Thursday, November 30, 2006

As if there had been any doubt

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What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Co...
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Monday, November 6, 2006

Two cheers for the new Tolkien Encyclopedia!

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Not three, b/c as Mike Drout relates , plenty of disappointments surround it. Nevertheless, it exists, and there is moderate rejoicing. It...
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Sunday, November 5, 2006

Internets and Englishes, Preciousss

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Lauren over at Polyglot Conspiracy has an interesting post on a NYT Magazine article on the Internet and the Oxford English Dictionary. I...
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Friday, November 3, 2006

Building a Fantasy Language Team

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It's the early middle ages, and you and your friends are putting together your Fantasy Language Teams when a three-way deal starts to su...
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Thursday, November 2, 2006

There are no A's buried in the cemetery

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A little mnemonic device for All Souls' Day. Speaking of mnemonic, here's a root that spans Indo-European. That odd pair of nasal c...
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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