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The Sunday Salon: Life in Capsule Form & Review: Language Myths

uenohama wrote 1 hour ago: Sunday, that time of the week where things become introspective, where people knuckle down and get … more →

Tags: Review, Sunday Salon, Language Myths, Nightclubs, Sunday Salon

The Relative Woman

anticliche wrote 13 hours ago: Warning: I’m about to get on my soapbox, so anyone not in the mood for a harangue is advised to chan … more →

Tags: Random Scribbles, Books, Feminism, Literature, Publishing, Titles, Women

plosive

bo wrote 22 hours ago: noun 1. A consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, and t … more →

Tags: Infinite Jest, pg. 183, pg. 82, P

VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE

jscolley wrote 1 day ago: How Does Our Language Shape The Way We Think? By Lera Boroditsky Excerpt: For a long time, the idea … more →

Tags: General, language, Communication

Aspect & Aktionsart: One More Time – Part II1 comment

Mike Aubrey wrote 1 day ago: We began by looking at a couple of quotes from Porter in the Handbook to Exegesis of the New Testame … more →

Tags: Grammar, Greek, Morphology, Semantics

Second Language Acquisition

Mike Aubrey wrote 1 day ago: In light of the relatively recent discussions on the subject on a variety of blogs, I’d like t … more →

Tags: Grammar, language, Language Learning, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax

National Languages Institute

qualitypunk wrote 2 days ago: I have seen recent news items about Canada losing its indigenous languages. It is disturbing that Ca … more →

Tags: Canada, native languages, Policy, Politics

Why and How I want to Measure Language Knowledge Pool Value or LKPV4 comments

Sriram Venkitachalam wrote 2 days ago: What is Language Knowledge Pool: The knowledge in a language and a term I just made up that perhaps … more →

Tags: Babel, BhagwadGita, Economics, Geeta, geetopadesam, german, Greek, gujarati, hindi

Raining Words

kathmanducats wrote 4 days ago: It's raining, it's pouring... The monsoon has finally shown up. And I’m teaching my st … more →

Tags: Daily Life in Kathmandu, Monsoon, rain, Bandh, Parade, WorDs, language, Idioms, English

Greek Word Order and Other Stuff4 comments

Mike Aubrey wrote 4 days ago: Michael Whitenton over at Ecce Homo has linked to a very interesting PDF/power point on word order i … more →

Tags: Books, Grammar, Greek, language, pragmatics, Syntax

The virus of language

Stendhal wrote 4 days ago: Lera Boroditsky has a great (and highly readable!) article in Edge about the effects that language h … more →

Tags: Letters, grammatical gender, language, political language, Thinking

Library Loot7 comments

uenohama wrote 4 days ago: Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the book … more →

Tags: Library Loot, Language Myths, Library Loot

Our Far-Flung Correspondents

nottooshaabi wrote 4 days ago: TBE’s dialectology and Hollywood Correspondent, Propagandin, who doubles as our small-batch ic … more →

Tags: rogue waves, Special Reports

Aspect Theory & Aktionsart Theory One More Time

Mike Aubrey wrote 4 days ago: My readers are probably growing incredibly tired of my writing on this topic. I can’t helpful. I kee … more →

Tags: Grammar, Greek, language, Morphology, Semantics

The Bible and Critical Theory

Celucien Joseph wrote 4 days ago: Roland Boer, Rescuing the Bible: A response Anne Elvey The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2: … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Theory, language, The Bible, The Bible and Critical Theory

2009 BET Awards...Why it will always be BLACK TV/That's the SHIT that got me MAD #41 comment

Steve wrote 5 days ago: See Black people, they are laughing AT YOU, not with you. It's your appearance and the things … more →

Tags: abusive relationships, Advice, Diabolical Haters, Drugs and Drug Usage, Dumb Niggas, Funny Pictures, illicit relationships, Justice System, media & entertainment

I'm Not Just A Member, I'm Also The President

Claire wrote 5 days ago: So here’s the thing, kids. I have, over the years of scratching a path into the dirt on this b … more →

Tags: Book Club, Friends, fun stuff, Ill-conceived schemes, Literature, Relationships, Bilbiophore's Delight, Heathcliff, The Finer Things Club

CCCC, Students' Right to Their Own Language

revolutionlullabye wrote 5 days ago: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Students’ Right to Their Own Language.” … more →

Tags: Research, History, Public, bibliography, language, Diversity, MajorComposition, dialects, respect

John Locke's 'The Epistle to the Reader'

Tanya wrote 6 days ago: From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Halfway through the first paragraph I was thinking tha … more →

Tags: eighteenth century, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Communication, John Locke, reader, Structure


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