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LearnedHand

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9. How in the world get you get to violence from ELL now being ENL?

Thu Jan 11, 2024, 09:18 PM

Jan 2024

Good grief. Language is always evolving to reflect new information, new technology, new complexity. Language is a fluid as people are, and it's a beautiful thing that it can stretch and grow. I mean, we're not still calling cars "horseless carriages" because we no longer frame transportation as occurring with or without horses. "ENL" simply reframes the blinkered "ESL" to acknowledge that new English learners may know more than one other language.

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I just learned a term that is new to me: English as a New Language/ENL [View all] Stinky The Clown Jan 2024 OP

The euphemisms are coming faster. Igel Jan 2024 #1

How is this a euphemism? Euphemism for what? WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2024 #3

How in the world get you get to violence from ELL now being ENL? LearnedHand Jan 2024 #9

Post removed Post removed Jan 2024 #2

What language is being controlled here? WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2024 #4

Constantly renaming things isn't just a liberal characteristic Bucky Jan 2024 #5

Liberals? MineralMan Jan 2024 #6

Depending on where the students are from, they may already be multilingual RockRaven Jan 2024 #7

Non-Americans tend to be more likely to be multilingual Retrograde Jan 2024 #10

Well I think the jury is still out on that one as there is already an ENL GreenWave Jan 2024 #8