form, attached to "andar" and...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Oct 7, 2020
- 1 min
A De-caffed MLAT (te)
For those who have to do the MLAT test at Oxbridge, I find it very odd that you don't want to do morphology and linguistics (and...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
Universal prohibitions in feature geometry. OT is OTT
I have been doing OT through lock-down basing my studies on this book, A course in Phonology - 1999. I have the following problem: in p....
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Mar 17, 2020
- 1 min
Social climbing in Clitic Climbing ?
Descartes, 1635 ... avant qu'on le puisse voir imprimé ... Notice that clitic climbing WAS allowed in French in 1635. Being contemporary...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Jan 5, 2020
- 1 min
Monkey noises
If only we could make communicative monkey noises like Dame Jane Woodall does in her video.
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Nov 23, 2019
- 1 min
The mysterious case of the "racist" unflattened diphthong
"Corbyn made Epstein sound more Jewish" says Metro (21.11.19) by pronouncing his name "epsh-tine" and not "ep-steen". An English comedian...
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Emilce Sandra Rees
- Nov 8, 2019
- 1 min
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
Reclaiming your ancestry via your "family name". All European names had their ancestry in some skill or chore. Most Europeans were...
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