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25 May 2018 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, discusses the possible existence of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Babel fish in reality, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “While a translator on par w...
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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks about the Origin of the Word “Factory”
14 May 2018 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about where the word “factory” comes from , in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “Despite Latin origins, the English word can be traced to a 1582 translation...
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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Decodes the Forces Behind the Star Wars’ Exotic Alien Languages
30 April 2018 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, decodes the forces behind the Star Wars’ exotic alien languages, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “Is Yoda actually Hawaiian and are the Ewoks from Tibet? Intergal...