Archive for November, 2008
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
On Tour
I’ve been back in Sydney for almost a week now, having been in Melbourne before that to attend the University of Melbourne Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Postgraduates Conference, where I presented the Kaurna Electronic Dictionary1 to a sell-out crowd. It was the final leg of an epic, two part world wind whirlwind tour that began [...]
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
One down, one to go
I didn’t get a chance to post this yesterday as I was too busy after the conference having dinner and ‘sampling’ New Zealand’s finest Monteith’s beers1, but I think the presentation was mostly a success. I probably should have refined it a little more on Thursday night instead of heading to the pub and, yes, [...]
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Tales from across the ditch
I’m sneakily writing this during afternoon tea of the first day of Australex on the lectern’s computer, which has an unrestricted internet connection, because I just heard a great New Zealandism that I thought I’d share. The talk was by Tony Deverson from the University of Canterbury, talking about creating a dictionary of New Zealandisms [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
On the conference circuit
Furthermore to presenting the Kaurna electronic dictionaries at Australex next week, we’ve been invited to give a talk at the University of Melbourne Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 2008, held November 21-22. It’s a great excuse for me to finally visit Melbourne for the first time in… about 13 years. Then, this morning, we [...]
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
How do I look?
I’ve decided I need a change on this blog, perhaps something a touch more professional, so I’ve begun using a theme that’s a bit less colourful, a bit more minimalist, and so on. I have to tinker a little bit with the css stylesheets to get it displaying how I like, so ignore little things [...]
