Saturday, September 30, 2006

Cool Quotes #10: How to Read a Saga

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If you've ever been annoyed by a friend who criticizes a book or a movie for not being realistic enough--if the words "Just be quie...
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Friday, September 29, 2006

German is Chic!

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At least, "chic" is German, apparently. I've been periodically picking up the two volumes I have of Bastian Sick's Der Da...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

English: It's In There!

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Looking back at the post I just wrote, my eyes (as always) gravitate toward the foreign words, and my mind (as usual as well) gravitates to ...

Postcasts and Podcards

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Did I get that right? Anyway, I just got a postcard from Winchester from Agent 9, a friend whom I see too infrequently. It's got a pic...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

An Awesome Soccer Side-Effect

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[slightly updated/edited] These two articles, on a side-effect of the World Cup in the homeland I've never seen, heartens me to no end...
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Saturday, July 8, 2006

Simplified Spelling

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From sauvagenoble's post on LingNews.net , I found this story about the ongoing desire to simplify English spelling. Here is an attemp...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Mass Metrics

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[ Update: fixed links] caelestis over at sauvage noble has written a series of posts on the new draft English translation of the Roman Cat...
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Old Germanic Sound Gallery & the Languages of the Franks

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So I finally got myself to record something in six of the old Germanic languages that we have documents in (sorry, I didn't get to Old F...
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Friday, June 16, 2006

GGL Repost: Old English

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Gallery of Germanic Languages: A Look at Old English Old English is probably the most familiar (if any) of the old Germanic languages. Bede ...
Monday, June 12, 2006

GGL Repost: Old Franconian

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Gallery of Germanic Languages: A Look at Old (Low) Franconian The Frankish tribes, and later, the Frankish Empire, spanned across Germany an...
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