This post was written by Starly Pratt, a Humanities Center student fellow. I sat on the edge of the cliff at Tintagel Castle as the wind pushed salty air into my lungs. To the right of me stretched miles of the Cornwall coast in all its cloudy glory, the soiled smell of the ten-minute-past …
To Unite or to Divide: A Treatise on Linguistic Variation
This post was written by Sydney Jo Pedersen, a Humanities Center student fellow. To live is to breathe, To breathe is to voice, To voice is to speak, To speak is to share, To share is to love, To love is to be. Language reveals. It shares. It unites. But, it can also divide. Sitting …
Linguistic Ecosystems and the Creation
This post was written by Chris Rogers, a Humanities Center faculty fellow. The first time I wanted to learn another language was because a new student, Edgar, had moved from Mexico into my fourth-grade classroom in Southern California. I asked my dad to teach me how to introduce myself to Edgar in Spanish (my …