Language

Mae
Arts & Humanities
09.06.2017
Mae and Malynne
By Jeanie Chung

Malynne Sternstein helps create language for the graphic novel Mae.

Orin Hargraves, AB’77
Arts & Humanities
Summer/17
Lexicographer
By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93

(Noun, an author or editor of a dictionary)

Clichés, illustrated
Arts & Humanities
Summer/17
Clichés I have known and loved
By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93

A lexicographer’s favorite clichés (before he grew to hate them).

Arts & Humanities

05.23.2017

Six things you never learned in French class
By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93
Unless you took French at the University of Chicago.
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Arts & Humanities
Spring/17
Lingua franca
By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93

What if you took a language class and actually learned to speak?

Economics & Business

Spring/15

Why words are the new numbers
By Amy Merrick
The coming revolution in data analysis.
Law, Policy & Society

Spring/Summer 2013

The language of sound
By Claire Zulkey
Samantha Fan explores different perspectives through language and music.
Arts & Humanities

07.11.2014

Little scribes
By Kathryn Vandervalk, AB’16
Elementary school children experience the history of language hands-on at the Oriental Institute.
Yiddish poetry
Arts & Humanities

04.21.2014

Five things I learned about Yiddish
By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93
Over one breakfast and two lunches. Es, es!
Arts & Humanities
11.08.2013
Book report
By Chelsea Leu, AB’14

UChicago creative writers offer a few words about reading.

Movie still courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Arts & Humanities

04.22.2013

Colorful language
By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93
Surviving a Hyde Park screening of 42.
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