The future of education?
I read in this morning’s Herald that a school in Victoria has been trialing the use of iPods for facilitating school work. iTouches1 are being used to research and submit assignments, to download music...
View ArticleGoing North Again
I can now confirm that I’ll be back in the territory in a little over a week’s time. It’s my first time back there in over 18 months, and it’ll be my first experience of a Northern Territory wet...
View ArticleRelatively cool in the tropics
I reckon I chose about the best time to come to the Northern Territory, given that this weekend in Sydney is meant to be swelteringly hot, 44 degrees odd, while up here it peaks at about 30 degrees...
View ArticleIn Transit
Well, my time in the Territory has come to an end, almost. I’m sitting in Darwin airport waiting for my flight. Not a lot to do in Darwin, so I pretty much came straight here after getting dinner in...
View ArticleSlowly but surely
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working my way through my several hours of Wagiman recordings from my recent fieldtrip, all the time remarking at how excellent they are. It’s a combination of a...
View ArticleFolk Lexicography: Snusted
A situation came up during the week in which I used a word that I know from high school, and it appears that no one else is even aware of this word’s existence, let alone its meaning. The word is...
View ArticleLectures and Book Chapters
I’ve had a busy and eventful week, and right now appears to be about the only spare time I’ve had. I attended the Australian Languages Workshop last weekend at Kioloa on the NSW south coast, an outpost...
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The Wagiman Electronic Dictionary
Cross-posted at pfed.info. Last week, I undertook a brief fieldtrip to Pine Creek and Kybrook Farm, Northern Territory, to present the completed Wagiman Electronic Dictionary to the Wagiman community....
View ArticleGoogleganger: Word of the Year?
I read today that Macquarie Dictionary have named their Word of the Year for 2010: Googleganger. The word is immediately understandable; a googleganger is someone that has the same name as you, whom...
View ArticleTweemo
Just saw this word on an online forum and was so impressed, I thought I’d share it with the blogosphere: Tweemo: n. derog. Of or pertaining to Twitter and Emos, i.e., immature and whiny. Eg: Walking...
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