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Randall Munroe,
xkcd,
Jun 22, 2011
Yesterday I ran a post talking about different types of language learning. This XKCD cartoon draws out the implications. There is no single entity called 'language' that every person understands. There are different domains of language with different emphases for different degrees of expertise in different disciplines, from Stephen Colbert's warm-up exercises (skip to 6:50) to understanding eggcorns to shapes for sounds to the jargon and variant grammar used in the schoolyard, the classroom, or an academic paper about language learning. And yes, using a web cartoon to make a point about education is part of acceptable discourse in this newsletter (don't try it in the Journal of Learning though).
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