Applied Immersion Linguistics at SBL in San Francisco
September 22, 2011 By 2 Comments
I received my SBL program book in the mail yesterday, and looked to see what sessions looked interesting and begin figuring out which I might like to attend. Among the most striking are the lunchtime meetings in applied linguistics: S20-202 Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages 11/20/2011 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM Room: Howard – Intercontinental [...]
Do You REALLY Know Greek?
September 13, 2011 By 2 Comments
Daniel Streett has posted again on the teaching and learning of New Testament Greek on his blog, καὶ τὰ λοιπά. He shares the story of distributing a quiz on Greek words, most of which occur somewhere in the Greek Bible but not all of which are in the New Testament, at a conference. The quiz [...]
CAPTCHA Challenges for Would-Be Internet Users
August 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I found this suggestion for a CAPTCHA challenge for people who want to use the internet funny (via The Daily What). If you failed to answer correctly, you would see this: If you are concerned that this might disadvantage not only native speakers of English (apparently among them also designers of Apple’s “auto-correct” feature) who [...]
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