Grant is one of the few people still living to have heard native speakers of his tribe's Wiradjuri language, having been brought up as a child around native speakers of his grandfather's generation, notably his grandfather.
He has been crucial to the reconstruction of the Wiradjuri language along with Dr John Rudder, with whom he travels among the Wiradjuri people, teaching their language. From a small base of anthropological records, they have rebuilt the spoken and sung language among both urban and rural tribal members. In 2006 this work was recognised with the Deadly award of Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education.
Personal
Grant is married to Elizabeth (Betty) Grant (née Cameron) who is a Kamilaroi descendent who grew up in the small northern NSW town of Coonabarabran. She is a published author; My Humpy Home is a collection of poems and short stories relating her early years.
The suffix-stan (Persian:ـستان-stān) is Persian for "place of" or "country".
It appears in the names of many regions, especially in Central and South Asia, but also in the Caucasus and Russia; areas where significant amounts of Persian culture were spread or adopted.
The suffix is also used more generally, as in Persian and Urdu rigestân (ریگستان) "place of sand, desert", Pakistan "land of the pure", Hindustan "land of the Hindus", golestan (گلستان) "place of flowers, garden", etc.
Etymology and cognates
The suffix, originally an independent noun, but evolving into a suffix by virtue of appearing frequently as the last part in nominal compounds, is of Indo-Iranian and ultimately Indo-European origin: It is cognate with Sanskritsthā́na (Devanagari: स्थान[st̪ʰaːna]), meaning "the act of standing", from which many further meanings derive, including "place, location", and ultimately descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sthāna-.
The Proto-Indo-European root from which this noun is derived is *steh₂- (older reconstruction *stā-) "to stand" (or "to stand up, to step (somewhere), to position (oneself)"), which is also the source of English to stand, Latin stāre, and Ancient Greek histamai (ἵσταμαι), all meaning "to stand" and Russianстан (stan, meaning "settlement" or "semi-permanent camp"). In Polish and Ukrainian, stan means "state" or "condition", while in Serbo-Croatian it translates as "apartment" (a Slovenian word "stanovanje" means apartment or other closed space of living is an obvious derivative of stan) in its modern usage, while its original meaning was "habitat". In Czech and Slovak, it means "tent" or, in military terms, "headquarters". Also in Germanic languages, the root can be found in Stand ("place, location"), and in Stadt (German), stad/sted (Dutch/Scandinavian), stêd (West Frisian) and stead (English), all meaning either "place" or "city". The suffix -stan is analogous to the suffix -land, present in many country and location names.
Stan! (born Steven Brown on 16 October 1964 in Brooklyn, New York City, United States) is an American author, cartoonist, and game designer. He is sometimes credited as Stan Brown.
Biography
Brown was born and grew up on Long Island and attended Binghamton University. Brown began publishing fiction, cartoons, and games professionally in 1982, usually under the pen name "Stan!." He is the author of numerous short stories, novels, roleplaying products, comics and cartoons. He has served as a graphic designer and line editor for West End Games; an editor and game designer for TSR, Inc.; and an author, senior game designer, and creative director for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. He has also been the creative content manager at Upper Deck Entertainment.
In 2007, R. Hyrum Savage formed a subsidiary of his OtherWorld Creations with Brown called Super Genius Games. He has also worked as the creative content manager for Upper Deck Entertainment, and the creative vice president for The Game Mechanics, Inc. Brown is the Creative Director for Super Genius Games. He co-founded The Game Mechanics with JD Wiker, Marc Schmalz, and Rich Redman.
Journalist and former Q&A host StanGrant has taken shots at US political elites and coverage of the presidential election ... were the answer to the “existential crisis of America”, Grant added.
Antoinette Lattouf was sacked by ABC, FairWorkCommission finds. Read more ...Last year Indigenous journalist StanGrant resigned from the ABC, several months after receiving “grotesque racist abuse” after he spoke on the King’s coronation coverage ... .
It has revived concerns about how it treats diverse staff, after an ugly saga last year in which pioneering Aboriginal journalist StanGrant quit over what he called a failure to protect him from racist attacks.
'I knew straight away,' he told ABC journalist StanGrant in 2020 ... On April 24 last year, rugby league journalist Danny Weidler sent shockwaves through the footy community when he revealed the couple had separated in January - four months earlier.
A man who admitted harassing ex-ABC journalist StanGrant online has been ordered not to contact the reporter after having a charge dropped on mental health grounds.
The man accused of making threats against former ABC journalist StanGrant on social media has his charge dismissed on mental health grounds, as he hopes an in-person meeting with the veteran reporter will be made possible ... .
Tracey Holmes has revealed why she is departing the ABC months after her high-profile husband StanGrant left the national broadcaster ... Stan Grant accused the ABC of lacking 'moral courage' in defending him against racism.
Journalist and academic StanGrant has slammed Australia as “a cold-hearted no of a country so comfortable it need not care” over the referendum result as he criticised the small-target strategy of Yes campaigners ....
