<div dir="ltr"><div>dave <a href="mailto:sayers@cantab.net">sayers@cantab.net</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hey Dave, way to go by listing my cartoons page and speaking for it. I think is a tremendous sociolinguistic</div><div>resource that is totally ignored most of the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Hal<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:41 AM Dave Sayers <<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello one and all...<br>
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It's that time of year again: the annual recruitment drive for TeachLing, the world's <br>
biggest online community for university linguistics teaching! As the serendipity and <br>
adventure of conference season winds down, as people change jobs (or finally get <br>
jobs), as the ivory tower ushers us back and the lecture halls beckon us into their <br>
warm embrace, now is the time to join our online community. We currently have 793 <br>
members from all over the world, and regular useful discussions about a delightful <br>
diversity of pedagogical topics and subdisciplinary areas! What's not to like??<br>
<br>
As if all this wasn't exciting enough, this year I thought I'd remind everyone of a <br>
resource I put together in 2014, and kept updating regularly since. It's a full list <br>
of all the linguistics-related strips from my favourite web comic, XKCD: <br>
<a href="https://is.gd/p5uFOJ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://is.gd/p5uFOJ</a>. Useful in bringing presentations to life! For other comics <br>
related to linguistics, there's also this page by Hal Schiffman (U Penn): <br>
<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/cartoons/cartoons.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/cartoons/cartoons.html</a>. (Discussions on <br>
TeachLing are usually more academically robust, honest.)<br>
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ANYWAY... down to business: joining TeachLing! Please do join our little community by <br>
adding your email address here: <a href="https://goo.gl/34wVVk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/34wVVk</a>. (People on mobile toys will <br>
need to tap the little pencil icon in the top right, then install the Google Docs app <br>
if it isn't already installed.)<br>
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Feel free to forward this message far and wide, and please share the tweet <br>
announcement too! <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveJSayers/status/1032938278234869761" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DaveJSayers/status/1032938278234869761</a>.<br>
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See you on TeachLing :)<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132<br>
Senior Lecturer, Dept Language & Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, <br>
Finland | <a href="http://www.jyu.fi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.jyu.fi</a><br>
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | <a href="http://www.wiserd.ac.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.wiserd.ac.uk</a><br>
Communications Secretary, BAAL Language Policy group | <a href="http://www.langpol.ac.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.langpol.ac.uk</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>