Monthly Archives: January 2019

How well do court recorders transcribe AAVE?

Posted on January 30, 2019 by brinton

A study in Philadelphia has shown that the speech of AAVE speakers is very often mistranscribed in court. For example, “The cop partner been got transferred”, where “been” indicates an event in the distant past, was transcribed “The cop partner, … Continue reading →

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Did women illuminate medieval manuscripts?

Posted on January 11, 2019 by arnovick

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/gemstone-crystals-found-in-teeth-of-11th-century-nun-sheds-light-on-womens-role-in-creating-medieval-religious-texts

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Why do people say “had saw” instead of “had seen”?

Posted on January 4, 2019 by brinton

This article takes a balanced view of this grammatical “mistake”: https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/12/05/why-do-i-really-really-want-to-say-had-went/?fbclid=IwAR3UHeRFyAemzFEcdlDP-5zgA8q-K5Pz6hiN2SQF0VtF4pWfSPRMpic8bRw

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