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House of Language
A language museum might open in London during the 2012 Olympics:
Linguist David Crystal said the interactive museum would draw on high-tech gadgets and serious scholarship to boost people's interest in languages -- both foreign and their own -- and would be the first of its kind in Britain. ..."The world needs houses of language for the same reason that it needs expositions of all kinds. to satisfy our insatiable curiosity about who we are, and where we have come from," Crystal said. The British Council and the government's National Centre for Languages, have both given their backing to the museum. It will feature machines that show what happens to the brain during speaking and will be able to predict how your voice will change over time. (ELHAM)
May 24, 2007
