Lingua Franca
Piers Kelly writes:
I’m on Lingua Franca this Saturday talking about Fully (sic) and why it’s … fully sick (and reading this post). I’m afraid that under pressure I revert to a monotone, like cornered prey trying to blend in with in with the sound of the circling wasps. For best results, I suggest you give it some extra lift by playing some kickin’ electronica in the background.
Fully (sic) has now been going for more than two years! When we first started, we were just as a rag-tag bunch of misfit adventurers, Kevin Rudd was PM and Justin Bieber’s “Baby” was topping the charts.
Our driving motivation was to produce language commentary that was not only fun but rigorous. We had a notion that language ‘news’ might be more than just: ‘Kids, Migrants, Aborigines have Poor Language Skills, Manners’, ‘Last Speaker of Babakiuerian Dies Along With Everything We Know About Trodden Upon Way of Life’, ‘Body Language of Politician Reveals that She Left the Oven On or Plans to Murder Colleagues’, ‘Football Star Apologies for Calling Player a Curmudgeonly Blackguard’ etc, etc, etc.
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Just caught the podcast on my lunchtime walk, and was so inspired by it, I immediately took up the 21 day trial on Crikey just to check out Fully (sic)!
Post think graduand, how kind of you! Luckily, blogs on Crikey are always free, so you’ll still be able to read Fully (sic) when your trial subscription runs out.