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• About that word “insurgents”

  
  Bookworm Room — Authority: 630
  I saw a headline at Drudge, to the effect that there is a photo of Afghan “insurgents” with U.S. ammo.  The story, although I’m sure it’s interesting, interested me less than that word “insurgent.”  We’ve all talked about the fact that “insurgent” a word that allows a politically correct, liberal ...
  17 hours ago

• I allegedly dont understand the word "allegedly." Allegedly.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  I am confused as to the use of the word "allegedly" and why it is used outside of a strictly legal sense (in the media for example)? For instance, with this most recent shooting in Texas, there are obviously dozens of eye witnesses, only one suspect under consideration, no one is going to argue in court that someone ...
  1 day ago

• Ask the Brains: Why Do We Have Trouble Facing Our Credit Cards the "Right" Way?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Why do most customers at my bookstore have trouble under­standing my instructions to swipe their debit cards with the magnetic stripe “toward me?” Almost everyone positions their card the wrong way, then asks in confusion, “Stripe toward me?”--meaning themselves. What is causing everyone to make the same ...
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• Short Sentence, Artful Sentences

  
  Writing Material — Authority: 119
  This entry is a response to Derek’s post , about teaching the first chapter of Virgina Tufte ’s book Artful Sentence: Syntax as Style in his writing course. I’m not teaching this semester, so I can reflect on the book in that context, but I did want to reflect a little on what a book like this is good for. ...
  1 day ago

• AAVE, AAE, BEV, whatever we call it nowadays, in the movies.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  Im looking for "black best friend" supporting characters in movies who also come with a black love interest. Im interested in their language patterns and dialect usage. Im thinking of writing a paper about the portrayal of African-American English in popular film. When I watched the movie Clueless, I was struck by ...
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• A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 410
  In my previous post (Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim), I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE. This shouldnt be a provocative speculation given the facts and communis opinio. However, the question is exactly how the name entered ...
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• Linguistic Death

  
  CultureWizard Blog — Authority: 120
  In World Affairs for Fall 2009, John McWhorter writes about the slow but certain death of many languages spoken around the world. As English gradually becomes a universal tongue, he asks if this is problematic, or rather advantageous in a highly interconnected and interdependent planet.“Linguistic death is ...
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• Giant Squid Assignment: How To Lens

  
  Prosperity 66 - Diary Of An Internet Marketing Newbie — Authority: 130
  Image via WikipediaWell, last Friday weve got a new assignment at Giant Squid Challenge (the Squidoo big status): we were asked to build a how to lens type with at least one review of a book made by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• Having The Right Language Software

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 461
  Language software which is now proliferating in the market is one of the most sought after gadgets for easy and fast way to learn different languages. No need to worry where to find software of this...
  3 days ago

• How To Choose Educational Software

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 461
  Educational software is definitely now one of the most sought after gadgets and tools to enhance the learning process. Unlike in the olden days when it seems like spending a fortune just to have your...
  3 days ago

• FREE 8,000+ Latin-English Dictionary

  
  pisteuomen : ?????????? - the weblog of t. michael w. halcomb — Authority: 473
  
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• Book Review: ‘Che Boludo: A Gringo’s Guide to Understanding the Argentines’

  
  The Argentine Post — Authority: 468
  Che Boludo: A Gringo’s Guide to Understanding the ArgentinesBy James Bracken, Ediciones Continente, 30 pesos, 61 pagesReviewed by Stephen PageOn a recent sunny spring day, while wandering...
  3 days ago

• Flat One-er with no Bobble

  
  shigekuni. — Authority: 129
  Names for things. Giles Turnbull in the Morning News about kids and names for things. Endlessly fascinating. Read it. Direct link here. It’s a linguistic study with a, uh, very small but cute sample group. This is the insight that led to doing the micro-survey: Of course! This language of Lego isn’t just something ...
  3 days ago

• Babies Cry With an Accent

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  In the first days of their lives, French infants already cry in a different way to German babies. This was the result of a study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, the Centre for Pre-language Development and Developmental Disorders (ZVES) at the University ...
  3 days ago

• Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 410
  Ive been dwelling the past few days on the origin of Etruscan words. Many words appear to be of Doric origin and then there are even older loanwords, it seems, showing Anatolian IE, West Semitic and Egyptian influence. On the topic of the origin of the Etruscan name, Uθuze (ET Cy G.1 and OI G.39), we need only look ...
  3 days ago

• NLP as a study of representations

  
  natural language processing blog — Authority: 103
  Ellen Riloff and I run an NLP reading group pretty much every semester. Last semester we covered "old school NLP." We independently came up with lists of what we consider some of the most important ideas (idea = paper) from pre-1990 (most are much earlier) and let students select which to present. There was a lot ...
  4 days ago

• Tone in, Tone on, Drop out: 10 Ways to Study Chinese which are More Useful than Going to Class

  
  Ben Ross' Blog — Authority: 103
  So you read my last post and now you’re motivated. You’ve been intimidated a long time, but now that you understand Chinese is only difficult in the beginning, you’re ready to make the jump and begin your studies. What’s next? Maybe you should……take a class……right? Wrong!I’ve often observed ...
  4 days ago

• We think what we speak

  
  The Do It Yourself Scholar — Authority: 414
  Each language has a toolkit to help us learn what to pay attention to.So argues Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky during this episode of the Stanford University radio show Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) (website, iTunes).Boroditsky studies how the languages we use influence the way we think. ...
  4 days ago

• Is it gay or is it steak?

  
  Omnivore Atlanta — Authority: 434
  Test your gaydar for names
  4 days ago

• When in Germany, Speak German

  
  Foreign Dispatches — Authority: 414
  Ive just discovered on Der Spiegels English-language pages that theres currently some sort of controversy taking place due to the insistence of Guido Westerwelle, Germanys new Foreign Minister, on answering a press conference question in German. Below is the video of said incident. Supposedly the events shown ...
  5 days ago

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