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Anglicizing German http://arnoldzwicky.org/2... http://arnoldzwicky.s3.am...
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"A beef on weck is a sandwich found primarily in Western New York. It is made with roast beef on a kummelweck roll. The meat on the sandwich is traditionally served rare, thin cut, with the top bun getting a dip au jus. Accompaniments include horseradish, a dill pickle spear, and french fries." - maitani - - (Edit | Remove)
"The kummelweck roll gives the sandwich its name and a distinctive taste. A kummelweck (sometimes pronounced “kimmelweck” or “kümmelweck”) is topped with kosher salt and caraway seeds. Kümmel is the German word for caraway, and weck means “roll” in the south-western German dialects of the Baden and Swabia areas (northern Germans generally say Brötchen), although the kind of weck used for this sandwich in America tends to be much softer and fluffier than a standard German Kümmelbrötchen or Kümmelweck." - maitani - - (Edit | Remove)
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Space as a matter of attention http://www.babelsdawn.com... http://www.babelsdawn.com...
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"There might seem to be a very large number of ways attention can be shifted, but fortunately the gestalt psychologists have managed to reduce the number of things perceived to two categories: the figure and the ground. Carstensen calls the figure the LO (locative object) and the ground the (RO) reference object, but that has proved too confusing for me and I'm sticking with gestalt terminology. Gestalt psychology leaves us with only three possible attention shifts. (A fourth, ground to ground, does not work. One of the grounds becomes a figure):" - maitani - - (Edit | Remove)
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My point exactly :) - barrywynn from Android - - (Edit | Remove)
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What Part of “No, Totally” Don’t You Understand? http://www.newyorker.com/... http://www.newyorker.com/...
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"Not long ago, I walked into a friend’s kitchen and found her opening one of those evil, impossible-to-breach plastic blister packages with a can opener. This worked, and struck me as brilliant, but I mention it only to illustrate a characteristic that I admire in our species: given almost any entity, we will find a way to use it for something other than its intended purpose. We commandeer cafeteria trays to go sledding, “The Power Broker” to prop open the door, the Internet to look at kittens. We do this with words as well—time was, spam was just Spam—but, lately, we have gone in for a particularly dramatic appropriation. In certain situations, it seems, we have started using “no” to mean “yes.”" - maitani - - (Edit | Remove)
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Elixir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w... ) http://upload.wikimedia.o...
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An elixir (via Arabic term of "Al Iksir" itself from Greek "xḗrion") is a clear, sweet-flavored liquid used for medicinal purposes, to be taken orally and intended to cure one's ills. When used as a pharmaceutical preparation, an elixir contains at least one active ingredient designed to be taken orally. - Halil from Bookmarklet - - (Edit | Remove)
Just another word from the Arab language we use all the time, well maybe not this word, but it's a lovely word! - Halil - - (Edit | Remove)
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Alashiya; possible ancient name for Cyprus but I wonder if it's not Turkey? If you say the name slowly it has similar phoneme to the word Asia and Turkey was called Asia Minor, I know I'm pushing it with that theory! Anyway, any thoughts?
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The name of the state translated as "Alashiya" is found on texts written in Egyptian, Hittite, Akkadian, Mycenean (Linear B) and Ugaritic. http://en.wikipedia.org/w... - Halil - - (Edit | Remove)
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Akkadian is the common link here! Akkadian language http://en.wikipedia.org/w... - Halil - - (Edit | Remove)
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Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants? - http://www.theguardian.com/global-...
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In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat”. - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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It probably varies from region to region, but my impression is that in the Philippines people from ASEAN countries and from other former colonies of European countries tend to get called immigrants while people from East Asia, Europe, or the Americas tend to get called ex-pats. It kind of seems to map along lines of privilege, particularly economic privilege and also by the perceived strength of the person's home country (and this perception can vary widely from person to person.) - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Why the OED are right to purge nature from the dictionary - http://www.theguardian.com/science...
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If the pen is mightier than the sword then words are probably more lethal than bullets, and that makes Oxford Dictionaries the most powerful military force in the world. This metaphor helps explain two things: why I’m not a very successful writer, and why a group of authors are so concerned that a variety of words relating to nature were culled from the Oxford Junior Dictionary. - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Wait, wait, wait. They took me out of the dictionary? WTF. But seriously, at least half of those are common words. I don't understand this at all. - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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The Linguistics Behind Kevin Spacey's Southern Accent in House of Cards: A Quick Primer | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2015...
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YARDIM LTF. #akademikKaygılar Sevaba girilmesi lazım. kendimin yazacağı bir makale için ufacık tırtoviç kıvamında bir deneye ihtiyacım var, sizlerin yardımıyla büyümeyi ve bir gün akademiyi emzirecek noktaya gelmeyi hedefliyorum. Ekte Türkiyemizin çoğul ekiyle oluşturulmuş yer isimleri var, bunları bana telaffuz edip göndermenizdir ricam.3 dklıktır
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herşey word dosyasında açıklanmış durumda. şimdiden eyvurula, selaminaleykür bi de şey dicem: ravmetılla. - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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İTİRAF: abilinds, bu dünyadan çeşitli şehirlerde listemde, önceden, birer insan olarak mecbur, duymuş oldıuğunuz MANİLA, MARSİLYA, STOKHOLM ve KALKÜTA dışındakiler kolpaydı, ben salladım yeani, sıfırdan duyunca nassı vurgu koyuonuz diye anlamak için, etik sıkıntısı yok burda, etik demeyin - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Ancient Greek amulet with strange palindrome inscription discovered in Cyprus | Ancient Origins - http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-hi...
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Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed a 1,500-year-old amulet in the ancient city of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, which contains a curious palindrome inscription – a text that reads the same both backwards and forwards – as well as several images believed to represent Egyptian god Osiris, god of silence, Harpocrates, and a dog-headed mythical being. - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Küfür ve argo konusunda, sözcüklerin etimolojisi ve elde edilen yeni anlamları konusunda bildiğiniz iyi bir araştırma var mı?
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Fwd: Küfür (sövme) ün ontolojisine giriş <a rel="nofollow" href="http://modernwish.wordpre... ; title="http://modernwish.wordpre... ; (vía <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ff.im/1kamzP"... ;) - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Sepete attım bunu da. Teşekkürler. - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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The Elusive Roma and their Linguistic Legacy - Languages Of The World | Languages Of The World - http://languagesoftheworld.info/geoling...
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&quot;In contrast to these special lexicons, Romany itself—spoken primarily in Central and Eastern Europe—is a full-fledged language, possessing a distinctive sound system and grammar. As with other languages, Romany exhibits geographic variation. Overall, however, this variation is relatively recent, going back to the settlement of Gypsies in Europe in 14th and 15th centuries. All Romany dialects derive from a single ancestral tongue, and the differences among them resemble the kind of variations found among dialects of such European languages as German and Italian. The exact enumeration and classification of Romany dialects remains a controversial subject, but several groups can be distinguished by the degree of mutual intelligibility. For example, Romany dialects spoken in Balkans and the Danubian Basin are largely mutually intelligible. A second group of closely-related dialects includes those spoken in central-eastern Europe: northern Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, southern Poland and western Ukraine. A third is found between central Poland, the Baltic states and Russia (see map of Northeastern Romany dialects; additional maps of Romany dialectal groups can be found on the University of Manchester Romani Project website). The Northwestern group of Romany dialects includes those found in, or formerly found in, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, and Finland.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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hayırlı bir akademik mesele için ve benim masterıma yardım ve akademinin güzelliğini bi kez daha tatmamız için şuraya bileşik kelime olmayan, çoğul eki almış yer isimlerini yazar mıyız? türkiye içi, telaffuzunu duymuş olduğunuz herhangi bir mahalle, semt, sokak, ilçe herşey orrayt.
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Ahaha en güzeli her isme köy varken, aliler'in anca &quot;hacı aliler&quot; olarak olması. Yavuz Sultân Selim Köprüsü ile gidilen ülke Türkiye - benmavi from Flucso ahahaha ya ;___; - Alfonker Tapir mühim v_v - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics - https://www.coursera.org/course...
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&quot;Everywhere, every day, everybody uses language. There is no human society, no matter how small or how isolated, which does not employ a language that is rich and diverse. This course introduces you to linguistics, featuring interviews with well-known linguists and with speakers of many different languages. Join us to explore the miracles of human language!&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Irrelevant, but interesting to me: When I began to use the social bookmarking website delicious in 2006 (my first attempt to participate in the web 2.0 world), Marc van Oostendorp's account was one of the first I followed there. :-) - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Apron, adder, and other words that used to begin with 'n'... | OxfordWords blog - http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014...
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&quot;Because it is impossible in fast speech to tell whether the sound /n/ belongs to the indefinite article or the following noun, over the years the letter N has on rare occasions migrated from one word to the other. This process is referred to as metanalysis.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
&quot;Below are a few examples of words that had their beginnings in beginning with N.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Babel's Dawn: Grumble, Mumble Rumble - http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_...
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&quot;I ended my last post with a grumble about the impoverished view of humanity that I often encounter when I read linguistic musings. Most of the articlesI report on do not seem to grasp how much had to change for a lineage of apes to become a lineage of, say, Kalahari hunter-gatherers that can sit around a fire and tell each other about their emotions.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
&quot;We had to go through an evolutionary process that involved a lot more than developing a recursive function. We are at least as different from apes as ants are from grasshoppers, and any theory of language evolution ought to acknowledge that language requires unusual kind of animal.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Monthly etymology gleanings for October 2014, Part 2 | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...
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&quot;Brown study As I mentioned last time, one of our correspondents asked me whether anything is known about this idiom. My database has very little on brown study, but I may refer to an editorial comment from the indispensable Notes and Queries (1862, 3rd Series/I, p. 190). The writer brings brown study in connection with French humeur brune, literally “brown humor, or disposition,” said about a somber or melancholy temperament.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Open Access to Brill's most downloaded articles from Q3 2014 - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2014...
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&quot;Brill's most downloaded articles from Q3 2014 in the subject area of Classical Studies, Biblical and Religious Studies, and Middle East &amp; Islamic Studies  Free access until 31 January 2015&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Lexicon Valley: The history and evolution of writing out numbers in the English language. - http://www.slate.com/article...
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&quot;Four and twenty. That's how many blackbirds, you may remember, were baked in that unappetizing pie of “Sing a Song of Sixpence” fame. But did people really write out—and speak—numerals in that way? Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk about the transition in English—over the course of 700 years!—from four and twenty to twenty-four.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Professor Pinker and Professor Strunk – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/blogs...
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&quot;The voice on BBC radio was that of Professor Steven Pinker, fluent and engaging as ever. But my blood froze as I listened to what he said.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Writing In The 21st Century | Edge.org - a Conversation with Steven Pinker <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ff.im/1iwmk0"... ; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Pidgin, patois, slang, dialect, creole — English has more forms than you might expect | Public Radio International - http://www.pri.org/stories...
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&quot;There are probably as many terms for different kinds of English vernacular as there are vernaculars themselves: pidgin, patois, slang, creole dialect and so on.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Sounds of the Tides: Some Thoughts on Literature in the Vernacular <a rel="nofollow" href="http://3quarksdaily.blogs... ; title="http://3quarksdaily.blogs... ; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Forthcoming: Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches - http://langsci-press.org/catalog...
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&quot;This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistics or contributed tools that are relevant for current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government &amp; Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Philosophy Monkey: Steven Pinker - Linguistics as a Window to Understand the Brain - http://berto-meister.blogspot.de/2014...
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&quot;One of the things I first enjoyed when I was introduced to philosophy was its recursive nature: we could use thought to investigate the nature, the rules, the structure and the limits of thought itself (and what that could tell us about the human mind). For a very similar reason I have a certain appreciation and fondness for linguistics. Most of our communication takes place through language, and linguists are hard at work trying to understand what they can about human cognition, nature and culture, by paying close attention to the way in which we use language.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
&quot;In the following lecture, Steven Pinker provides a fascinating introduction to questions such as how syntax (the study of linguistic structure), phonology (the study of sound), semantics (the study of meaning) and pragmatics (the study of the social and cultural role and context of language), all help us to understand how language works. He also provides a lesson on the nature of the various rules of grammar and sound production, how language is first acquired, how it's processed and how it's encoded in the brain, the difference between language and thought, the ambiguity inherent in our use of language and the interesting and humorous consequences to which it can lead, and why it is so difficult for computers to understand language while it seems so easy and automatic for us.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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Linguistic necromancy: a guide for the uninitiated | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...
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&quot;It’s fairly common knowledge that languages, like people, have families. English, for instance, is a member of the Germanic family, with sister languages including Dutch, German, and the Scandinavian languages. Germanic, in turn, is a branch of a larger family, Indo-European, whose other members include the Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, and more), Russian, Greek, and Persian.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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&quot;The earliest Old English written texts date from the 7th century AD, and the earliest Germanic text of any length is a 4th-century translation of the Bible into Gothic, a now-extinct Germanic language. Though impressively old, this text still dates from long after the breakup of the Germanic mother language into its daughters.&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML / Home / Home - http://sourceforge.net/p...
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&quot;EpiDoc is an international, collaborative effort that provides guidelines and tools for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents. It uses a subset of the Text Encoding Initiative 's standard for the representation of texts in digital form and was developed initially for the publication of digital editions of ancient inscriptions (e.g. Inscriptions of Aphrodisias , Vindolanda Tablets ). Its domain has expanded to include the publication of papyri and manuscripts (e.g. Papyri.info ). It addresses not only the transcription and editorial treatment of texts themselves, but also the history and materiality of the objects on which the texts appear (i.e., manuscripts, monuments, tablets, papyri, and other text-bearing objects).&quot; - friendfeed from FriendFeed - - (Edit | Remove)
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