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We could add all of these dialects to the bingo grid and use at our next staff development workshops?!?! ________________________________ From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Baume Sent: 26 October 2005 11:19 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Adademic English Dialects Wonderful! Also ACAB*LL*CKS, the academic dialect so nonsensical and cowardly that it dare not speak its name And of course SEDAN, the dialect that transports staff and educational developers in such style David +++++ In a message dated 25/10/2005 21:44:20 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Perhaps one of the reasons that in UK Higher Education 'Academic' English has become so important is that we all seem to be required to speak various dialects of this to survive! It may be helpful to explain some of these dialects. BIDSPEAK: a dialect used to gain funding, believed to have originated in business schools or management centres. QAAHILI: a dialect used in interactions (interventions?) with the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. HEACADEMESE: a recently formulated dialect of Academese, but where it seems necessary to include the word 'scholarship' in most sentences (taking due care not to be particularly clear exactly what may be meant by 'scholarship' in any given context). ASSESSPERANTO: the term is believed to have been coined by James Wisdom, for the dialect which needs to be learned by students if they are to succeed in assessments - particularly those requiring advanced competences with academic English. ACCREDITIONIAN: a more advanced form of the above, designed to ensure that teaching staff continue to develop their academic English. WIPARTESE: a dialect used to wax lyrical about how different the student population is as it nears 50% of the 18-30 age group, and to express what a good thing this must be. SENDANIAN: a special dialect for discussions of how unlawful it has become not to cater for special educational needs and disabilities. I hope that the recognition of these dialects of Academic English may help to simplify the task of using the right one in the right circumstances. I hope even more that readers of this missive may share some further dialects they have discovered or invented. Phil Race www.phil-race.com David Baume PhD FSEDA 64 Princess House 144 Princess Street MANCHESTER M1 7EP Phone 0161 273 6454 Mobile 07747 045 931 E-mail [log in to unmask]