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Wolof Phrases: “am”
am – to be, exist, to have; a/an; imperative; or Ndëmm amul. – He said that witchcraft does not exist. Am na ñetti doom. – He has three children. Am sa caabi! – Take you… more →
Janga Wolof
SNOW!
wrote 1 hour ago: Ok, so I started this post thinking that since I was getting back into blogging, it would also be a … more →
The Benefits and Challenges of Bilingualism
wrote 2 hours ago: There was an interesting piece in a recent edition of New Scientist summarising research about some … more →
Language Tree
wrote 12 hours ago: The fact that I find this utterly fascinating is just a further reminder that I definitely want to s … more →
More to the point
wrote 12 hours ago: The last post talked about punto/point, which developed from Vulgar Latin *punctum, the past partici … more →
What's In A Name?
wrote 17 hours ago: So at one point in my life I went to a specialty shop and paid for a snake to live in my house. A wo … more →
The Adjectival Inflection Question
wrote 18 hours ago: There is a strange inflectional morphology in Scottish Gaelic called lenition, where word initial co … more →
Fresh Talk: Basics of a Visual Language
wrote 18 hours ago: (note, click on the closed captioning button (‘cc’) for captions) FYS 1142: Basics of a … more →
Guide Post: Grammar, Linguistics, and Punctuation
wrote 19 hours ago: Above: Omega +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tense: http: … more →
Idiom of the Day
wrote 19 hours ago: Cambridge dictionary defines an Idiom as a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular me … more →
Scotland For the Win
wrote 19 hours ago: Last night, I sent an application for a Scottish scholarship. The legal text in the email signature … more →
Random Thoughts Vol.4: Unfiltered Once Again
wrote 19 hours ago: *I really don’t understand when someone says “ I don’t know what I’m trying to say … more →
The Uphill Climb of Time for the Yupno of Papua New Guinea
wrote 21 hours ago: For many of us, the concept of time is linear. Whether French or Iraqi, the past is referred as behi … more →
Thank you!! ^^
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wrote 1 day ago: Today I was checking my mail box when I came across a mail that surprised me~ I was really surprised … more →
Immerse Yourself
wrote 1 day ago: This is going to be a completely non-Scottish Gaelic related post. I know, both shocking and disappo … more →
Foreign languages and close reading
wrote 1 day ago: In my experience, there is no other reading than close reading when reading in a foreign language. T … more →
Time is not Tense. Time is not Aspect. But both are Temporal
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wrote 1 day ago: This started as a comment, responding the an observation made by Rod Decker and grew too long, so I … more →
Submit to The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs
wrote 1 day ago: When three heads are put together, the results can be shockingly revelatory. Charles Clay Doyle, Wol … more →
Data Journalism, like photography, "involves selection, filtering, framing, composition and emphasis"
wrote 1 day ago: Beautiful: “Creating a good piece of data journalism or a good data-driven app is often more l … more →
Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC)
wrote 1 day ago: I was very fortunate to be able to attend the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) 2012 … more →
