A Church of England bishop has criticised some Christmas carols as nonsense and suggested others exhibit "Victorian behaviour control". For example, in his book, "Why Wish You a Merry Christmas", the Rt Rev Nick Baines, the bishop of Croydon, takes a verse of Once in Royal David's City as an example of a carol with […]
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) have recommended that pupils should learn subjects like history and geography in French to stem the decline of modern foreign languages. They said that students learned languages best in a bi-lingual environment, and schools that teach aspects of mainstream subjects in foreign languages had good results. Actually there's […]
The Shaftesbury Theatre is offering a new device to theatre goers, called Airscript. It enables you to read live captions of a performance in eight different languages. The developers, Cambridge Consultants, hope the handsets will attract more tourists into the theatre. The captions, received over wifi, scroll throughout live performances, you pay £6 to hire […]
More like hide and eek! Hiding Originally uploaded by waɪ.tiː I might have mentioned that I'm shy. This becomes a problem when it's time to take those "I really was here" holiday snaps. "Hide-and-seek" is a game children play, in which someone hides, and has to be found by one or more "seekers".
Hi-Tech firm NEC has invented a pair of specs that can provide subtitles. They look a bit like space-age glasses, but there are no lenses, instead a tiny projector projects images to the user's retina. The idea is to provide real-time translation for conversations between people who speak different languages. It's all very Star Trek […]