About Face: In the Echo(less) Chamber of Emojis
T. CHASE MEACHAM The hottest new trend in tech is messaging — chatting, with words or pictures or video, within the tidy walled gardens of an ever-expanding number of apps…
Issue.05
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Identity Crisis: A Discussion on Play Translation
TENAYA CAMPBELL Source: Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr Translation is about as old as written language and has been causing problems ever since. According to the Oxford Companion to the English…
Interview with Marc Okrand
SWEDIAN LIE In this issue we talk to American linguist Marc Okrand, an expert in dead American-Indian languages and famed for creating the Klingon language for the Star Trek series…
“Speak ‘Friend’ and Enter”: Language as Gateway to Fictional Worlds
DANNY RIVERA Are you a fan of Star Wars? Are you a fan of The Lord of the Rings? Are you a fan of Harry Potter? Star Trek? Game of…
An Uncommon Tongue: Enacting Nationality through Language
LORRIE DAMERAU Language is more than a means of communication; more than just vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. By combining these sounds and gestures in specific ways, we translate the disconnected…
Performing Latin: A Part for the Ages
JOE MADSEN “That’s Latin, darling. Evidently Mr. Ringo is an educated man. Now I really hate him.” Bold words from the 1993 film Tombstone capture just what Latin means to…
Polyglot: On Multilingualism and Communication
In this issue of SixByEight Press, we’re exploring the theme of ‘Multilingualism’ in the context of how the use of languages (in particular when performing multiple languages at the same…