Tag: linguistics
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August 31, 2008 06:45 PM EDT --
Words, words, words. They can be soothing, melodious, enlightening, and welcomed. Or they can be barbaric, and pernicious, whether oral or written.
I have compiled a short list of words . . .
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September 09, 2006 07:43 PM EDT --
This urban story is about a dignitary visiting Cambodia who wanted to learn a couple of sentences in Khmer to say during his speech.
He wanted to say, in Khmer:
"I am looking forward to helping . . .
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March 05, 2007 12:03 PM EST --
It seems as though many are being very critical of the fact that Hillary Clinton adopted a southern drawl during a speech at an African American church in the south. In fact, it’s become the topic . . .
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June 11, 2009 11:36 AM EDT --
author: Bill Bryson
Another book I am reading referred to this one. Knowing I had it in the house, I decided to read it also.
I have finished it first as it reads as a story of the English . . .
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July 11, 2009 07:26 AM EDT --
author: Oliver Sacks
This book, about American Sign Language and the culture of the Deaf was fascinating to me on various levels.
First, it's written by an author whom I respect.
Second, it's . . .
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September 02, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
This article was planned—and it was supposed to have that exact title—many months ago, when a Gather member, Ann Weaver Hart, published one of hers in which she mentioned the word Caesar . . .
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September 08, 2008 04:18 PM EDT --
Consider a long sequence of randomly chosen words,
punctuated by periods, exclamation points, and
question marks. Then consider a poem, a play, or a
conversation between two lovers. What's the . . .
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December 27, 2006 01:03 AM EST --
I have created a new group dedicated to language and "linguistic matters". Check it out here and join if you like. :-)
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January 26, 2008 11:30 AM EST --
Glottal stops and labial fricatives and Grimm's law. Jeez, no wonder more people aren't into linguistics! Why does everything have to be made more complicated than it needs to be . . .
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December 07, 2008 06:26 PM EST --
A couple decades ago, I came across a book called Polyglot in the Montrose, Colorado library, and I have ever since amused myself with the way languages fit together. The dictionary defines . . .
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July 10, 2006 01:18 AM EDT --
J.P Mallory posits in his book, "In Search of the Indo-Europeans," that Common Slavic, sometime between 400-900 AD broke into several related but distinct variants, most notably Eastern Slavic, . . .
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March 10, 2007 01:55 PM EST --
The word "doable" has struggled for acceptance in the more English-Majorly circles. Attaching the suffix "able" to a word ending in an "o" creates an odd bipthong, and . . .
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November 22, 2007 03:00 AM EST --
The American Dialect Society is now accepting nominations for the 2007 "Word of the Year."
Their explanation:
Word of the Year is interpreted in its broader sense as “vocabulary . . .
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January 13, 2008 04:12 AM EST --
After nominations from the public, the American Dialect Society voted last week to choose their 2007 Word of the Year .
The Winner is : subprime : "an adjective used to describe a risky . . .
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June 12, 2007 07:03 PM EDT --
This is a late notice, but wordsmith.org (perhaps best known for their A.Word.A.Day newsletter) is hosting a chat this evening at 6 pm Pacific time (9 pm Eastern, GMT-7) with Anne Curzan, a professor of . . .
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March 06, 2008 11:31 PM EST --
Much as I find tidbits like this interesting, It reminds me why linguistics was my minor and not my major. That is: would it pay the rent.
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Campbell: "The morphological . . .
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January 27, 2008 07:54 PM EST --
Yesterday, I did a post Comparative Linguistics for Beginners . It ended with a little exercise, and I said I would post the answers. You were to find the words in column . . .
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December 02, 2009 11:45 AM EST --
Since there isn't much going on in the linguistics group, I thought I'd share something that came through my inbox recently.
The Visual Thesaurus staff (and isn't that a fabulous resource!) have an . . .
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August 15, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
NYC is VERY cosmopolitan! People come here from all over the world - to visit, to work, to study.
The other day I was in midtown Manhattan at an eatery. Three VERY Asian looking young people . . .
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May 05, 2007 01:45 AM EDT --
Compared to other languages, English is amazingly creative with collective nouns for groups of animals, and efforts abound to make up funny ones for groups of people (and objects.)
Another name for . . .
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