Putin in Russian, Mandarin, and English
I'm at Yale University attending a workshop on Tangut. So you ask, "What is 'Tangut'?" Relevant Wikipedia articles: Tangut people, an ancient ethnic group in Northwest China, not Tibetan people....
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Stephen Halliwell’s TLS review of Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire, edited by Paweł Janiszewski, Krystyna Stebnicka, and Elzbieta Szabat, starts with two paragraphs...
View ArticleDecreasing definiteness in crime novels
In a series of posts over the last few years, I've documented gradual declines in the frequency of the English definite determiner "the" in a wide variety of text sources: State of the Union addresses,...
View ArticleUsing Chinese nonstandard characters to talk cute
Nikita Kuzmin told me about a trend among young Chinese to exchange certain characters with other phonetically close characters in their Internet writings, so that the words sound more "cute". Here are...
View Article1/21/18 - frack
To fracture rock surrounding a well to increase the flow of oil or gas. This is accomplished by injecting large amounts of liquid under high pressure into cracks in the rock in order to split them open.
View Article5 Hands-Free Ways to Study Languages While You Work Out
The struggle to balance your language learning time with everything else you do in a day can be a pain in The post 5 Hands-Free Ways to Study Languages While You Work Out appeared first on Languages...
View ArticleZhitkov and the Modernist Novel.
I’m finally reading Boris Zhitkov‘s Виктор Вавич (Viktor Vavich), and my thoughts on reading the opening paragraphs were as follows, in this order: “No wonder Pasternak liked it; this is a modernist...
View ArticleThe quasi-compositionality of English compounds
Today's Frazz: Snowpants exemplifies a common case, where both elements of the compound retain their basic meaning, but the combination has an idiomatic aspect — the meaning is not entirely...
View ArticleCABALLO vs CABALLERO: An Embarrassing Spanish Speaking Lesson
In Spanish, a lot of words may be altered slightly with diminutives or colloquialisms and still mean more or less the same thing, for example with “galleta” (cookie/cracker) and “galletita” (little...
View ArticleFurther evidence of mixed script writing in Chinese
Michael Cannings relayed this tweet by Dave Flynn: When did replacing 很 with "hen" become a thing in Taiwan? pic.twitter.com/IHX8b5EWLZ — Dave Flynn 茶米 (@DaveFlynn) January 18, 2018 The writing in the...
View ArticleLinguistic Olfaction.
Josh Gabbatiss reports for The Independent on a study, “Hunter-Gatherer Olfaction Is Special” by Asifa Majid and Nicole Kruspe in Current Biology, in which (to quote the subhead) “Scientists use...
View ArticleProtected: How to Watch and Download Real, Live Japanese TV: Goodbye MOJI,...
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View ArticleWatch: A Parent's Campaign to Break Down Language Barriers for ELL Families
When Teresa Garcia's children started school, she often felt lost in translation. Her campaign for improved language services helped break down barriers for English-learner families.
View Articletapestry
To mark a visit to the UK, the French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France is willing to lend the Bayeux tapestry to the UK, the first time the precious artefact will have left home in...
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tapestry
To mark a visit to the UK, the French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France is willing to lend the Bayeux tapestry to the UK, the first time the precious artefact will have left home in...
View ArticleCelebrating the thesaurus
Yesterday (January 18th) was National Thesaurus Day, marking the birth in 1779 of Peter Mark Roget, the author of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a collection of words classified by meaning...
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Celebrating the thesaurus
Yesterday (January 18th) was National Thesaurus Day, marking the birth in 1779 of Peter Mark Roget, the author of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a collection of words classified by meaning...
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the limelight
Definition a situation in which you are getting a lot of interest and attention from the newspapers, television, etc. Origin and usage The term the limelight has an unusual history. In the early 1800s,...
View Articlethe limelight
Definition a situation in which you are getting a lot of interest and attention from the newspapers, television, etc. Origin and usage The term the limelight has an unusual history. In the early 1800s,...
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