Past Programs
Language and Linguistics - 2008
Grammar
18/06/2008
Mistakes in a grammar guide produced by the English Teachers Association of Queensland started the quarrel: and now establishing the right approach to grammar is exciting teachers and academics.
Is learning about formal grammar essential to becoming good writers and communicators? Or is it more important to develop a feeling for language that can be applied in different contexts?
Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year
07/02/2008
This week the Macquarie Dictionary announced the winner of its WOTY (Word of the Year) competition 2007. An expert panel declared it to be 'pod slurping' - a noun to describe the downloading of large amounts of data to an MP3 player or a memory stick. Another favourite was 'infomania' to describe the almost pathological immediacy of attending to incoming messages on email, text and all kinds of other gadgets infomaniacs may have in their cache. What do you think? Do we need more new words and perhaps you've got your own new word?
