{"id":4535,"date":"2020-07-30T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2020-07-30T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:06:32","slug":"cats-cradle-disentangled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2020\/07\/30\/cats-cradle-disentangled\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat&#8217;s Cradle Disentangled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuthanVoices\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4543 size-full\" style=\"border:1px solid #000000;\" title=\"Guthan nan Eilean - Island Voices on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/twitterchannel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/twitterchannel.jpg 1301w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/twitterchannel-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/twitterchannel-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/twitterchannel-768x373.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Island Voices project allows itself some geographical and linguistic latitude on Twitter. This was particularly evident this month with three separate multilingual threads exploring links and languages beyond the Hebrides. For fear of entanglement they&#8217;re collected here to ease reference. If you&#8217;re not a Twitter fan you can just click on the wee bird in the images below and then &#8220;Show this thread&#8221; to access each string independently.<\/p>\n<p>The first (July 15th) recollects posts and recordings documenting the &#8220;Mediating Multilingualism&#8221; project, led by UHI&#8217;s Language Sciences Institute (LSI) with Indian partners, in which Island Voices approaches to community-based video-making are featured.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;D\u00e0 Dh\u00f9thaich, Iomadh C\u00e0nan\u201d. Film goirid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/G%C3%A0idhlig?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#G\u00e0idhlig<\/a> \u00e0s na h-Innseachan, le ceann is earball \u00e0s na h-Eileanan. Sti\u00f9iriche Shoillse <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConchurOG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ConchurOG<\/a> a\u2019 bruidhinn ri Gordon Wells an d\u00e8idh dhaibh cuairt a ghabhail gu \u201cAlba an Ear\u201d ann am Bliadhna nan C\u00e0nan T\u00f9sanach.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P9ySF0s1oW\">https:\/\/t.co\/P9ySF0s1oW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Guthan nan Eilean &#8211; Island Voices (@GuthanVoices) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuthanVoices\/status\/1283412272174563328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The second thread (July 23rd) stays with the LSI, focusing in on its development of a multilingual online presence in support of its international projects. This is exemplified both on its own webpages (in four different languages) and through its experimental use of Clilstore (a platform developed in tandem with Island Voices) with a number of new languages.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">University of the Highlands and Islands Language Sciences Institute running projects from Ireland to India. Quadrilingual webpages &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/English?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#English<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/G%C3%A0idhlig?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#G\u00e0idhlig<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaeilge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gaeilge<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0940<\/a> Any other UK universities with 4 (or more?) languages on their websites? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0MZXvfuXPB\">https:\/\/t.co\/0MZXvfuXPB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Fb0VPqsvh\">pic.twitter.com\/0Fb0VPqsvh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Guthan nan Eilean &#8211; Island Voices (@GuthanVoices) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuthanVoices\/status\/1286231862197747712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And lastly, the third thread (July 27th) uses snatched video of cricket in Queen&#8217;s Park, Glasgow, to introduce a summer reading list, for those with an interest in social history, that travels &#8220;Across Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers&#8221; from &#8220;A School in South Uist&#8221; to &#8220;A Corner of a Foreign Field&#8221; &#8211; with an intriguing link to ship-jumping in London and New York that brings &#8220;St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2 nan G\u00e0idheal&#8221; into a multimodal matrix. There may be more than one way of joining the dots&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sumer is icumen in. The headmaster of A School in South Uist was teaching cricket to young Gaels in the 1890s. It didn&#39;t catch on. Now, agricultural slogs in Baile M\u00f2r nan G\u00e0idheal, with running Urdu commentary, suggest England&#39;s main gift to world culture will nonetheless endure <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mDXLLcXfpq\">pic.twitter.com\/mDXLLcXfpq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Guthan nan Eilean &#8211; Island Voices (@GuthanVoices) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuthanVoices\/status\/1287693430576095232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Island Voices project allows itself some geographical and linguistic latitude on Twitter. This was particularly evident this month with three separate multilingual threads exploring links and languages beyond the Hebrides. For fear of entanglement they&#8217;re collected here to ease reference. If you&#8217;re not a Twitter fan you can just click on the wee bird &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2020\/07\/30\/cats-cradle-disentangled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cat&#8217;s Cradle Disentangled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call","category-community","category-research","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}