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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Category: Language
From www.ft.com
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Category: Language
From www.newyorker.com
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. Inventing new forms of speech is an almost cosmic urge that stems from what the linguist Marina Yaguello, the author of “Lunatic Lovers of Language,” calls “an ambivalent love-hate relationship. Find more articles like "Joshua Foer: John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented : The New Yorker"
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Category: Language
From www.berfrois.com
Within India, Sanskrit is promoted largely by conservative and nationalist factions, and their take on the antiquity and expressiveness of the language is rather different from anything that a linguist or a scholar could assent to about any natural language. Find more articles like "Studying Sanskrit berfrois"
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Category: Language
From www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
Languages are extremely diverse, but they are not arbitrary. Behind the bewildering, contradictory ways in which different tongues conceptualise the world, we can sometimes discern order. Linguists have traditionally assumed that this reflects the hardwired linguistic aptitude of the human brain. Find more articles like "Riddled with irregularity"
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Category: Language
From languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
Looking at the decade-by-decade ratio of counts of "communal" words to counts of "individualistic" words, it′s hard to see any serious recent trend. (Though the numbers are big enough that the increasing ratio over the past three decades (in favor of "communal" words) could probably be argued to be "statistically significant", in some sense of that so-often-meaningless phrase. Find more articles like "Language Log"
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