There is a growing proportion of transgender and nonbinary people worldwide, and the practice of addressing this group by they/them pronouns and using their as a singular possessive pronoun is becoming increasingly commonplace in today’s society. As a Spanish college professor, I am fielding more and more questions from students about the preferences used in the Spanish language when referring to nonbinary (no binarie in Spanish) persons and how the Spanish language is developing relative to modifications in the English language. This is where the differences and complexities arise: Spanish, unlike English, has masculine and feminine nouns. The modern Romance

Language Magazine | Improving Literacy & Communication

28.11.2024

Congress Defers FY25 Language Education Funding Decisions - Language Magazine

In late September, Congress completed work on a continuing resolution (CR), a temporary spending measure that will keep the government operating through December 20. The House passed the CR with a vote of 341–82, while the Senate approved it 78–18. The president will sign it into law shortly. With these votes completed, Congress now stands in recess until after the election and effectively defers final decisions on fiscal year 2025 spending until then. When Congress returns, it will begin negotiating in earnest on final overall spending levels for each of the federal government’s twelve annual appropriations bills, including the FY25

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03.12.2024

Applied Peace Linguistics - Language Magazine

As a language learner, how often do you reflect critically on your psycho-social purposes for learning? As a language user, how often do you consider the impact of your expression and its role in promoting harmony and justice? As a language teacher, how often do you teach with the intention of building peace? As a language researcher, how often do you carefully examine teaching, learning, and use from a peace perspective? If rarely, what has prevented you from doing so? Perhaps you feel quite busy with and possibly burdened by your normal workload and daily routine? Or maybe you have

Language Magazine | Improving Literacy & Communication

03.12.2024

Crackdown on ‘Unauthorized’ Chinese - Language Magazine

China’s internet regulator has launched a campaign to crack down on “unauthorized” use of language online, in a move experts say is a bid to stem the widespread use of slang and abbreviations by Generation Z on social media.The Cyberspace Administration of China will take steps to “rectify the chaos of the irregular use of Mandarin and other characters on the internet,” the country’s state news agency Xinhua reported last month.The move is part of a nationwide crackdown on language usage with the code name Clear and Bright, and will target expressions involving homophones—words that sound the same but mean

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