Pinboard: bookmarks for ignatz tagged 'language'

"The massive work by New Zealand scholar Sally-Ann Lambert is extraordinarily detailed, and the product of years of effort.

The problem is: The language in the book is not recognizable by contemporary scholars, or Native Tlingit speakers."

language race racism tlingit books articles via:itrasbiel
february 2012 by ignatz

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London Underground anagram map (place cursor over anagram to see name)
language london map visualization anagrams
february 2012 by ignatz

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Captain Haddock's curses, insults and exclamations | Tintinologist.org
language tintin reference
november 2011 by ignatz

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Difficult languages: Tongue twisters | The Economist
linguistics language !Xóõ
november 2011 by ignatz

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German Phrase of the Day: eines Echtheitskusses Unangekränkeltheitsdruck - waggish

the non-sicklied-o’er pressure of an authenticity-laden kiss

language
september 2011 by ignatz

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Three Cheers | Futility Closet
language ha
august 2011 by ignatz

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Inca Paradox: Maybe the pre-Columbian civilization did have writing. - By Mark Adams - Slate Magazine
language incas
july 2011 by ignatz

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Onomasiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wikipedia language
july 2011 by ignatz

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Loanword - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
language wikipedia
july 2011 by ignatz

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hanzismatter.blogspot.com: Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved

Alan Siegrist, a professional Japanese-English translator, member of both Japan Association of Translators (JAT) and American Translators Association (ATA), has finally solved the mystery of gibberish “Asian Font”.

fonts linguistics cjkv failure language tattoos
july 2011 by ignatz

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Untranslatability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
via:popular language translation
june 2011 by ignatz

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Betteridge's Law of Headlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Betteridge's Law of Headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no' ".

journalism language failure wikipedia
june 2011 by ignatz

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When You’re Strange
culture language
may 2011 by ignatz

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That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identiﬁcation

The SCIENCE behind "That's what she said!"

language science ha
april 2011 by ignatz

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Diner lingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
via:popular language wikipedia
april 2011 by ignatz

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Inherently funny words
via:popular wikipedia language
april 2011 by ignatz

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Google Transliteration

transliteration, not just translation

google language tools webtoys
april 2011 by ignatz

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BRYAN GARNER - Vice Magazine

interview with usage god

usage language
december 2010 by ignatz

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Uncanny valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

never knew the origin of this phrase. seems to be very misused, then.

robots uncannyvalley wikipedia phrase language
september 2009 by ignatz

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Language Log » Fucking shut the fuck up

The main syntactic problem is to determine whether the fuck is being used as an pleonastic (semantically empty) direct object of shut or as a pre-head modifier of the preposition phrase (PP) headed by up.

grammar syntax language swearing linguistics yes
july 2009 by ignatz

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Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read - life - 27 May 2009 - New Scientist

unsolved and semi-solved mysteries of ancient writing

language history writing linguistics archaeology
may 2009 by ignatz

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The No Cussing Club Let's Chill on all the Profanity, Cursing, Swearing, and Cussing

Ya Wanna Hang with Us? Don't Cuss!

wtf culture language curses cussing foullanguage
march 2009 by ignatz

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History of Hoagies, Submarine Sandwiches, Po' Boys Sandwiches, Dagwood Sandwiches, & Italian Sandwiches
food sandwich language sub hoagie hero
february 2009 by ignatz

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Orwell: Politics and the English Language

Read this at least quarterly to remind yourself of what you're exposed to every day.

politics culture writing orwell language english
january 2009 by ignatz

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Language Log » Rational use of Russian bowels

Interestingly, the "bowels" document is still on line at the web site of the European Commission.

failure language translation bowels russian
january 2009 by ignatz

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McClatchy blog: China Rises: It wasn't poetry after all

Max Planck Institute thinks they put classic Chinese poem on cover. Turns out to be strip club ad.

ha china language fail orientalism asianculture
december 2008 by ignatz

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Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

The corpus contains more than 360 million words of text, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2007, and it is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.

corpus language reference english usa linguistics dictionary via:navegador
october 2008 by ignatz

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Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a ritual language used by Jamaican Maroons while possessed by the spirits of ancestors

language wtf religion
july 2008 by ignatz

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a calque is a phrase borrowed from a language by word-for-word translation
via:britta linguistics language translation grammar
july 2008 by ignatz

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Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric

rhetoric reference language literature english
july 2008 by ignatz

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Absurd Entries in the OED

...the extremely rare moments when the OED does something that is so inexplicable that you have to close the book and check the cover to make sure that it is indeed the same book that you thought.

via:britta bibliophilia language oed dictionary lexicography blog
march 2008 by ignatz

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The famous Punch cartoon with the railway porter

"’STATION MASTER SAY, MUM, AS CATS IS ‘DOGS,’ AND RABBITS IS ‘DOGS,’ AND SO’S PARROTS; BUT THIS ’ERE ‘TORTIS’ IS A INSECT, SO THERE AIN’T NO CHARGE FOR IT!"

language punch cartoon ha 19thcentury art dialect
march 2008 by ignatz

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Blog-Media Cliches

avoid.

language cliches blogging writing
march 2008 by ignatz

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs."

buffalo grammar language linguistics wikipedia wtf ha
january 2008 by ignatz

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Language Log: How to baffle Welsh cyclists

cystitis dismount!

language welsh signs ha translation failure linguistics
december 2007 by ignatz

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