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Basque words in English

Posted 439 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Basque is a fascinating language. Despite speculations that it may, somehow, be related to language groups from Eastern Europe, it is essentially that rarest of linguistic phenomena, a language that emerged independently of its neighbours, and preserved its individuality throughout …

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Facebook Digest 14/3/11: a meal eaten sideways

Posted 792 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. Hans Georg Gadamer UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS #19: Kwarandzyey azMamweg (Korandje) – “dates that aren’t quite ripe yet, but that already …

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Curious Constraints 2: the blameless bald

Posted 797 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Writing which responds to curious typographical constraints has a long and eccentric history. Hucbald (c. 850 – 930), Frankish monk and godfather of music theory, is best remembered (by those who remember such things) as the author of Ecloga de …

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