Use your words
Mark Liberman, upenn.edu

I somehow missed this Bizarro comic when it first appeared:

timekiller-s:

Lynn Armitage, writing at Indian Country Today Media Network (h/t: adailyriot)

According to the Tulsa World, six Native languages once spoken in Oklahoma have disappeared and 14 are endangered. In this state with numerous tribes and languages, there is a strong effort in public schools and some universities to keep Native languages thriving.

One survey says nine different Native languages are taught in up to 34 public schools, K-12, all over Oklahoma: Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Kiowa, Osage, Pawnee and Ponca. Desa Dawson, director of World Language Education for the Oklahoma State Department of Education, says 1,355 elementary and high school students in Oklahoma are taking Native American language classes this year as their world language

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The oldest indeciphered script

fetters:

Against better judgment, I decided to listen to Daniel Everett’s interview on the Philosophy Bites podcast. I should start by saying that this is an interview from September of 2010, but as far as I can tell his positions are fundamentally the same now, so the following criticism is still…

superlinguo:

Thanks to everyone who came down last night to our Superlinguo/Cherchez La Femme salon for a lovely evening of chatting about gossip, ladies on radio, vocal mucus, teenage slang and gendered languages. Here are, as promised, links to where we found out about some of the many interesting things…

blindmen6:

Using language in a metaphorical way

 

More information on conceptual metaphor can be found at the following links:

Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language  

Conceptual Metaphor Home Page  

Conceptual Domain  

Eaglestone’s Definition of Metaphors

Interview with George Lakoff (mp3)

 

Image credit: kenji mori

ijustwanttobeperceivedthewayiam:

Ok, they’re not all quirks. Just things that are very much out of my dialect and/or just noticeable when i hear them talk.

• Christopher Eccleston pronounces [g] at the end of intervocalic [ŋ]
• Rob Morrow uses creaky voice / vocal fry / whatever-you-want-to-call-it quite often
• David Krumholtz pronounces a lot of word-initial [ʍ] (well, where there is written <wh-> i think) (i don’t pronounce [ʍ] anywhere)

thothofnorth:

mayflowrs:

thewanderingchild:

Rules and structure of Arabic calligraphy

*geometry

I really should start learning arabic sometime, maybe during summer…

wonkypop:

IPA sampler: the finished piece! I need to find a delightfully tacky frame to mount it in…