Mantık yücedir – ya da öyle mi?
Çok mantıklı bir dil olmasından dolayı Türkçe öğrenmenin kolay olduğu söylenir. Sözdizimi kurallarındaki bazı istisnaî durumlar haricinde dilbilgisi yapısı son derece mantıklıdır. Hiçbir dilbilgisel...
View ArticleKeith Chen animated
Jason Merchant sent me a link to this animation of Keith Chen's ideas about tense marking and future-orientation in financial and health behaviors: Jason's note: There are many errors in the reporting...
View ArticleThe ultimate earworms
From Lev Michael at Greater Blogazonia: I was briefly excited by the title of a recent Language Log post, Earworms and White Bears, thinking it might have something to say about, well, worms that...
View ArticleGIVING OUT.
Stan at Sentence first has a post about an informal Irish usage, give out, meaning 'complain, grumble, moan' or 'criticize, scold, reprimand, tell off':I think this give out comes from the Irish...
View ArticleGilbane Conference Program Posted
The Gilbane Conference program has been posted. The Gilbane Conference on Content and the Digital Experience will be held at the Westin Boston Waterfront, December 3-5, 2013. Join the content managers,...
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"It's a little overcast."
Your husband is getting dressed to leave for work. You're sitting next to the window, so he asks you if it looks like it will rain today. You tell him that it's cloudy. It's a little overcast.
View ArticleLanguage and words in the news – 7th September, 2013
This post contains a selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English, language...
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Language and words in the news – 7th September, 2013
This post contains a selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English, language...
View ArticleProportion of adjectives and adverbs: Some facts
Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, "Cluttered writing: adjectives and adverbs in academia", Scientometrics 2013: [H]ow do we produce readable and clean scientific writing? One of the good elements of style is to...
View ArticleTranslator Elizabeth Tanfield Cary
Some time back, there was an article on the BBC website about Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, a sixteenth century girl who was a writer and translator.The article notes, “She grew up in the village [Burford...
View Article9/8/13 - arrogate
1. To lay claim to something to which you have no right; to appropriate inappropriately. 2. To claim something to which you have no right or legitimate claim for someone else.
View ArticleReuters Video: Two men arrested after palace break-in
Police say two men were arrested in connection to a reported break-in at Buckingham Palace. Gavino Garay reports. TRANSCRIPT REPORTER: Two men have been arrested by police after a break-in at...
View ArticleCartoon: Buckingham Palace Break-In
This cartoon by Bob from The Telegraph mixes two news stories: the break-in at Buckingham Palace (see previous post), and the comments by UK Prime Minister David Cameron's passionate defence of...
View ArticleTHE CRYSTALS ON SHAKESPEARE.
David Crystal and his son Ben, an actor who studied linguistics in college, discuss how Shakespeare works in original pronunciation in this ten-minute video, which I found very enlightening (I wouldn't...
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Diccionario Español
WordReference ofrece el Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005 Espasa Calpe. * Más de 50.000 entradas. * Más de 150.000 definiciones y ejemplos de uso. * Más de 7.000 notas gramaticales. * Más de...
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forest, wood and woods
I am supposed to be giving the 'How America Saved the English Language' talk in Ashford at the moment, but it had to be cancel(l)ed because the organi{s/z}er isn't well. I hope it will be...
View Article9 Effective Tips for Spanish Copywriting
Translation services are often differentiated as either “straight translation” appropriate for technical content for instance, whereby a more literal translation is used, OR “Copywriting-transcreation”...
View ArticleThai Language Thai Culture: Do Thais Want Me to Speak Thai?
Do Thais Want Me to Speak Thai?… Since I have been submitting a bit of grammar in the series Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary, I thought it was time to comment a little more on the cultural side of...
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A Language Evolves - BU Today
BU TodayA Language EvolvesBU TodayDanny Erker's interest in linguistics was piqued in an unlikely place: a grade school in Milwaukee, Wis., where he was teaching five- and six-year-olds how to play...
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