Wednesday, September 5, 2007

A New One

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Here's one I haven't heard of before: documentation of a Basque-Icelandic pidgin that developed about 400 years ago. Sailors and t...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Linguistic forced adoption

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I wish more linguists were language teachers. In the last couple of years I've done some tutoring in Latin. Part of the program in teac...
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Monday, September 3, 2007

Cool Quotes #11: The Decline of English

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There seems to have been in every period in the past, as there is now, a distinct apprehension in the minds of very many worthy persons that...
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Sunday, September 2, 2007

China Fixes Signs, For Great Justice

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This article is from back in February, but I just came across it while browsing funny signs and bad translations. Apparently the coming of...
Friday, August 31, 2007

Language Stops Plane

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Language Log reports that the mere speaking of Arabic got air passengers suspicious enough to alert authorities to ... the speaking of Arab...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Aryanland

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Reading up on Central Asian history and names and such took me to the word Turan, a vague term used in medieval Persian literature for the...
Friday, August 24, 2007

A Haiku

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New place, web access computer that works again and back to blogging.
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Friday, December 8, 2006

Unlikely Germanic Book Ideas

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Because, you know, books are always my favorite gifts... ;-) Here are some unlikely gift/book ideas from Germanic history. 10. How to Win F...
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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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