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Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: The garden path to heaven
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Stæfcræft and Vyākaraṇa. Germanic, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European philology and general linguistics. Saturday, August 4, 2012. The garden path to heaven. There is a Facebook page called "I Miss Someone Really Bad Who Is In Heaven". My initial reading was:. Villain: "If only my parents could see me now.". Sidekick: "Sir, I am sure they're smiling down from evil heaven.". I was somewhat disappointed to find that this is not the intended reading. Posted by be slayed. August 5, 2012 at 8:43 PM. Septentrional...
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Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: August 2015
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Stæfcræft and Vyākaraṇa. Germanic, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European philology and general linguistics. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Hindi/English punning: lions, tigers, and shares. Thinking about the English idiom. The biggest piece", this could be nicely misrepresented in mixed Hindi/English as the lion's शेर. Śer] (शेर being Hindi for "lion".). Posted by be slayed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hindi/English punning: lions, tigers, and shares. General Linguistics Blogs and Fora. The Web of Language. Index o...
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Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: July 2012
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Stæfcræft and Vyākaraṇa. Germanic, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European philology and general linguistics. Saturday, July 28, 2012. Singular "they" and Minecraft. A quickish note about a recent posting. Notch, the original creator of Minecraft. The linguistic angle is his closing footnote, which relates to referring to Minecraft's default character as him. Of course, has been an "up-and-coming" genderless pronoun for at least a few hundred years now:. Trespasses. [Tyndale's translation, 1526]. There's not a man.
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Tenser, said the Tensor: LSA 2008
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Laquo; This I Believe #27. This I Believe #28 ». Wednesday December 19, 2007. It's that time of year again time to organize the fourth (! Annual language-blogger get-together at the upcoming LSA meeting in Chicago. In. We've had trouble finding a time that works for everybody, though we do seem to end up with a pretty big group nonetheless. I think Grant Barrett. Do we want to get ambitious and try to schedule a dinner? I am The Tensor. And I approve this post. TrackBack URL for this entry:. There seems ...
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Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: January 2011
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Stæfcræft and Vyākaraṇa. Germanic, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European philology and general linguistics. Monday, January 24, 2011. Good-bye, Good Luck, and Godspeed: On linguistic (de)secularisation. What exactly does someone mean if they wish you Godspeed. Here's one answer, courtesy of comedian Eddie Izzard:. Source: Eddie Izzard, Circle. In fact, the speed. Refers to one of speed. S other early senses, namely "success" or "(good) luck, fortune, prosperity". The OED. S [1] earliest citation for Godspeed.
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Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: Linus Torvalds: " There aren't enough swear-words in the English language", or, perkeleen vittupää
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Stæfcræft and Vyākaraṇa. Germanic, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European philology and general linguistics. Monday, July 15, 2013. Linus Torvalds: " There aren't enough swear-words in the English language", or, perkeleen vittupää. Linus Torvalds, commenting on a Linux commit. Had to result to swearing in (his semi-native. Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:40:24 -0700. Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 3.11. On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:. Guarantee IDT page alignment. What the F*CK, guys? And I don't th...
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Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: May 2011
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Stæfcræft and Vyākaraṇa. Germanic, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European philology and general linguistics. Wednesday, May 18, 2011. The Rapture, now with more Harpies. Mouse-over text: But to us there is but one God, plus or minus one. - 1 Corinthians 8:6±2.). The first panel is really the funniest bit: a pun on raptor. Referencing the Jurassic Park. But in fact, rapture. Are not only phonologically similar, they're also etymologically related: both deriving from Latin rapt-. To seize, to snatch, to carry off".
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Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: Singular "they" and Minecraft
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Stæfcræft and Vyākaraṇa. Germanic, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European philology and general linguistics. Saturday, July 28, 2012. Singular "they" and Minecraft. A quickish note about a recent posting. Notch, the original creator of Minecraft. The linguistic angle is his closing footnote, which relates to referring to Minecraft's default character as him. Of course, has been an "up-and-coming" genderless pronoun for at least a few hundred years now:. Trespasses. [Tyndale's translation, 1526]. There's not a man.
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Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa: "Oh, no, maadarcho-": On subtitling vulgarities in Hindi films
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Stæfcræft and Vyākaraṇa. Germanic, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European philology and general linguistics. Monday, June 18, 2012. Oh, no, maadarcho-": On subtitling vulgarities in Hindi films. John McWhorter, in his recent New Republic. Article, "Gosh, Golly, Gee: Mitt Romney's verbal stylings". Discusses what he appears to view as Romney's over-sanitised style of public speaking as a marker of inauthenticity. Lucy Ferriss, in her post "Jeepers! On the Lingua Franca site, is somewhat sceptical of this argument.
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Kickstarting - Henry
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Feb 8th, 2012 03:51 am. I've never really felt compelled to poke around on Kickstarter before—well, OK, being unemployed was a notable part of that, and now I feel like I have actual money to actually spend on actual things. Or, I suppose, in the case of Kickstarter, potential things. At any rate, I've thrown in my two cents for. Also, speaking of kicking things until they start again, I'm going to try resuming my posting at my old work journal. Please comment there using OpenID.
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