#123307 - 02/19/04 08:19 AM
Useful language links
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#123310 - 03/11/04 12:18 PM
Re: Glossaries
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wow. I may be gone some time...
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#123313 - 05/30/04 01:56 PM
Re: Useful language links
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i didn't (don't remember) seeing this on Max's site.. it's somewhat interesting.. http://www.wordspy.comi like the subject index.
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#123317 - 05/31/04 04:41 PM
Re: What about ...
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#123318 - 06/19/04 05:18 PM
Re: Useful language links
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#123319 - 06/19/04 09:58 PM
Re: Useful language links
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In reply to:
Got this one, Max?
http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge/dictionary.html
I have now. Mucho obrigado.
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#123321 - 06/20/04 03:17 AM
Re: Useful language links
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In reply to:
Mucho obrigado.
This is, perhaps, an example of Portuņol?
That was the idea, yep. Inspired, natch, by your good self, Your Honour.
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#123323 - 06/20/04 04:49 PM
Re: Hobo dictionary
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it'd be fun to see a bit of etymology on some of those terms. very interesting stuff.
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#123324 - 07/03/04 07:56 AM
Re: Hobo dictionary
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how about this one, Max? http://www.etymologie.info/~e/@_/@_-sprach.htmlgot it via LanguageHat.
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#123327 - 09/17/04 06:13 PM
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#123328 - 09/17/04 08:17 PM
Re: D'ya ken this link?
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#123329 - 09/23/04 06:07 PM
Re: D'ya ken this link?
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#123333 - 09/29/04 09:13 PM
Re: Useful language links
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I don't think you have this one, Max: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/But beware. There's quicksand in there.
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#123335 - 02/18/05 07:58 PM
Re: Useful language links
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#123336 - 02/25/05 06:41 PM
Re: Useful language links
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Thanks to Lizzie on w/origins for pointing out the BBC site element: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/C54721Lots of interesting specific topics summarised for example, see: Alphabets and writing systems / The development of the Western Alphabet.
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#123337 - 03/02/05 06:33 PM
Re: Useful language links
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On the news tonight was a brief item about a fantastic new British Library resource, featuring a bank of recordings of UK accents and other regional speech markers. I thought some of you might be interested: http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
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#123339 - 03/03/05 12:29 PM
Re: Useful language links
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> I couldn't follow it at all eeh bah goom, moss't Brits feel t'same way, lass! 
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#123340 - 03/07/05 05:56 AM
Re: (another) Useful language link
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Perhaps others already use this and I have simply missed your mention of it, but in case its new to you too, I strongly suggest you check it out. There are an incredible number of interesting searchable texts available. Heres a direct link to perhaps the most useful area for this board: http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=word_origins&OFFID=se1&KEY=word_originThis takes you to the front end of all kinds of other topic searches! http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp
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#123341 - 03/07/05 07:19 AM
Re: Useful language links
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a bank of recordings of UK accentsThis dialect collection was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition. I had little trouble following the Yorkshire lady*, but the Staffordshire collector really had me stymied! ~~~ *maybe because I can sing "On Ilkley Moor Baht'At." 
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#123342 - 03/13/05 05:41 PM
Another Shakespeare link
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#123344 - 06/10/05 05:27 PM
Re: nother resource
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http://www.acronyma.com/A remarkable acronym finder, searchable in several languages. (with thanks to aldiboronti @ w/origins)
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#123346 - 06/10/05 06:24 PM
Re: nother resource
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hey, didn't know you spoke Welsh!
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#123348 - 06/11/05 01:21 PM
Re: nother resource
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Are you taking the epistemology?
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#123349 - 06/11/05 06:09 PM
Re: Linguistics terms gloss
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#123350 - 06/13/05 06:26 PM
Re: Digi-dics of South Asia
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For all interested in the languages of that region, this might be an interesting set of resources: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/edit: and this is quite cool too: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/ ~ a searchable copy of The Imperial Gazetteer of India
Hunter, William Wilson, Sir, 1840-1900
Cotton, James Sutherland, 1847-1918 ed.
Burn, Richard, Sir, 1871-1947 joint ed.
Meyer, William Stevenson, Sir, 1860-1922. joint ed.
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New edition, published under the authority of His Majesty's secretary of state for India in council.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908-1931 [v. 1, 1909]~ with a nod to languagelog's quote of Dick & Garlick's blog: http://dickandgarlick.blogspot.com/2005/06/burgers-bun-kababs.html
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#123353 - 06/13/05 07:34 PM
Re: French, Italian speakers in USA?
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If you ever wonder about the mix of leaves in the Tossed Salad of A, here's the tool to tell you in case you haven't seen this before: http://www.mla.org/census_map
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#123355 - 06/14/05 07:15 AM
Re: French, Italian speakers in USA?
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> browser
woiked fine for me?
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#123358 - 06/15/05 01:03 AM
Re: The rest of the story
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Lyle Campbell, American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Ives Goddard (Ed.), Languages, vol. 17, Handbook of North American Indians, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1996.
Marianne Mithun, The Languages of Native North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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#123360 - 09/21/05 08:14 PM
Re: Wordteque
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#182851 - 02/23/09 08:43 AM
Re: Wordteque
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New edition of UNESCOs Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger language map Here are languages and dialects most unheard of (by me anyway). Endagered Languages World-map (long pdf download )really nice to zoom in on it. (immo)
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#182867 - 02/23/09 04:57 PM
Re: Wordteque
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This map holds a wealth of info. So many languages left with
only one or two persons speaking it. Makes me want to take
one on if only to preserve it.
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#182870 - 02/23/09 05:37 PM
Re: Wordteque
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According to the newspaper article that brought me to this site, languagediversity is to culture what biodiversity is to nature. On the list of countries counting the most endangered languages India is on top (196), followed by the United States (192) and Indonesia (147). The last speaker of Eyak, a language of Alaska died last year. So, you have the choice of 192 U.S. languages if you want to take one on. Which will it be? In my area I could choose Ripuarisch  , a language spoken in Rhineland.
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#182890 - 02/24/09 12:38 PM
Re: Wordteque
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We had a newspaper article yesterday that pertains to this
topic.
According to the article, only one native speaker of Livonian
remains on Earth, in Latvia. Eyak, an Alaskan language, died
last year with its last speaker.
These are two of nearly 2000 that UNESCO says have gone extinct
or in danger of doing so.
With each language being a vessel of culture, a repository for
a unique set of feelings, expressions, wisdoms, ways of looking
at the world, it is worth preserving.
According to the article, in the USA alone more than a fourth
of the 192 languages once spoken have disappeared; 71 are
severely endangered, e.g., Gros Ventre (fewer than 10); Menomonee
(35 speakers).
Livonian is being revived by being taught in schools to young
peole in Latvia and thru poetry.
Sort of makes one want to learn one to help the cause along..
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#184485 - 04/25/09 05:16 AM
Hi
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Hi,
This is a wonderful opinion. The things mentioned are unanimous and needs to be appreciated by everyone.
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Edited by Jackie (04/28/09 10:30 PM)
Edit Reason: We don't like spam a lot.
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#184501 - 04/25/09 10:39 PM
Re: Wordteque
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Kurdish Some languages are endagered because they are banned. Many, many, Native American languages were banned by Christian Missionary Schools on reservations and in native villages as the 'savages' were 'saved', leading thus to their dying out.
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#184611 - 05/02/09 07:28 PM
Astronomy
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I love astronomy, and I understand from another poster to this site (AWAD)that some of you may also be interested. I go to this site daily, and love it, so I offer it, to whomever may be interested: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.htmlAnd thanks to the "other" poster for the suggestion. This person understand my hesitancy at times, but it was a good suggestion if others may benefit. I have learned here a lot of things and wish I could offer more.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (05/02/09 09:36 PM)
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#184639 - 05/04/09 07:15 AM
Re: Astronomy
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Ah, the APOD.
On my corporate computer I have three Internet links in the Windows 'Startup' group that automatically start my day;
AWAD
APOD
The Daily WTF
Edited by ParkinT (05/04/09 07:16 AM)
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#184653 - 05/05/09 03:36 AM
Re: Astronomy
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Well, there's things we cannot say in words, so we have images. There are things we cannot say with images, that's why we have words. And there are things we can say in neither images nor words, that's why we have music. But I'm sure the first thing I'm gonna see when I will die is this Whale Galaxy : link Cause I have no words for the beauty of it.
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#184656 - 05/05/09 08:15 AM
Re: Astronomy
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Amen.
And the mind-boggling thing is that each of those simple points of colored light might represent an entire solar system like ours. I cannot perceive of infinity. I thought it would be easier if I break down the problem. So, I am contemplating half of infinity!
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#184666 - 05/05/09 01:51 PM
Re: Astronomy
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That is beautiful! But they provided a humpback whale image link, and it's really not like a humpback; it resembles almost perfectly a Minke: Minke whale I have seen Minkes, but not much of them, as they are shy and not prone to breaching often. Humpbacks are fascinating and beautiful. I have been as close as about 10 feet from one as it dove shallowly underneath the boat, its "wings" spread out wide. So huge and mighty, yet so gentle... :0)
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#184675 - 05/05/09 10:13 PM
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If we had spam, we could have spam and eggs, if we had eggs. But wait... All we need is the eggs now. It depends. Are you writing about Spam or spam? I had Spam and eggs just the other day. During World War II, my dad survived on Spam while serving in the South Pacific. The only fresh meat they had was Australian sheep that came frozen in the entire carcass. He said that they looked so much like dogs that he could not get his mind past the obstacle so turned to Spam almost exclusively.
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#184676 - 05/05/09 10:18 PM
Re: Wordteque
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Kurdish Some languages are endagered because they are banned. Many, many, Native American languages were banned by Christian Missionary Schools on reservations and in native villages as the 'savages' were 'saved', leading thus to their dying out. I think you are only half correct. The missionaries could certainly ban the use of their students native languages in their schools; but they could hardly ban them on the reservations. That would have taken the collusion of the Federal Indian Agents. I have a friend and former seminary classmate who is a missionary to Indians in the Pacific Northwest today and the mission with which he is associated is doing as much as it can to maintain the native languages of the tribes to which they minister.
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#184716 - 05/10/09 12:51 PM
Re: Astronomy
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That is beautiful! But they provided a humpback whale image link, and it's really not like a humpback; it resembles almost perfectly a Minke: Minke whale I have seen Minkes, but not much of them, as they are shy and not prone to breaching often. Humpbacks are fascinating and beautiful. I have been as close as about 10 feet from one as it dove shallowly underneath the boat, its "wings" spread out wide. So huge and mighty, yet so gentle... :0) Absolutely magnificent. Thanks for sharing.
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#184717 - 05/10/09 12:54 PM
Re: Wordteque
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If I read this sentence correctly :
"Many, many, Native American languages were banned by Christian Missionary Schools on reservations and in native villages as the 'savages' were 'saved', leading thus to their dying out." _ it says exactly the same thing you say.
NB. It says by schools on reservations and in villages, not just on reservations and in villages. That is correct. Not only on reservations. Sorry for the cynicism, but it roils my native American blood to have had our children forcibly Christianized and "civilized" and Americanized. And I am only part Native American. Forcibly taking whole tribes to a river and "baptizing' them without any idea of what was going on (cf movie: "Mission"). Don't want to start a fight here, just expressing an opinion.
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#191126 - 05/16/10 03:32 PM
Re: Useful language links
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Hello, all. As a language coach in Paris, some of you might be interested in the language and cross-cultural notes on my blog. Regards to all at Wordsmith! http://www.paris-savannah.com
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#193606 - 10/23/10 09:53 AM
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#193611 - 10/23/10 02:03 PM
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still it felt good to say that.
I applauded your command of the idiom. (Or is it the same in Dutch?)
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#193612 - 10/23/10 04:22 PM
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That post has been reported and will be taken care of. and can one assume that monclerr112 has been reported for numerous transgressions, as well?!
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#193613 - 10/23/10 07:13 PM
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