Tuesday, August 30, 2005

utrum malum sit animalum domesticarum electronicer recordare?

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Unlocked Wordhoard has the following loaded discussion topic: Pet Blogging: Evil, or Just Misguided? Imagine my surprise when I found the...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

OT - survey meme

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[Rare Off Topic Post] I've decided to reply to a sort of blog-version of one of those chain-email personality tests, mainly I suppose be...
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Monday, August 22, 2005

Long Lost Evil Twin Contest

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One of the comments on the discussion of convergent etymologies at Tenser, said the Tensor (see below) got me thinking. The comment, by Q...
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Long Lost Word-Relatives

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There’s a totally fascinating and fun little exercise posted over at Tenser, said the Tensor , and I can’t wait to see what people post in ...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

NYT's Law of Non-Metavulgarization

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This post over at Language Log is a good follow-up to gaetanus' Law of Vulgarization below. Apparently, avoiding using certain words ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Cinewulf

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That is, cinematic depictions of Beowulf. Dr. Scott Nokes picked up on the Lambert post below and further made note of this version of B...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Hwæt! A movie review!

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There is a brilliant, er, "translation" of select passages of Beowulf in this review of the Christopher Lambert movie Beowulf . ...

I got pie

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Mmmm... agapai ! Thanks to how my friends and I in college used to add unspoken "contexts" to words, I now always a) think of pie ...
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Monday, August 8, 2005

Twisting Words

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Several years ago I read in a book on JRR Tolkien by Tom Shippey about a set of words with widely varying definitions but all of whom had or...
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Friday, August 5, 2005

Taking apart words, or taking words apart?

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So my friend gaetanus and I were in a bar the other night, drinking beer, discussing Germanic and Semitic linguistic patterns, and studying ...
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