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languagehat.com : THE POETIC FROG.
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October 10, 2007. Has a typically informative post. About two words for ‘frog’ in Japanese, kaeru. He says “The common answer is that kawazu. Is the ‘old word’ that got replaced by the ‘new word’ kaeru. Would probably have been forgotten by all but the specialists by now (much like tazu. If it weren’t for one thing: the Dark Side of the Moon. Of traditional Japanese poetry, that one haikai by Bashō that everyone knows…. Furuike ya/ Kawazu tobikomu/ mizu no oto. Old pond/ Frog jumps in/ Sound of water.
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languagehat.com : Shvitzer.
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August 1, 2015. Kobi wrote me with the following interesting question:. In Hebrew people use the word שויצר to describe a person who boasts. I found the word in Raphael’s dictionary. But I have no idea if it’s a credible source. Verb, participle ge…t,. Adjectival form with -ik, adverbial complementdurkh. Noun, plural in -s, gender m,. Comes from and if there is more to know about this word. I wonder too; anybody know? August 1, 2015 at 10:25 am. Dmitry Pruss (aka MOCKBA). August 1, 2015 at 10:30 am.
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languagehat.com : Evidence of Dependency Length Minimization.
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Evidence of Dependency Length Minimization. August 8, 2015. Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, and Edward Gibson have a new paper that looks intriguing: “ Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages. 8221; (published online before print PNAS, August 3, 2015, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1502134112); the “Significance” box says:. There are popularized accounts of it by Michael Balter at. 8220; All languages have evolved to have this in common. August 8, 2015 at 11:37 pm. A lot has been writte...
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languagehat.com : Russians in America: The Third Wave.
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Russians in America: The Third Wave. August 9, 2015. Professor Thomas Beyer of Middlebury has a very useful website, Russians in America: The Third Wave. His front page begins:. In 1972 Joseph Brodsky (Иосиф Бродский). Leaves the Soviet Union and comes to settle in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the previous year Carl and Ellendea Proffer found Ardis. And would begin publishing. He says “there were in fact two emigrations, largely separate and distinct,” one of Jews who were finally able to escape a...In both c...
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languagehat.com : The St. Petersburg English Review.
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The St. Petersburg English Review. August 2, 2015. Looking for something else (as usual), I stumbled upon something that startled me considerably:. The St. Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Science. And that turns out not to be an isolated phenomenon; checking Google Books further I learned from. People, Languages and Cultures in the Third Millennium: Book of Proceedings, 2000 FEELTA International Conference. The St. Petersburg English Review of Literature: The Art and Science. In the...
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languagehat.com : Netochka Nezvanova.
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August 6, 2015. I’m only two-thirds of the way through Dostoyevsky’s first attempt at a novel (as opposed to a повесть, a short novel or long story), Неточка Незванова. Is a prime exhibit in the case against the Flaubertian obsession with perfection in a literary work. The hell with perfection, say I. After finishing Avdotya Panaeva’s Семейство Тальниковых (The Talnikov family—see this post. Before I started reading, the only thing I knew about. 8221; melodrama, I’ll end by directing your attention...
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languagehat.com : BEGINNINGS.
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July 31, 2002. The start of a Robert Irwin. Review (intriguingly titled “Arabian Antwerp”) in the June 28, 2002 Times Literary Supplement. 8220;In his Origines Antwerpianae. There you have human egomania and illogic in a nutshell: My language is the best language, and the original language to boot! There are many examples, but I like the obscure specificity of this one. July 3, 2003 at 12:52 pm. The sad thing about Goropism is that within it lie the seeds of the evil nexus of nationalism, racism, and lin...
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languagehat.com : SIX MONTHS OF LANGUAGEHAT.
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SIX MONTHS OF LANGUAGEHAT. January 31, 2003. It feels a little silly celebrating a semianniversary, but everybody knows blog years are like dog years. (However, a book cannot be blog-eared. But I digress.) I worked hard on my first post. Wanting to avoid the “Testing… testing… hey, this thing works! Or a combination of the two (I’m thinking of the mysterious aa. 8216;s contributions to my Bad Etymology. Thread) and I’ll direct specific thanks to Songdog. For early encouragement, to Avva. 8220;One of the ...
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languagehat.com : Panaeva’s Talnikov Family.
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Panaeva’s Talnikov Family. July 12, 2015. My patient crawl through nineteenth-century Russian literature has brought me another unexpected reward, Avdotya Panaeva. 8216;s Семейство Тальниковых. The Talnikov family]. It’s an account of a girl’s very difficult childhood, apparently autobiographical, and it’s usually discussed in terms like this (I quote Susan Conner Olson’s article on Panaeva in. Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. 8220;Her first work,. Followed the early intention of.
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languagehat.com : YOUNG WOMEN VS. NORMS.
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YOUNG WOMEN VS. NORMS. February 17, 2013. Gabriel Arana has an excellent short piece. On the cranky reaction of “stodgy old white dudes” like NPR’s Bob Garfield to linguistic innovations like “vocal fry,” or “creaky voice” (see the link for a description and video clip):. Thanks for the link, Paul.). February 17, 2013 at 8:55 pm. February 17, 2013 at 9:15 pm. February 17, 2013 at 9:36 pm. February 17, 2013 at 9:38 pm. February 18, 2013 at 1:37 am. Of course) — I just found that example curious. Was the o...
