Language doesn’t always have to be spoken

Social media round-up for July 15, 2016

The Salem library has been reaching out to kids in multiple languages – this is what engaging a diverse population looks like, nice work! Salem news has the story here.
Language doesn’t always have to be spoken, say we after watching this video of a deaf girl and her deaf puppy. Is someone cutting onions in here?
There was this great interview with Oxford University professor of poetry Simon Armitage on The National. Loved it.
This week we learned that there are some 300 languages that are in danger of extinction in India, which you can read about here on NewsGram. That’s a lot for a country with 800 spoken languages (wow!)
Itchyfeet nailed it this week. Ha! Get out of the way, brain!
Congrats! Japanese and Koreans won this Czech book translation competition. Story from the Prague Daily Monitor.
Quartz had an interesting prediction on EU language post-Brexit: “English is and will be the lingua franca of Europe in spite of Brexit”.
Do you
Use a carriage return
As punctuation?
Babelmag said this week that you’re not alone; it has a legitimate and growing use as punctuation. Read the story in the PFD mag here.
Languages around the globe highlighted some seriously cool writing systems.