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Linguistics
A room for linguists and others who would like to share and discuss nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language Is Deciphered - - http://www.nytimes.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/etymolo...)
Proto-syntax? I'm doubtful, as is Mr. Verb (http://mr-verb.blogspot.com/2009...).
- Etymology Freak
Fwd: SlangSite.com - The Slang Dictionary - http://www.slangsite.com/ (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK - http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: RT @wordnik A year in reading: this year's best books on language and history. http://www.themillions.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: Hindi DOST 'friend' (< Persian) - cognate to the Old Indian word JUS 'to choose' - CHOOSE & JUS originating from the same Indo-European word (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: Languages of the World - Ethnologue: Statistical Summaries - http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_d... (via http://friendfeed.com/culture...)
Fwd: Arnold Zwicky ON THE NOUN WATCH: in a cold OPEN - a SLANG = a slang word/expression - the big REVEAL - new uses of LINGO http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: OMNIGLOT a guide to the writing systems & languages of the world: abjad alphabet abugidas syllabary ... http://omniglot.com #multilingual (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: YOU HAD ME AT 'HELLO' Nate Barksdale on the history of HELLO & its forbears hallo halloo hillo holla (Shakespeare) ... http://www.cardus.ca/comment... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: November is almost gone ... Let’s look at some winter words: hibernaculum - hiemate - from Latin hibernus /hiems http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2009... WORDMALL (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: Linguist Dan Everett's research on the life, culture & language of the Pirahã tribe in the Amazonian Jungle http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/dlevere... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: World language map - http://www.theodora.com/maps... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
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Fwd: WHY GERMAN SOUNDS FUNNY "German did not form its neologisms out of Greek and Latin, but of German itself." http://peripatus.blogspot.com/2005... #register (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: DEUTSCHES WÖRTERBUCH by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm "Es soll der sprache schatz bewahren, allen zu ihm den eingang offen halten" http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Project... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: MAJOR WORLD LANGUAGES MAP via @polyglotwit via @dialect http://www.theodora.com/maps... see thousands of informational pages on theodora.com ! (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: Free ebook! Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm. 16 Bde (in 32 Teilbänden). Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1854-1960 http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Project... (via http://friendfeed.com/german...)
Fwd: THREE OF A KIND: REVEALING LANGUAGE'S UNIVERSAL ESSENCE On the surface, English, Japanese & Kinande have little in common http://www.physorg.com/news177... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: WALS The World Atlas of Language Structures Online - most valuable resource for comparative linguistic studies http://wals.info #interactive (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT sound change affecting the long vowels of English during the 15th-18th centuries http://facweb.furman.edu/~mmenze... great resource (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: A BRIEF HISTORY OF 20TH CENTURY LINGUISTICS On different ways to study language- Saussure & Jakobson in context http://www.textetc.com/theory... #Chomsky (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: WolframAlpha WORDS & LINGUISTICS Word Properties : definitions synonyms - Word Puzzles : anagrams patterns endings ... http://www99.wolframalpha.com/example... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: She kept her head & kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in THEIR clothes http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009... #pronouns (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: Jean-François Champollion deciphered the writing on the Rosetta Stone - watched TV documentation - ever fascinating topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: THE ROOTS OF LANGUAGE Recent research with chimps provides support for theories of how language evolved in humans http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: Children with developmental dyslexia could benefit from the use of strategies...to enhance the sound of a teacher’s voice http://futurity.org/top-sto... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg on the practice of counting words "a favorite way to track a trend, uncover a hidden meaning.." http://www.npr.org/templat... (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: TY AND VY, THEN AND NOW Sharp-eyed observations about the change in Russian usage since the 19th century http://www.languagehat.com/archive... LANGUAGEHAT BLOG (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: BAHUVRĪHI : coined by Sanskrit grammarians for compounds with a possessive meaning : LIONHEART ("having a lion's heart") German ROTKÄPPCHEN (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: DYSLEXIA VARIES ACROSS LANGUAGES Speakers of Chinese have disorder different from that of English speakers http://www.sciencedaily.com/release... via @tamihania (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
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Fwd: RT @tamihania How Old Is Language? http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_... - another splendid post from BablesDawn.com. (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
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