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Welcome back learners!

We hope you've all had a restful break and are ready to get back to learning this Summer term!

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Our Spring #Newsletter is live 🌻

Click through to read about what is happening at Ruils over the next quarter and wider community offerings.

There might even be a cheeky discount code in there for an amazing service!

Read on: mailchi.mp/25fd4a76bf1f/r…

This is insane. #ClimateActionNow

Heading home…….slowly…….

Must admit, AI has really managed to pin down the way American names sound to non-Americans

If you do research on language variation and/or computational linguistics, you might be interested in our 'Language Variation Toolbox'. This software, that we've presented it in last year's #Romanistentag , is freely available on GitHub.
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The idea that 'language' is amodal and separable from its modalities is the primary, traditional tenet of the language sciences that we argue against in our upcoming book The Multimodal Language Faculty visuallanguagelab.com/mlf

Please sign my petition for defibrillators to be put in every home for when Laura Kuenssberg has a guest representing the Green Party. #BBCLauraK
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Well, this was fun! In today’s Irish Independent, I talked to Laura Lynott about slang and then Laura went straight to the source.

Soldiering on…

While you’re relaxing some people are hard at work…

🚨 Don’t forget to book your free place King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures PGR conference: “Insider/Outsider: Perspectives from Languages, Literatures & Cultures” 🗓️29 April
📄 Academic papers + poster presentations + poetry & music performances
All levels & disciplines welcome! kcl.ac.uk/events/insider…

A novel study points to the mysterious origins of North American Indigenous languages. bit.ly/441UFxW

Wonderful news. I’ll be very sad indeed to leave in the summer, but am delighted to be handing over to Victoria. And #Guidedog Otto, you’re going to LOVE living opposite Park Tivoli and its squirrels! 🦮🏔️

Honestly the first bit of really good counter-propaganda I can remember seeing the TUC put out at any point in my entire adult life.

My #WordOfTheWeek is 'display' - show, exhibit, flaunt - as in 'a public display', 'in/on full display', 'display open contempt'. In Middle English the word signified unfold, unfurl, from Old French 'despleier', from Latin 'displicare' scatter, disperse.

LANDMARK ARTS CENTRE Landmark Arts Centre
SPRING ART FAIR May 17th-19th
The Landmark Art Fair provides a unique setting for individual artists from the local area and beyond to exhibit & sell their work. Visitors can browse from over 75 stands. For details: artsrichmond.org.uk/whats-on

“How are we to expect them to prioritise the views of disabled people and take action as the mayor of London, if they decline our invitation to a hustings?'

Read our Campaign Manager's & others views on candidates not turning up to the @inclusionlondon #hustings

#NoMoreNoShows