Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged languages
Futr Lang
Apr 4th
I have found myself thinking recently on the future of language and the written word. Some of my thinking has been fueled by the conversation happening on the EME 5404 blog.
I’ve been struggling with the questions:
Who and when did we decide that our language was no longer going to change? That the evolution of language had stopped and that the way our language is right now is the way it should always be?
I don’t really know the history of the written word, but I do know that we as humans have been writing for thousands of years. Just from my More >
I’ve been Geek!ed!
Mar 10th
You know when you’ve been Geek!ed! when listening to a podcast becomes workout music! It’s sad really I know. But it makes 30 minutes on the treadmill fly by! I’m a couple episodes behind right now, which isn’t a bad thing because I can listen to a Geek!ed! podcast both days I run.
This week I was listening to episode 0060 and as usual the Geek!ed! crew got me thinking. In the episode they discuss languages and what, if any, languages should be taught in school. Of course China came up in the conversation and whether or not we should be teaching our More >
