One of my students is sufficiently interested in the IPA that I felt justified linking him here. He was wondering how to make a rhotic schwa for the pronunciation guide on his Shakespeare phrasebook project-- it's the final project for their History of English unit. I have students making everything from books to Facebook pages to t-shirts for it ( Read more... )

Two e-mails from one student tonight:

Ms. -----,

Hwaet! (I'm not really going to tell you a story but whatever.) When is the Test on units 1-9?

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From, ------.

The second e-mail was an attempt to translate Never Gonna Give You Up into LATIN. I'm considering posting it to linguaphiles for help, because it's close, but clearly a bit too dictionary- ( Read more... )