Meaghan Smith and Ethiopia

Meaghan Smith is on her way to Ethiopia to work with Wycliffe Bible translators.

Last Week’s Conference

Review of Western Fellowship of Professors and Scholars, 2009.

Read a Book, Write a Book

Use photos provided to write a book, or read one in another language.

Changing the World, One T-Shirt at a Time

Today was graduation day; our students were challenged to change the world.

Hot Fun in the Summer Time

If you are looking for a summertime learning experience, Biblical Archaeology Review posts a list of more than thirty archaeology sites that are looking for volunteers.  At some sites, you can volunteer for as little as a week, at others you can spend the whole summer.
If you’d like to see and make history, check out [...]

Kasey

On of my students in a large class this semester has been in critical care the last couple of days, with a tumor in his chest.  It was evidently just discovered.
All of his friends and classmates have rallied around to send him their good wishes and prayers.  This is only the third week into class [...]

Self-Loathing Professors

Robert Alter spoke of literature professors who don’t like literature in his book The Pleasure of Reading (reviewed here).  Professor Bruce Fleming likewise lamented that literary studies are killing literature by forcing students to learn the jargon and arcane techniques of “literary studies” rather than actually reading great literature.
Hector Avalos is a professor of the [...]

Scottish Hospitality

Margaret, the Berkely Scott hersel, published a story illustrating the Doric speech of NE Scotland.  Here is a brief excerpt:

Aifter we hid oor fish n’chips, Sybil said she wid affy like a bath. Weel, fit she actually said, wis, “Gee you guys, after all I’ve been through today, I’d really love to soak in a [...]

Fun with Funetics

I am having fun and learning along with my students in the phonetics class I am teaching this semester.  Here are some online resources we have found, if you also find language fascinating:

The University of Iowa has a really nice online phonetics tutorial for English, German, and Spanish.  Just click on the German flag, and [...]

Out of Many One

On the “Friends Finds” page, Baiba passes on a piece from the Lawrence Journal World about a town in England wanting to eliminate Latin phrases, for example e.g., ad hoc, etc. and the other ones.
I did notice that President-Elect Obama substituted a translation of e pluribus unum in his speech.
I wonder if we should replace [...]