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talk of language, travel, and (quarter-time) employment

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

moving day!

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It's moving day!! No, not to Spain (one more week!). But to the NEW SITE of this blog, at jennymarshall.wordpress.com . Same posts...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

lost in translation: foreign words for familiar concepts

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I came across this post about untranslatable words from other languages via the wonderful blog A Cup of Jo . I just loved the illustratio...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

5 reasons to be jealous of my flip-phone

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Call me touchy, but I’m sick of everyone assuming I own a Smartphone. The latest issue of Sunset magazine boasts an enticing picture of a...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

lost in translation: Harry Potter

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With just four weeks left until Spain, I've shifted my focus from bolstering my English lexicon to refreshing my grasp on Spanish. M...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

digital language

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I read an interesting article published by Idibon, a company that helps other companies analyze their digital language data. I am so fa...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

some clips of Spain

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I leave for Spain six weeks from today. Hopefully that's just enough time to make me thoroughly sick of living at home--as for now, I...
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Thursday, August 1, 2013

excessively verbose

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Here on the blog I've been chatting away about my current life (premature aging) and my future life (hopefully less so), but let...
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Welcome to A Thing for Wor(l)ds, where linguistic nerdiness meets a love for travel. Follow me as I delay the 9-5 for at least another year, and put my Linguistics major to use by teaching English in northern Spain!
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