... need this information on automatic recall? Is a sudden historicallinguistics emergency going to arise where it is vitallyimportant to .... But I got to thinking--what would constitute a historical linguistics emergency? In what situation might it actually be useful to ... and unvoiced fricatives!" I'm trying to relate historical linguistics to emergency surgery or a rescue operation--any ideas?
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the femalegenitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. (с)Терри наш Пратчетт.
... religions and ninja polar bears alike). Occasionally I write things, and I usuallyupdate fairly frequently. I have an obsession with tags. Things I Am Useful For: I am a massive history/linguistics/politics/geography geek, and will gladly freak out with you over glossy tidbits of information any day of the week. Book recommendations (want something to read? XD). Toy recommendations (need a ...
Tolkien aficionados are aghast that I view his copious appendices to be tiresome and masturbatory, particularly this Elvish language nonsense. Language is a messy, organic affair. Sure, there are certain paths linguistics tend to take, but junk like Elvish and Esperanto lose sight of the reason that language evolves and mutates - it is a tool, its primary meaning and form drawn from how it is ...
... subjective criteria, and I don't like that at all."
The science citation revolution began more than 50 years ago. Eugene Garfield, then a young librarianpursuing a PhD in structural linguistics, started wondering about that most prosaic of bibliographic tools: the footnote. Most people think of footnotes as reaching backward in time to a document's sources. But Garfield realized that they ...
Hi, lovely linguaphiles :) A friend of mine asked me a linguistics realed question, and I'm not entirely sure on the answer myself. I was wondering whether you'd be able to help us decipher exactly what this short passage from a Grammar of Marathi actually means: 'among the systems of intraclausal argument marking, cross-reference by bound pronominals is the most important: prefixes and clitics...
It's been brought to my attention that there are still some poor souls sailing the interwaters who do not know *le gasp* what LOLcats are! *is shocked*Therefore! Ladies and strays! if you happen to be one of those poor souls, behold! Wikipedia says the following: "A lolcat is an image combining a photograph , most frequently of a cat , with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (...
...you when I first realized I needed to let Spock go, it was a gradual accumulation of time. However I can tell you exactly when I knew I loved Spock. I was finishing a large project an upper level linguistics course had given when he came over to my table in the library. He sat down and began to help me piece together the presentation I had, citing that it was only logical that since I was the only...
