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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.

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Snow White Engrish

Looking closer at this cover of a Chinese pirate edition of Disney's 1937 animated feature Snow White, we find a couple of fine Engrish phrases. "Latinum Edition" is pretty good. But wouldn't you agree that "Still the Fairest of...

The Secrets Behind Names

The names that dot the landscape once meant something about those places.

Sing Gibberish to the Lord

I've posted a fine example of Ansiktsburk song lyrics before: listen to a song in a language you don't understand, and try to imagine that it is actually sung in your own language though with a funny accent. Then...

My Kid's an Anglophone Spaceman

"People will breathe using space suits, and at home they will have air inside their houses."

Daycare Sociolects

A dialect is split into sociolects, that have to do with social class.

Tech Note: Diacritic Characters

I've twiddled some knobs behind the scenes.

Danish Rubber Goat

I'm a big fan of Danish archaeology. In my opinion it is the best in Scandinavia, both regarding the sites they have and what they write about them. This love of Danish archaeology has been a strong incentive for...

Genes and Peoples

I disagree with Razib's interpretation of some interesting genetic studies over at Gene Expression.

English-Speaking World Catches On To Ansiktsburk Lyrical Method

Scandy readers will be very familiar with this. As we learned from "Hatten Är Din", "Ansiktsburk", "Fiskpinnar" and other Turk Hits back in 2000, you can get wonderfully absurd results if you listen to a song in a foreign language...

The Star of Al-Qaeda

Does Al-Qaeda have its own star in the sky?

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