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Showing posts with label language evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language evolution. Show all posts
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Onomatopoeia FTW

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Given my ongoing fascination with languages, it's a little surprising that I didn't come across a paper published a while back in th...
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Monday, February 21, 2022

The lenses of language

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When we think of the word "endangered," usually what comes to mind isn't "languages," but there are a staggering num...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

Easy as A, B, C

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There's an unfortunate but natural tendency for us to assume that because something is done a particular way in the culture we were rais...
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Monday, February 17, 2020

The universal language

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Sometimes I have thoughts that blindside me. The last time that happened was three days ago, while I was working in my office and our elde...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

The origin of Antarctican

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Here's a bit of writing that should be familiar to most of you. Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum; Si þin nama gehalgod to becume þin r...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Universal languages

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If we are ever lucky enough to contact intelligent extraterrestrial life, one of the difficulties will be communicating with them -- or even...
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