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Language · January, 2010
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Stories about Language from January, 2010

Korea: Translating The Tweets Of Novelist Lee Oisoo

East Asia28 January 2010

Lee Oisoo is a Korean novelist and artist who has been described as "an eccentric, a genius and a lunatic". When he set up a Twitter account last year he...

Jamaica, Haiti: Making sense of it all

Quick Reads · Caribbean27 January 2010

Jamaica, Haiti: Using the Language

Quick Reads · Caribbean25 January 2010

Russia: Project Aims To Translate Popular Blogs Into Russian

Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe21 January 2010

Kenya: Kiswahili an optional subject

Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa21 January 2010

Japan: QT is a Variation of ReTweet

Quick Reads · East Asia19 January 2010

Africa: Free Kiswahili synthetic voice for Freedom Fone

Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa18 January 2010

Russia: Largest Political Community Online Removed And Restored

Eastern & Central Europe14 January 2010

The recent case of the most popular political online community demonstrated how easy it is to limit free expression on RuNet and revealed the willingness of online audience to defend...

Egypt: English Loan Words

Middle East & North Africa13 January 2010

"Egyptian" Arabised English is taking the Twittersphere by storm. Tarek Amr collects reactions from #EgyEnglish in this post which explains how bilingual Egyptians have included English words in their dialect.

Taiwan: Teaching anthropology in Hualien

Quick Reads · East Asia9 January 2010

China: Welcome back, Yeeyan

Quick Reads · East Asia7 January 2010

Morocco: First Indigenous TV Channel Launched

Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa7 January 2010

Slovakia, Hungary: Happy New Year!

Eastern & Central Europe4 January 2010

The relations between the two neighboring countries, Slovakia and Hungary, went bad last year - but some Slovak and Hungarian citizens are trying to improve the situation by launching an...