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silverwebseven
silverwebseven posted a tweet
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #detroit_michigan_united_states #musiclover #b #linguistics #politics
 
Brian C
Brian C posted a blog entry
Amonokerism
The belief that unicorns do not exist. More generally, a form of atheism that considers the proof that a deity exists to be no...
3 days ago Puck | Topics: linguistics, weird words
 
Christopher
Christopher posted a blog entry
Name That Japanese Cover Band
[Photo credit] When one language borrows words from another, the borrowed item undergoes certain changes. For example, a...
3 days ago Speaking Easy | Topics: Japanese, Linguistics
 
JinxiBoo
JinxiBoo posted a blog entry
Can a Double Positive Form a Negative? Linguistic Humor
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a...
 
Soirette
Soirette posted a blog entry
Because the Lord Chamberlain Says So
If I were being criticized, I think I would rather it be for something vulgar, coarse, or tactless than...
 
Katie M
Katie M posted a blog entry
The most complex website about Japan I’ve ever seen
In my daily Japan blog trawl, I’ve come across Néojaponisme many times but for some reason or other never clicked over...
 
<em>larrynissen</em>
larrynissen posted a blog entry
Rocket Spanish – Worth All The Buzz?
What is Exactly Rocket Spanish?And why it’s so dominant when it comes to learning Spanish online?Well, this actually is not...
 
G.Unnikrishna K
G.Unnikrishna K posted a blog entry
A new study sheds light on the origins of language
Harpo Marx via last.fmA new study sheds light on the origins of language // According to new research funded by...
 
Bob
Bob posted a blog entry
Some Interesting Spanish Accents
In this part of California, we get lots of tourists. In addition, there are so many Spanish speakers that one may as well be...
 
loquacious23
loquacious23 posted a blog entry
That's what they said
The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English is a searchable collection of almost 2 million words of transcribed spoken...
 
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Hausar Baka: Videos for Hausa Language
UCLA video/mp3/and pdf printable Hausa language course. The html may be a bit clumsy, but the content is very well done, voicing done by four native speakers in Kano, Nigeria, and it's free. There are 90+ video segments, exercises, scripts, and...
 
loquacious23
loquacious23 posted a blog entry
Dell Hymes, 1927-2009
Dell Hymes, a giant of sociolinguistic theory, has died. "He didn't have much patience for wasting your time in academic...
 
John Samuel
John Samuel posted a blog entry
How to see Real Time Twitter Updates around the World in your local Language?
You can see real time Twitter updates in the Twitter Public Timeline. But while checking the Twitter updates in the Timeline,...
 
Ysabetwordsmith
Ysabetwordsmith posted a blog entry
Book Dreaming
One of my favorite authors is contemplating a new book. There is a post about some of the linguistic and cultural details in...
 
Chris
Chris posted a tweet
@teachernz can't find the Greek root 4 learning. Is there a hastag 4 #linguistics ? Let's find out. Good thing I have hall duty right now
 
_warren
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Factery Labs Makes Other Search Engines Look Incomplete
The fact is, the service can perform on-demand analysis of text behind any set of links. That's what differentiates it from other real-time search engines like OneRiot, which also analyzes the text of pages linked to on networks like Twitter and...
 
AbsolutelyTrue
AbsolutelyTrue posted a tweet
I LOL'd - Telner Tries Teen Linguistics (and infuriates the linguistics expert) http://bit.ly/dAAby @paultelner
 
Transient
Transient posted a blog entry
Do you speak Interan?
I saw a electronic road sign with an emoticon. At first I though it was strange, but upon thinking about why it seemed even...
9 days ago no words | Topics: linguistics
 
<em>tatianaalexandrovna</em>
tatianaalexandrovna bookmarked links
How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow
wiki about how to use english punctuation correctly. Clear explanations.
How to Use Apostrophes - wikiHow
Use of apostrophes and other grammar
youryoure, destupidifying the masses
simple rules about when to use your/you're
 
EKSwitaj
EKSwitaj posted a blog entry
Expectations and Understanding
Having returned to Belfast from the English side of the water, I could write today about the recent right-wing ranting in the...
 
Seger
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A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
"Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for “a clippy bit,” you know exactly what to hand him. GILES TURNBULL surveys a caucus of children."
 
pandammonium
pandammonium posted a tweet
Failing to create a barred i with an acute accent in #LaTeX. Have tried \'\textbari, \'\dlbari; metre pkg is incompatible. #linguistics
 
Olga
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X-ray analyses of speech
two X-ray videos: how people pronounce
 
Dom
Dom posted a blog entry
Better Definitions for Words
in which I present new definitions for old words
 
Geoff - StudentStuff
Geoff - StudentStuff posted a blog entry
A Step Closer To Discovering Our Essential Humanity
What do our words say about us? What can our own languages teach us about our shared humanity and even what it means to be...
13 days ago GlobalShift | Topics: Environment, Just Thinking, News, Amazon
 
Branko
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Mamihlapinatapai
Reč koja se teško može prevesti ;)
 
Christopher
Christopher posted a blog entry
Adults Do Not Learn Languages Just Like Babies
[Photo credit] The affirmative variety of this statement is one of those things I either see suggested, or outright claimed, in...
 
_warren
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BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Horizon, 2009-2010, Why Do We Talk?
Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of his son's first three years in order to...
 
Bryan W
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Geoff - StudentStuff
Geoff - StudentStuff posted a blog entry
Language Sheds Light On Human Nature
To understand language is to understand human nature. Why and how we are able to develop language remains a mystery that, once...
17 days ago GlobalShift | Topics: Animals, Blogs, Environment, People
 
Monnowman
Monnowman posted a blog entry
Phenomenon or phenomena? A guide for Coast to Coast guests
I listen to quite a lot of the UFO/paranormal internet media, including Coast to Coast, The Paracast and Dreamland and have...
18 days ago Monnow Man | Topics: english, language, linguistics, ufos
 
Dom
Dom posted a blog entry
Pussy Voted #24!
in which I update the community on our successful pussy campaign (note that this description may be misleading)
 
Marina
Marina posted a blog entry
El patrimonio lingüístico extranjero en el español del Río de la Plata de Grossman (primera traducción al español )
En el último número de RAHAL, Revista argentina de historiografía (de acceso libre y gratuito), aparece una reseña de El...
 
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El patrimonio lingüístico extranjero en el español del Río de la Plata de Grossman (primera traducción al español )
En el último número de RAHAL, Revista argentina de historiografía (de acceso libre y gratuito), aparece una reseña de El...
 
Welshcakes Limoncello
Welshcakes Limoncello posted a blog entry
NO OMINICCHI IN MY BACK YARD!
This is another of my articles previously published published in Italy Magazine. I think it will interest my readers here.The...
19 days ago Sicily Scene | Topics: linguistics, language, italymag
 
silverwebseven
silverwebseven posted a tweet
Unencyclopedia.....captivating. A somewhat unique article on the ever fascinating subject of linguistics. http://chilp.it/?6108ea
 
Dwight Knoll
Dwight Knoll bookmarked a link
Koinonia: Concordance in 2 Cor 3:5-6 (Monday with Mounce 47)
"It is always amazing how different people can hear the same words with different meanings and connections of ideas. We all have different semantic registers formed by experience; we simply do not hear the same words the same way."
 
Christopher
Christopher posted a blog entry
Yankees Fans, Deixis, and The Canyon of Heroes
[pic] This morning, on my way to work, I learned that you can clear out an entire train with a deictic expression. For...
22 days ago Speaking Easy | Topics: Linguistics, English
 
mangoroni
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Sophistic Definition | Definition of Sophistic at Dictionary.com
Relationship between sophistic and sophisticated is not what you would expect... the pretense is shed
 
Kaiberie
Kaiberie posted a tweet
sitting pouting because my paper on Google Wave and linguistics is falling through because I can't get a wave account :(
 
L-Jay
L-Jay posted a blog entry
How Vikings Changed the English Language: Origin
The origin of Modern Norwegian is fairly straight forward.  One language evolved into another and so forth without too much...
23 days ago My Little Norway | Topics: Living, Germanic, History, Language