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  • September 2007

    • World's Smartest Parrot Is No More

      Boston Globe  |  Sep 11, 07 3:27 PM CDT

      World's Smartest Parrot Is No More

      (Newser) - Brandeis researchers feel as though they’ve lost a colleague: Alex, the African gray parrot they studied for 30 years, died Friday. He helped them reach surprising new conclusions about the avian brain and “was extraordinary in breaking the perceptions of birds as not being intelligent,” according to scientist Irene Pepperberg, who bought him in 1977. More »

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      obituary  • language  • African gray parrot  • parrot  • cognitive development

    • Dems' Miami Debate Makes Foray Into Spanish

      Miami Herald  |  Sep 10, 07 7:51 AM CDT

      Dems' Miami Debate Makes Foray Into Spanish

      (Newser) - Democratic hopefuls took part in a Spanish-language debate in Miami yesterday, having questions translated UN-style from Spanish to English, and answers back again into Spanish. Though he'd agreed to the ground rules, bilingual contender Bill Richardson couldn't resist  asking in Spanish if he could continue in Spanish, and Sen. Chris Dodd also took the opportunity to flaunt his fluency. More »

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      election 2008  • Democrats  • Cuba  • Bill Richardson  • Latin America  • immigration reform  • language  • Miami  • presidential debate  • Christopher Dodd  • voters  • debate  • Spanish  • bilingual education  • Univision

  • August 2007

    • What Is This 'Mate' of Which You Speak?

      Times (UK)  |  Aug 27, 07 6:29 PM CDT

      What Is This 'Mate' of Which You Speak?

      (Newser) - For its new citizenship test, the Australian government has provided a formal definition of the word "mate." Yes, as in "G'day, mate." A 40-page guide for aspiring Aussies, the brainchild of the immigration minister, defines mateship as the condition “where people help and receive help from others voluntarily, especially in times of adversity." More »

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      Australia  • language  • John Howard

    • So, You Need to Learn Swahili?

      Portfolio  |  Aug 26, 07 5:08 PM CDT

      So, You Need to Learn Swahili?

      (Newser) - Get ready for your business trip or vacation with these programs recommended by Porfolio . Pimsleur Approach: 10-day courses offered in 40 languages. Rosetta Stone: Promises competence in 2 weeks in 30 languages. Teach Yourself: CDs and books offer 200 languages at varying speeds. More »

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      list  • education  • language  • learning

    • NYC May Ban the 'B-Word'

      New York Times  |  Aug 7, 07 3:38 PM CDT

      NYC May Ban the 'B-Word'

      (Newser) - The "N-word" was the first to go, earlier this year, and now New York's city council wants to impose a citywide symbolic ban on another dirty word: bitch. The councilwoman who jump-started the initiative calls the slur "a vile attack on our womanhood," but plenty of New Yorkers disagree. It all depends on context, the Times reports. More »

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      New York City  • censorship  • language  • sexism  • profanity

    • Toddlers Learn Language Slowly and Quickly

      Scientific American  |  Aug 3, 07 4:57 PM CDT

      Toddlers Learn Language Slowly and Quickly

      (Newser) - Toddlers learn to speak by simply using small, familiar words to acquire harder ones, new research says, throwing a curveball at scientists who assumed a more complex cognitive system. Youngsters can rapidly go from spouting babble to intelligible chatter as long as their words have varying levels of difficulty, Scientific American reports. More »

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      children  • language  • toddler  • learning  • vocabulary  • cognitive science

    • Orangutans Play Charades

      BBC  |  Aug 2, 07 9:24 AM CDT

      Orangutans Play Charades

      (Newser) - Orangutan communication works just like a game of charades, according to new research. Orangs and other apes who use signals to communicate what they want pay careful attention to whether their audience understands their gestures—if something works, they repeat it, and if they aren't getting through they try another signal. More »

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      language  • human evolution  • communication  • apes  • orangutans

  • July 2007

    • Mass Embarrassment: Priests Need Latin Lessons

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 16, 07 5:59 AM CDT

      Mass Embarrassment: Priests Need Latin Lessons

      (Newser) - Traditionalist Catholics have lauded Pope Benedict's recent call for more Masses in Latin, but priests are biting their nails—few of them know enough of the language to say a Latin Mass. Even Italian priests face embarrassment in the wake of Pope Benedict 's decision to allow Latin services at parishioners' request, the Italian daily La Stampa reports. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • language  • Mass  • Latin Mass

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