Language Unrecognized

Group activities

 * Discussion of student language research
 * Designing language games. There aren't very many of these on the market, but there will be when we're done.
 * Screening of The Linguists a film about researchers and the rush to save endangered languages.

Planned:


 * Language deconstruction: One person each week will take a language, research it, and discuss some unusual or interesting features
 * Article discussion: Send us articles of interest for linguistics. These should be A. Short, B. Readable to a non-specialist, and C. Of some general interest beyond your own subfield. Popular science/magazine articles are A'OK. Send any articles to lkp06@hampshire.edu, and our signers will discuss them.
 * Group conlang. It's geeky but fun. See also: Idealized speaker community.
 * We're considering attending a conference in the spring as well, when we have more funding.

Inventory
Nothing yet, we hope to have a couple of language games by the end of the semester.

Language Games
These are planned as of yet, share your ideas


 * IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) scrabble
 * Colorless Green Ideas: Words available based on frequency. You must produce a sentence that is semantically meaningless.
 * Guess the dialect. We've got a website full of English dialects and non-native speakers. Can you guess where they're from?

Language deconstruction sessions
Tells us about the interesting features of a language you know. Or research a new language, and tell us about that. We'll probably have mini-presentations starting on the 28th. Sign up for a language here if you want, we'll discuss dates soon.


 * Jake: Japanese
 * Auburn: Phonology of ASL
 * Luke: Saramaccan?
 * Ian: Esperanto?

Schedule
14 October: Language games. Need a break after your break? Come by the ASH lobby and play language games. Fun for the whole family! (Jack Thompson's not in your family, right?) 21 October: Screening of The Linguists. That's right, we're finally showing the movie every geek wants to see. Come by the 'FPH lobby at 7, and we'll grab a room. 28 October: Normal meetings resume, language deconstruction sessions start.

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