Cornish language and its place in British culture

Social media round-up for June 10, 2016

There’s quite a debate brewing about the Cornish language and its place in British culture. We read an argument that it’s essential on The Conversation.
Earth Languages posted this story about the Athens Polytechnic Graffiti and the Subtle Power of Urban Art.
We read on Slator about the HHS OKing machine translation if it’s reviewed by a qualified translator and then post edited if needed.
We learned that a teacher mispronouncing a student’s name can have a lasting impact on PBS.
Savage Chickens contemplated Welsh this week and it’s hilarious.
We read a really interesting story on localization beyond language about, of all things, Walmart’s positioning in China. We all read the whole thing from Chinapost.
Haven’t run across “text expansion” yet? We learned a lot more about it in this article on Business2Community.
This is cool! An extinct language found a new audience at Yale (from Yale’s blog).
Until this week we had never heard the term “franglais” and yet! Here’s a collection of the best franglais words from The Local France.
You might have heard that Facebook introduced something called “DeepText”, which is a neural network which can understand language with near-human accuracy. Hashtag the future is now, right? From Metafilter.
OUP Academic blog had a fascinating look at the history of slang as used by women. Highly recommended reading.
And finally, BBC had this story on the oldest hand-written document in UK history which was found ‘at Roman London dig’.