Los misterios del género

  • Posted by Stephen Whiteley
  • On 04/08/2016
  • Género gramatical, idiomas, language, Latin, lenguas
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El controvertido tema de los dialectos

  • Posted by Stephen Whiteley
  • On 29/05/2013
  • dialect, dialecto, dialectos, language, lengua, lenguas, lingüistas, WinAlign
Ya que hemos publicado entradas recientemente acerca del napolitano y de las variantes del árabe, parece un buen momento para revisar algunos de los usos del término «dialecto» y tratar de descifrar a qué se refieren los lingüistas cuando lo utilizan. En primer lugar, se usa para designar una variedad de una lengua determinada que […]
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A few gems from MacAlpine’s Gaelic Dictionary (1833)

  • Posted by Stephen Whiteley
  • On 04/05/2013
  • language, words
In his book On The Life and Death of Languages, linguist Claude Hagège talks about Pomo, an Amerindian language spoken in Northern California. This language has a verb which means ‘to suddenly introduce words into a song that one was in the process of humming’, and another which translates as ‘to make one’s biscuits go […]
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Eliot Weinberger on a new translation of the Psalms

  • Posted by Stephen Whiteley
  • On 12/11/2012
  • Hebrew, language, Translation
The full article is more than worth reading, but I just wanted to share an extract from Eliot Weinberger’s review of Robert Alter’s 2007 translation of the Psalms. Alter puportedly wanted to strip away the anachronous Christian-isms of the King James version, and go back to the original Hebrew weltanschauung it encapsulates. The following paragraph […]
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BEST OF SPAMBOTS

  • Posted by Stephen Whiteley
  • On 17/06/2011
  • Google Translate, internet, language, sales, spam, Translation
UPDATE: This is out of all control. Apparently there is an exponential tendency – approve one, and more and more spambots flock to your post. I’m not sure whether to close the comments or see exactly how far this can go. Quite far, I suspect. For a long time I wondered why it was that […]
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