[Multilingual Monday] Grammatical Gender

Today the topic is grammatical gender. If you've ever studied a language like German, Russian, or Spanish, you know about grammatical gender. While, in English, we think of everything as "it" except for living beings (which then become "he" or "she"), in several languages like Spanish your only choices are é and ella , or "he" and "she". This means, then, that everything is assigned a gender ...

Writing and Fandom Resources List

So here we go...the giant list of writing and fandom meta. This list is not comprehensive. It's intended for people who are looking for meta on a specific topic (point of view, formatting fic, etc.). It's collected from many sources (given at the end), my own links, and some delicious and Google searches. I included things I thought were relevant to AI fandom and which were, in my opinion, ...

вчерась вспомнил в разговоре старую хохму про Hottentotenmutter и освежил в памяти лекции о немецком языке Марка Твена. доччегоже диковато и странно понимать, что - говоря строго о жанре - то, чем товарищ Твен тогда занимался на публичных платных и благотворительных концертах, банкетах разных обществ и просто на тиятре перед пиесами, в настоящее время исполняется дружным коллективом под ...

Haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein.

 "The Awful German Language", by Mark Twain. A great read that always makes me smile. www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html  It is pretty much a given that I'm going to be moving out to St. John's, the only question is "When?".  With any luck, it will be fairly soon - I would like to be settled and to have a job by the time university starts.   Balancing a job and uni will mean less time...

Tip of the hat to the incomparable Mark Twain

Enjoy.

daily mutterings

... they pulled some stigma out too, or is that too much.. # 19:04 I'm ruining all of my best feet. # 19:18 I hereby pronounce my love for Mark Twain: www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html # 19:19 @ kimberleecline yea for real life! will you come visit me too!!?? # 21:51 Microsoft xbox live is banning lesbian's. No wonder I don't play xbox! tinyurl.com/cc48g8 # ...

[Fanfic] Sprachlos

Title: Sprachlos Author/Artist: Me Character(s) or Pairing(s): Germany, America Rating: PG-13 Warnings: LANGUAGE GEEKERY, and questions perhaps best left unasked. Summary: Something very, very silly that I could not for the life of me get out of my head. You may all thank sora_ko for this. "America," said Germany, just as soon as he'd managed to keep from choking on his coffee. He ...

Thank you Mark Twain!

 I'd like to take this time to thank Mark Twain for writing about all of the complications of the german language in a humorous way. Danke mein Freund. http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html

Friday links

I've never used my LJ much as a link-dump ("I have to go dump a link" sounds thoroughly disgusting), but I have thousands of these things hanging around on my Stumbleupon page and never seem to share them with anyone else, so here goes: Linguistics: Singular 'their' in Jane Austen : The fight against pedantry and prescriptivism in linguistic usage goes ever on. Comics: Law & Order & Batman ...

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... сами, немецкий язык - довольно легкий и пpостой. Стоит всего лишь им заинтеpесоваться." Eще: The Awful German Language by Mark Twain На английском / Auf Englisch: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html На немецком / Auf Deutsch: http://www.alvit.de/vf/de/mark-twain-die-schreckliche-deutsche-sprache.php На русском / Auf Russisch: http://www.lib.ru/INPROZ/MARKTWAIN/r_deitch.txt