‘Swamping’, ‘Cockroaches’, ‘Invasion’: How Language Shapes our View of Migration – Byline Times
Dan Clayton looks at a rising tide of martial, dehumanising and manipulative metaphors over asylum seekers and migrants in the UK
Gullah Geechee enters the academy - Subtitle
There's a new language class on offer at Harvard. Gullah Geechee is a creole language developed by enslaved Africans and still spoken today. As far as anyone knows, it's the first time it's been taught anywhere. Sunn M'Cheaux — native speaker turned Harvard instructor — tells his story and the story of Gullah Geechee, a language that is as African as it is American.
fleur-flour-flah and ‘good’ english – More of A Comment
it’s as much a historical artifact as the rhotic American accents probably resemble older forms of British accents, or the American habit to NOT pronounce the h in ‘herb’ unlike modern British (and that was, again, another French thing). It’s not wrong, and if monolinguals tell us otherwise, then they’re just being jerks and ignorant of their own history.