Thursday, May 1, 2008

You'll Think What I Want You to Think

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I made a discovery on Netflix recently. The British show Yes, Prime Minister from the early 80s is simply brilliant in its portrayal of th...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

False Friend # 1

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False friend is the linguistic term for a word in another language that looks just like a word in your own, and so you assume it means the s...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Speaking of Propaganda, Comrade . . .

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Periodically if you read the Washington Post (I don't personally, but I like to look at the pictures), you'll see something that loo...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

New Focus

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So at long last, I've realized why I haven't been posting, and what I can do about it. As I have floated from point to point in the...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Most Unread Books Meme

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Meme: The 106 Most Unread Books (according to LibraryThing) (Bold is for books you've read. Italics for books you...
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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...