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At What Point Do You Become Fluent in a Language? | TranslateMedia (http://www.translatemedia... ) http://dufs91kfhh0el.clou...

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non ci sono mai riuscito (se non per l'italiano) - .mau. - -

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Rata, tu sarai fluent in torinese o piemonteso della provincia, suppongo, chettifrega dell'italico? - StefanoHBS from Android - -

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Water, water, everywhere: how we named the oceans http://blog.oxforddiction... http://cdn.oxwordsblog.wp...

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"Happy World Oceans Day! To celebrate, we’re taking a look at the linguistic roots of the world’s five oceans. Before we start, what of ocean itself? The word comes to English via Latin from the Greek ōkeanos, which meant ‘great stream encircling the earth’s disc’. The word ocean originally denoted the whole body of water which the ancient Greeks believed to encompass the earth’s (supposed) single land mass; ocean was used to contrast with known inland seas, such as the Mediterranean (literally ‘in the middle of land’)." - maitani - -

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map showing the lexical distance between European language families - https://pbs.twimg.com/med...

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il basco è nell'altra pagina :-) (Mi stupisce che il romeno sia più vicino all'albanese che al gruppo delle lingue slave) - .mau. - [ 1 ] -

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Arriva una squadraccia armata di bastone; fa subito dietrofront sotto i colpi del mattone (La Fabbrica) - Mister Fisk - -

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"How the heck could a word spelled 'Toews' possibly be pronounced 'Tayvz?' I’m here to explain. Sort of." http://blogs.canoe.com/pa...

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Schadenfreude Is in the Zeitgeist, but Is There an Opposite Term? http://www.wsj.com/articl...

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"Word for taking pain in another’s pleasure is ‘gluckschmerz,’ or is it?" - maitani - [ 1 ] -

This is a wonderful article. It's a story, really. :-) - maitani - -

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Into, out of, and across the Eurasian steppe http://dienekes.blogspot.... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"A new paper in Nature adds to the earlier study in the same journal by presenting data from 101 ancient Eurasians. The year is not yet halfway over, but it seems that the ancient DNA field is moving towards a new norm of studying dozens of individuals at a time and comprehensively tackling the "big problems" that have vexed archaeologists, linguists, and historians for decades if not centuries." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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this study is really interesting for quite a few reasons. Dienekes points out certain consequences for specialistic subjects, but there are also some conclusions that can be perceived by everyone, such as ones concerning the light skin or the lactose intolerance. - Haukr - [ 1 ] -

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Changing languages http://blog.oup.com/2015/... http://blog.oup.com/wp-co...

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"In the literature on language death and language renewal, two cases come up again and again: Irish and Hebrew. Mention of the former language is usually attended by a whiff of disapproval. It was abandoned relatively recently by a majority of the Irish people in favour of English, and hence is quoted as an example of a people rejecting their heritage. Hebrew, on the other hand, is presented as a model of linguistic good behaviour: not only was it not rejected by its own people, it was even revived after being dead for more than two thousand years, and is now thriving." - maitani - -

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Beautiful Illustrations of Words with No English Equivalent http://twistedsifter.com/... https://twistedsifter.fil...

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"As usual, many of the translations seem to be somewhat more specifically evocative than the words they translate." http://languagelog.ldc.up... - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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For the #librarians: Not sure if you already know this but the Turkish word for library is "kütüphane" It's a constructed word from 2 languages; the Arabic word for book, originally kutub, the modern Turkish linguists desire to distance themselves from the Arabic language during the language reformation changed the b to a p; and the old Ottoman word hane meaning house, although it has a much broader meaning than just an abode, eg dynastic/royal/noble house etc.

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In short the word translates to "house of books" - Halil - -

The Turkish Language Reform : A Catastrophic Success http://www.turkishlanguag... https://books.google.co.u... - Halil - -

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Archaeology and the Homeric Question, Part 1 http://oralpoetry.blogspo... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"In this post I propose to explore the relationship between the discipline of archaeology and the Homeric Question, taking Orchomenos as a jumping off point. In so doing my aim is not so much to show something new about this relationship or to offer a new interpretation of the verses concerning Orchomenos, but rather to take this opportunity to give an overview of an important topic within the history of Homeric scholarship that has many implications for our understanding of the oral tradition in which the Iliad and Odyssey were composed. This post will focus on the history of the relationship between archaeology and the Homeric Question; future posts will address more theoretical aspects." - maitani - -

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Bibliographia Iranica http://www.biblioiranica.... http://i2.wp.com/www.aras...

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"A few years ago, I started a Twitter account, where I wished to tweet about new publications in Iranian Studies. The Twitter format, however, was not suitable and I closed the account. Unsatisfied with the search capabilities of Facebook, where information is difficult to retrieve (a black hole), I decided to put together this site, where I will announce publications and events relevant to Iranian Studies. If time permits it, I will annotate new publications, and if not, they will just be announced. In the context of this site Iranian Studies refers to more than just pre-Islamic Iran and Zoroastrianism. I use the Unified Style Sheet as a bibliographic format, which is in part promoted by the Linguistics Society of America." - maitani - -

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Totes http://languagelog.ldc.up...

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"Back in March, Lauren Spradlin gave a wonderful talk at PLC 39, under the title "OMG the Word-Final Alveopalatals are Cray-Cray Prev: A Morphophonological Account of Totes Constructions in English". It's been on my to-blog list ever since." - maitani - -

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New Book: Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds https://memiyawanzi.wordp... https://i0.wp.com/assets....

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"Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of social status and group membership. Language could reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences." - maitani - -

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Now Available Online | Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām http://kleos.chs.harvard.... http://kleos.chs.harvard....

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"Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran focuses on the content of one of the most important inscriptions of the Ancient Near East: the Bisotun inscription of the Achaemenid king Darius I (6th century BCE), which in essence reports on a suspicious fratricide and subsequent coup d’état. Moreover, the study shows how the inscription’s narrative would decisively influence the Iranian epic, epigraphic, and historiographical traditions well into the Sasanian and early Islamic periods." - maitani - -

via AWOL http://ancientworldonline... - maitani - -

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Lexicity http://lexicity.com/

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"The first and only comprehensive index for ancient language resources on the internet." - maitani - -

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I seriously risk not doing anything else but using the links of this website, now. - Haukr - -

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Halil to British and Irish Residents, Linguistics, Halil's feed
word of the day: unfettered - in terms of how the Tories will rule the next 5 years thanks to the Lib Dems who betrayed us and an unconvincing Labour leader!

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Now that the election is all but over and the the next 5 years will quite literally be blue, I can now be more attentive to my online social friends, sorry if I've been neglectful yet again! - Halil - -

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As an italian, when I read comments about elections in foreign countries and the "X will rule the next 5 years" sentence, my thoughts are always "awwww how cute!" - FelisCatus - -

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Glossary of linguistic terms http://www-01.sil.org/lin...

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"This is a living glossary, and suggestions are welcome for additions or corrections. Please send your comments to: SIL International Linguistics Coordinator." - maitani - -

Found via Another Word For It http://tm.durusau.net/?p=... one of my favorite blogs - maitani - -

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‘A Piece of Cake’ http://chronicle.com/blog... http://chronicle.com/blog...

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"It started with an email from my eclectic friend Wes Davis. He said he’d been reading Tinkerbelle, by, he told me, “Robert Manry, a copy editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer who, in 1965, took a leave of absence from his job and sailed a 13-and-a-half-foot wooden boat across the Atlantic, from Falmouth, Mass., to Falmouth, England.” He’d come upon a passage he thought would interest me. Manry is just starting out and it’s a beautiful day, “the wind strong enough to keep us moving along briskly.” He observes: “I told myself that if most of the days ahead were as pleasant as this, our trip would be a breeze, or, as the English say, a piece of cake.”" - maitani - -

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suffrage (http://www.etymonline.com... )

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suffrage (n.) late 14c., "intercessory prayers or pleas on behalf of another," from Old French sofrage "plea, intercession" (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin suffragium, from Latin suffragium "support, ballot, vote; right of voting; a voting tablet," from suffragari "lend support, vote for someone," conjectured to be a compound of sub "under" (see sub-) + fragor "crash, din, shouts (as of approval)," related to frangere "to break" (see fraction). On another theory (Watkins, etc.) the second element is frangere itself and the notion is "use a broken piece of tile as a ballot" (compare ostracism). - Halil from Bookmarklet - -

Meaning "a vote for or against anything" is from 1530s. The meaning "political right to vote" in English is first found in the U.S. Constitution, 1787. - Halil - -

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Cutthroat compounds in English morphology https://stancarey.wordpre... http://people.ucalgary.ca...

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"Cutthroat compounds name things or people by describing what they do. A cutthroat cuts throats, a telltale tells tales, a wagtail wags its tail, a killjoy kills joy, a scarecrow scares crows, a turncoat turns their coat, rotgut rots the gut, a pickpocket picks pockets, a sawbones saws bones (one of the few plural by default), and breakfast – lest you miss its hidden-in-plain-sight etymology – breaks a fast. The verb is always transitive, the noun its direct object." - maitani - -

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Me too. :-) This makes me view this familiar and unexciting word in a very different light. - maitani - -

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Valentina Quepasa to Valentina Quepasa's feed, Linguistics
The world's languages, in 7 maps and charts - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost... ) https://img.washingtonpos...

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Agriculture Came with Men to the Indian Subcontinent http://www.unz.com/gnxp/a... http://upload.wikimedia.o...

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"I am often asked by people online to give an “elevator pitch” as to the genetic history of the Indian subcontinent. At this point we’ve got ~90 percent of the story I think. Modern humans arrived in the Indian subcontinent ~50,000 years ago, and pushed onward to East Asia, but over the past ~10,000 years massive changes have occurred genetically due to the intrusion of populations form the northwest and northeast, with likely total cultural turnover. What do I mean by this? First, it’s highly probable that all of the extant language families of the Indian subcontinent are rooted in lineages which were present outside of the Indian subcontinent before the Holocene. In other words, during the Ice Age the ancestral linguistic entities which gave rise to Indo-European, Dravidian, and Austro-Asiatic, were present outside of confines of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan. The only exception here are the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islanders.*" - maitani - -

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What Did Proto-Indo-European Sound Like?—And How Can We Know? http://languagesoftheworl... http://languagesoftheworl...

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"Archaeology magazine recently published an article entitled “Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European”, which included a recording of a short text in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the ancestor of modern languages in Europe and parts of Asia. This recording, made by Dr. Andrew Byrd of the University of Kentucky, a student of UCLA’s Indo-European expert H. Craig Melchert, drew considerable attention in the media (see here, here, and here). The text read by Byrd is a short parable called “The Sheep and the Horses”, which was originally written by a German philologist August Schleicher in 1868, as a way to experiment with the reconstructed PIE vocabulary. Here is the English translation of the story (which may sound familiar to people who watched the movie Prometheus):" - maitani - -

"A sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The sheep said to the horses: “My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses.” The horses said: “Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool.” Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain." - maitani - -

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Introduction to Homeric Greek: Volume 1 http://hour25.heroesx.chs... http://i.imgur.com/bhBLJR...

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"This Introduction to Homeric Greek series was created by members of the Hour 25 Community in coordination with Professor Graeme Bird as a community-generated, open access educational resource. The series is designed as a gentle introduction for absolute beginners." - maitani - -

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If any of you gives this a try, I'd like to hear what you think about it. As soon as I have time to look into this, I'll comment on it here (but that won't be before the end of May, unfortunately). - maitani - -

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On cups and mugs http://david-crystal.blog... http://rlv.zcache.de/i_li...

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