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Category: Language
The other day, and I kid you not, I saw someone say to someone else "would you like a soda" and the person stared back and said "why would I want a soda" and a third party repeated the question, only saying "would you like...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:50 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
An overview of the classic literature in my field of study.
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Category: Language
At TEDxDubai, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL?) It's a passionate defense of translating and sharing ideas....
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:14 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain and Behavior
Human infants require more care than they should, if we form our expectations based on closely related species (apes, and more generally, Old World simian primates). It has been said that humans are born three months early. This is not accurate. It was thought that...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:30 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Language phylogeny
... of English:...
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Category: Bible as ethnography
So, a while ago, Ben Zvanwas talking about doing something with the Bible, which would involve processing the text through some filters and recompiling it. This sort of thing has always interested me: Not recompiling the bible, but rather, textual analysis in general using the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:36 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Language
The Queen's got a point: (Hat tip, Jennifer Ouellette)...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:07 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Language
Or ... What I had for breakfast. I just got the Caribou Coffee trivia question wrong. I got it so wrong that the Barista stared at me in disbelief for a moment, then blurted out the correct answer with audible snark and disappointment. If I...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:17 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods II
I'm very please that my discussion of the "we can't ever know what a word is" Internet meme has elicited a response from Mark Liberman at Language Log. (here) Mark was very systematic in his comments, so I will be very systematic in my responses....
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Category: Language
I am looking at the question: How many words are there in a language? I'd like to know for languages in general, comparatively, and for pedagogical reasons, in some well known western language which may as well be English. What I found quite incidentally is...
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Orac 02.13.2012
Orac 01.26.2012
Tim Lambert 02.01.2012
PZ Myers 02.02.2012
ERV 11.26.2011
