Saturday, April 29, 2006

Tolkien at the OED

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Just stumbled onto this book, which is going right to the top of my wishlist: The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary ...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

Procrastinator's Respite

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I know you. I know what you're doing. You're half-way through a translation and it's already the day for the Blog Translation ...
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The American Inklings

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For all those in the D.C./Northern Virginia area: ------------------------- Announcing the first meeting of the American Inklings When: W...
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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Gratulerar, Sverige!

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There's a new member of the Swedish orthographic family: It's a W! The Swedish Academy has officially granted the letter W its ow...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Germanic Genealogy #3: Watch!

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Waiting witches keep watch on vigorous vegetables. Well, ok, maybe they don't, but this sentence is interesting nonetheless: All the adj...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Last Call

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Last call for translation for the Blog Translation Carnival this Friday. Post your translations and send me your links in the next couple o...
Friday, April 14, 2006

Cool Quotes #9: For Lange Frigedæg

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For Good Friday ("Long Friday" in OE), here's an excerpt (and loose translation) from the Dream of the Rood. I covered this p...
Monday, April 10, 2006

Cool Quote #8: Like Father Like Son...Not!

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No commentary needed here; just another blunt saga quote on the generation gap. Thorstein, Egil's son, was a very handsome man when he g...
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Sunday, April 9, 2006

A Reminder

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Tents are going up, mead is being stirred, and language barriers are being toppled! Don't forget to be looking out for blogposts to tran...

Germanic Genealogy #2: Ants (and Aunts)

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The modern word ant comes from Old English æmette . With the standard Germanic stress on the first syllable, if you say æmette often enoug...
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