Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Language of Machiavelli

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I have recently been reading a great translation of Machiavelli's The Prince done by Angelo Codevilla, a professor of international re...
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When Foreign Laws Silence Americans' Speech

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I’m glad to see a couple of important Senators drawing attention to this subject (and I'm proud of my native state of New York for takin...
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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