Ruff! Meow! Ssss! Choo choo!
Because it’s fun in a language/culture/kids way.
Posted by Deana in Language on June 8th, 2005 | Comments Off
A Blanguage Blog
Actually, it’s called Language Log but if they can do alliteration, so can I. I have decided to list this under “Language” since “Blog” is in my title.
Posted by Deana in Language on February 3rd, 2005 | Comments Off
whistle click beep
A recent study has shown that a whistling language developed by shepherds in the Canary Islands is “processed by the brain in the same way as ordinary speech”:http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=598140. It implies that the brain can process other non-verbal communication as language, too. If you’ve read David Brin’s “Startide Rising”:http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue154/classic.html, this should ring a bell. (If you [...]
Posted by Chris in Language on January 6th, 2005 | 5 Comments »
How About a Little Linguistic Anthropology?
I LOVE this kind of stuff. It fascinates me. No, we don’t all share the same number system, nor even the ability to draw a straight line.
Posted by Deana in Language on August 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Punctuation is important.
A while back, I was talking to Steve about an example of how punctuation can make all the difference. Share and enjoy. UPDATE: I originally posted this with just the link, but linkrot set in and made it less than useful. To avoid that again, I’m going to post the examples here. Note the effect [...]
Posted by Chris in Fun, Language on June 11th, 2004 | 3 Comments »
