writer, linguist, migrant, dad, cyclist, cook. affiliated with the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University.
my book about first and last words, Bye Bye I Love You, comes out in February 2025. preorders at https://bit.ly/4dIfTFc
he/him. antifascist
www.michaelerard.com
Great new story from the Climate Justice Fellows at @globalvoices:
"Climate finance has become a global arena of influence. China, now the world’s leading supplier of solar panels, batteries, and hydropower engineering, is increasingly central to this story. In South Asia, the question is not only whether climate finance will arrive, but who defines the terms."
My charity @ProtectEarthUK is five years old this week.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
- Working on 100 sites across England, Wales, and Scotland.
- Never sold a single carbon credit to anyone.
#biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #AncientWoodland
World’s Oldest Song Is 3,400 Years Old and You Can Listen to It Today
By Livia Pereira
https://mymodernmet.com/hurrian-hymn-oldest-song-world/
More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs
Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).
What do you want your last words to be?
Or is there another way to think about it? A chat with @MichaelErard author of "Bye Bye I Love You".
Hear the full episode on your podcast app, or here:
https://becauselanguage.com/114-bye-bye-i-love-you/
Swear words disable Google's A.I. Overview!
Plus spaghetti.
From upcoming episode 114: Bye Bye I Love You (with Michael Erard @MichaelErard)
Thanks to the Last Words project, a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Heroes of the Resistance remembrance association & volunteers, letters written by Belgian resistance fighters to their loved ones before the Nazis murdered them have surfaced.
"There is something intuitively palliative about end-of-life profanity."
John Kelly on sweary first and last words in @MichaelErard's new book, "Bye Bye I Love You"
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/swearing-first-words-last-words-michael-erard-bye-bye-i-love-you/
#language #swearing #books #linguistics #profanity #StrongLanguage
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