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Spelling Changes Your Bio-Logical Make-Up.4 comments

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Stephen Hawkins wants to leave Britain

springhand wrote 1 day ago: Stephen Hawkins wants to quit Britain if the country continues to be apathetic towards higher resear … more »

Tags: Academics, UCL, American, PhD, Britain, clause-internal, Comps, English, Germany

Language and Sounds

tripitika wrote 1 day ago: Sounds are really important in a language. The more people use of a certain speech pattern the more … more »

Tags: language, sounds, tonality

Swamped

J wrote 1 day ago: It could be her new job. It could be the state of her room. It could be the mountain of work teacher … more »

Tags: Summer Schools, Cambridge, Interview, mathematics, Pembroke, St. Catharines, summer, Economics, Genetics

Made-up languages in fantasy writing

Wendy wrote 2 days ago: One good way of showing different cultures in fantasy (or SF) writing is to develop different langua … more »

Tags: Writing tips and techniques, Fiction, writing

Can There Be A Synthesis Between Cultural And Biological Evolution?4 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 days ago: Language is a product of culture. Or is it? Which came first — language or culture? That … more »

Tags: Blog, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolution

Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Phone?

queenmab04 wrote 3 days ago: I don’t like textpeak. There, I said it. I want to go back to writing letters…. becau … more »

Tags: language, Reading, Lingustics, Texting

Dis-entropized: Staying Alive2 comments

almarose wrote 3 days ago: Join now! Find details about this free E-course at Lesson 1. How to Write Poetry and Live Poetically … more »

Tags: Communication, Creative Process, e-Course, Free e-Course, History of the English Language, how to write well, Humor, nature of art, nature of truth

We are the champions, Rawk the Scapegrace-appellation

thaislo wrote 3 days ago: At all costs the Ducks unperceived for neck the Stanley Future tomorrow dark, themselves one and onl … more »

Tags: Happenings, System, Fam-damily, Interior Alignment

Leonardo: L’uomo universale (IV)

oudeis23 wrote 4 days ago: Leonardo’s theory on skin pigmentation, which is actually quite brilliant: « Dei paesi caldi e f … more »

Tags: History, Science, Italy Photography, Leonardo: L'uomo universale, Italian, Latin, Rome, spanish, Leonardo

Day 26 (22.vii.08)1 comment

Marius Ostrowski wrote 4 days ago: Thank goodness for English Language A-level, is all I can say. Without it, I would not be nearly as … more »

Tags: Toronto and East Coast USA 2008, niagara falls, Noam Chomsky, G.A.Cohen, Samuel Scheffler, implicature, Postcards, Agatha Christie

TV ramblings (and some other stuff)4 comments

brooke wrote 4 days ago: I has a sad.  I finished watching Dawson’s Creek season 1 yesterday (well, I finished the act … more »

Tags: Life in Cartoon Motion, Dawson's Creek, Shortland Street

Aspects of Yaghnobi Grammar - Thesis Finished! « The Yaghnobi1 comment

Bahrom wrote 4 days ago: In December of last year I submitted my MA thesis, Aspects of Yaghnobi Grammar to the graduate scho … more »

Tags: Endangered languages, Iranian Languages, language documentation, Yaghnobi, eastern iranian language, M.A. thesis, Phonology, Syntax

Fun with Arabic Roots: Insightful connections

Janey wrote 5 days ago: This is my latest pastime in learning Arabic.  Arabic roots can be reduced down to a 2,3 or 4 lette … more »

Tags: Arabic Roots, Arabic, language, roots

INTERCULTURAL LOVE

sofiabohmer wrote 5 days ago: Compiling my own experience in the subject and my students´, I have learnt -at least- one thing: me … more »

Tags: Advice, Porteñohood, problem, guides, Tourist, Insider, circuit, Recommendation, Tourism

Speaking Digg, Gansta and Pirate.1 comment

Alekos wrote 5 days ago:  Decode Digg speak, take the Gansta Quiz, and talk like a pirate. … more »

Tags: Culture and Events, digg, language, Idioms, Pirate, gansta, Quizz, decoding, Semantics

Genres/Strengthen/Factor/Mode of procedure

thaislo wrote 5 days ago: The send until this years”Fischgaard Flickering Panel Extend” proceed starlessness was a … more »

Tags: Happenings, Media Arts, Heart Disease

Aspects of Yaghnobi Grammar - Thesis Finished!

Bahrom wrote 6 days ago: In December of last year I submitted my thesis on Yaghnobi grammar to the graduate school of the Uni … more »

Tags: Endangered languages, Orthography, Syntax, Tajikistan, Yaghnobi, East Iranian, language documentation, Morphology, morphosyntax

Mali: Langue des Signes Malienne - Projet LaSiMa - Malian sign language1 comment

sociolingo wrote 6 days ago: (Imported from Sociolingo’s Mali blog which is now dormant) Not long ago I did a post on Soci … more »

Tags: African Countries, African linguistics, African education, African languages, African sociolinguistics, Mali, Africa, African sign languages


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