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The first large-scale study of the Urban Dictionary provides unique insights into the way our language is evolving. 
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Geelong superstar Patrick Dangerfield will be sidelined “indefinitely” after being sent in for surgery on a syndesmosis tear in his right ankle.
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26 April 2021 Lingofile: Where better to find examples of rhetorical flourish than in sports commentary! This week’s worksheet looks at a piece from the AFL brimming with colourful descriptions and jargon, all contributing to an exercise on register. Check in to the Members section of our website to download the worksheet.
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10 February 2021 Lingofile: this is a reference for this week's worksheet, which you can download from the Members area of our website. Sign in or sign up - no cost!
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The care we take to get names right is increasingly under scrutiny as Kamala Harris takes office. What message do we send when we get them wrong?
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Social media users are divided on whether or not they support the rebranding of the famous Australian Coon cheese to its new name, Cheer.
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This issue arose last year 2020, and the conclusion is now here - for the cheese, at least.
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Professional communication has traditionally been buttoned up. But a new generation entering the workforce may help us relax – at least a little.
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Terrific article that touches on code-switching, informal-formal discourse, context, purpose.
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From 'common scolds' to feminist reclamation: the fraught history of women and swearing in Australia
Long regarded as guardians of morality, women who swore were often policed and punished. But whether protesting or parodying, they have used bad language in creative ways.
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Women swearing? Goodness!
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How we came to represent (through inky marks) the vagaries of the mind, inflections of the voice, and intensity of feeling
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A very readable article and as a bonus - there is an audio reading of the whole piece on the website.
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Age readers have their say on Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's calls for Dan Andrews to provide a road map out of lockdown.
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1 September 2020 Lingofile for EL students. This week's worksheet has two texts on the same topic for analysis. One is a Twitter post showing Officer Luke Cornelius criticising protesters against the Victorian state of lockdown. The other text is a letter to the media. Scroll down to find the letter, and the link to the Twitter recording is provided in the worksheet. You will find the worksheet in the Members area of our website, as usual! If your email address has changed from @edumail to @education, take a moment to update your login details while you are in the Members area.
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“We believe we all share in the responsibility to eliminate racism in all its forms and we feel this is an important step we must take to uphold this commitment,” the company said in a statement.
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4 August 2020 Lingofile worksheet for VCE EL students. This is the article - get the worksheet in the Members area of our website!
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Ending an email with ‘All the best’ or ‘Regards’ seems too detached right now. What can we say that seems genuine and compassionate?
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16th June LIngofile for VCE English Language: How to get the tone right in emails during the current health crisis? This article explores some possibilities and highlights what our student linguists know – context, interlocutors and careful choice of language are of fundamental importance to successful communication. The worksheet is available in the Members area of our website.
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December 3, 2020 12:26 PM
Due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic it has been proved that emailing has increased for working life, but for nobody is a secret that the way of adressing people in email has always been a challenge. This BBC post is an overview of how etiquette counselors are seeing emaling and formal salutations when acknowledging people who is going through difficult situations.
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'Karen' has been on everyone's lips lately, and boomers are mad. Internet users have defended the meme as an attack on entitlement, not an attack on women.
BooBook Education's insight:
3 June 2020 Lingofile: Who is Karen? Is it an empowering or an insulting epithet? What are the changes in connotation the term has undergone over the past 4 years? This week's worksheet tackles this topic, and provides great material for students' exam essays. You can find the worksheet in the Members area of our website.
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Victorian Liberal candidate Jack Lyons, a former publican who was standing for the marginal seat of Bendigo West in the upcoming state election, has dropped out of the race, after his deeply unfortunate use of social media came to light. Earlier today, The Herald Sun alerted party officials to hundreds of racist, sexist and otherwise off-colour posts …
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21.5.20 Lightning Talks worksheet - cultural context.
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“Can you imagine any other game where you can score points and win by using a racial epithet?” said Mattel’s head of global games. “It’s long overdue.”
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4 May 2021 Lingofile: Scrabble game maker Mattel is the latest company to make changes to its use of language, in an attempt to reflect modern attitudes and norms. This week’s worksheet takes a look at the debate around this latest move – is it cancel culture, political correctness gone mad, or just a sign of social expectations about language? Get the worksheet in the Members area of our website.
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10 February 2021 Lingofile: this is a reference for this week's worksheet, which you can download from the Members area of our website. Sign in or sign up - no cost!
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A phrase that was broadly used in 2016 when Donald Trump first took hold of the White House has been crowned the “word of the decade”.
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10 February 2021Lingofile: This is one of the articles on which this week's worksheet is based.
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The Netflix series traces the history of expletives with sensitivity and nuance, but if you just want to hear Cage scream the F-word, it’s got you covered.
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This could be interesting.
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Whether you love, hate or are ambivalent about vocal fry, University of Melbourne linguists and voice experts can explain its origins and place in society
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A good article for generating class discussion.
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For decades, forensic linguists have helped crack cases involving false author attribution, masked voices, false confessions in criminal cases and copyright disputes.
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Fascinating branch of linguistics - a great conversation to have with students.
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We all know what it’s like to have things we don’t want, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. You can’t be polite about this, so be firm
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Politeness and face needs!
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Last year, the Apostrophe Protection Society was disbanded, having supposedly failed in its mission. But what is the correct use of the grammatical mark anyway, asks Helene Schumacher.
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15 September 2020 Lingofile worksheet for EL students. This week we look at the demise of the Apostrophe Protection Society in Britain. You will find the worksheet in the Members area of our website.
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October 25, 2020 5:52 AM
I'm going to use this for my reading extension group, in conjunction with BooBook.
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It would be a travesty if it was supressed for something as trivial and irrelevant to real life as political correctness."
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18.8.20 Lingofile worksheet for English Language students. This article has been doing the rounds recently; it provides some excellent material for linguistic analysis. You will find the worksheet in the Members area of our website.
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What do we mean when we talk about hate speech? Is hate speech against the law? And why is it so controversial?
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21 July 2020 Lingofile: the first worksheet for this term is an informative piece on hate speech/free speech. The worksheet includes some suggested answers and can be downloaded from the BBE website in the Members area.
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Names such as Karen, Becky and Chad have been co-opted to call out social faux pas online. Here’s where they came from — and what the people named before the meme think about their online personas.
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More on Karen and other name memes.
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"The problem that's befallen me today is that some of these tweets have been stripped of all context."
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21.5.20 Lightning Talks worksheet - cultural context.
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Times of crisis have always changed our slang, with the help of a little black humour. Coronavirus is no exception.
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Lingofile 12 May 2020. Language change in a time of pandemic. This popular article posted on our Facebook page yesterday, by Kate Burridge and Howie Manns in The Conversation, now has a worksheet to go with it. You'll find it in the Members area of our website.
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Lingofile worksheet 29 January 2018. You will find the worksheet - a short research activity - in the members area of our website.