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Promises and Trust, Words and Linguistics
2009-02-13 21:34:00
Following my previous post, I very much appreciated metal sunflower's response:This is an open letter, and if I thought that it would be welcome, I?d have started it with the words ?Dear Incurable Hippy?. But if I?m angry with people, the last thing I want is for them to be civil without saying anything helpful. So I?m not going to do it here.What I would like to say is that the Sheffield Fems as a group have been wrong, and have done wrong, and that I, personally, have done wrong. And for all of that, I am sorry.I don?t want to try to offer any glib explanations.I have been wrong. I haven?t done enough. I saw your post last time you publicly showed how angry you were. I saw it and brought it up at a meeting and asked that something be done about it. I didn?t follow up on it. I should have done. I should have kept asking, and kept looking for different venues, and kept insisting that we did something about the pub, and I didn?t do any of those things. I don?t hold the Sheffield Fem...
The Moriori and the Dangers of Pacifism
2008-11-27 11:10:00
Updated November 28:The saga of Moriori is instructive.The Maori have long been known as ferocious headhunters and cannibals who had one of the cruelest and evillest cultures on Earth. The Moiriori seem to be a Maori split dating back to about 1500 or so. They left New Zealand and colonized the Chatham Islands. The Chatham Islands are small, very cold and isolated, and there is not a lot of food other than from the sea.Moiriori legend has it that initially, widespread tribal warfare, headhunting and cannibalism was practiced as the normative cruel Maori culture. On such a small island, this savagery was disastrous, and soon the population plummeted to near extinction. A leader arose among the Moiriori, Nunuku-whenua, who preached a new doctrine of extreme pacifism, Nunuku's Law. Nunuku's Law was strictly adhered to 300 years.Fighting was allowed between males, but it had to be conducted with each armed with a stick the width of a finger. At the first sign of blood, the duel was ca...
The Origin of the Amerindians
2008-10-18 14:10:00
The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here.Updated October 18. I am republishing this post because I added a lot of new photos and text. Enjoy.As we noted in an earlier post, the view is converging that Amerindians can be traced back to the Altai Mountains in Southwest Siberia where China, Mongolia and Russia all come together.Yet another study found that of all Asians, the Turkic-speaking tribes of the Sayan Mountains (west of the Altai Mountains and north of northwestern Mongolia) are the closest to the Amerindians. This group includes the Shor, the Tofalar, the Altai, the Khakass, the Soyots and the Tuva. The Mongolic-speaking Buryats are also included.The Altai live in the Sayan Uplands. The Soyots and the Buryats are from the Eastern Sayan Mountains. The Shor and the Khakass are from the northwest slopes of the Sayans. The Tofalar are from the northern slopes of the Eastern Sayans...
Some Remarks on the Minority Languages Question
2008-10-12 08:53:00
The recent posts on minority languages have elicited some interesting comments. Commenting on The Record of Communist Language Policy, silver, a Serb, notes: In Eastern Europe, a similar thing occurred with the fall of the Communist regimes. In general, nationalist regimes took their place and quickly began attacking minorities and minority tongues. This has been most pronounced in the former Yugoslavia.I'm not aware of Serbian nationalists attempting to suppress Hungarian or Albanian. Even throughout the supposedly nationalist Milosevic era I think Hungarians were able to graduate university in Hungarian (and, of course, Albanian in Kosovo). I'm pretty sure Albanian has fared better in Macedonia under independence than during Yugoslavia; little-known Vlach certainly has. A new poster, A Jew Coming to Get You, who will be tolerated as long as he behaves, notes: A relevant book discussing Soviet nationality policy is called Affirmative Action Empire. Regarding the Chinese dialect...
Genes and Language Match Well
2008-10-08 21:00:00
This post will look into whether or not genes and language line up well. The question may seem academic, but it is important for linguists in the battle for whether or not there is anything to the large macro-families that the "lumpers" are creating.It's yet another skirmish in the lumpers versus splitters battle in Historical Linguistics. Historical in the branch that deals with language families, language relationships and reconstruction of old languages that are no longer spoken.The debate has heated up in recent years due to the prominence of lumper theories publicized by the late Joseph Greenberg and his followers and disciples, notably Merrit Ruhlen at Stanford University. Ruhlen and Greenberg use a technique called mass comparison which has come under a lot of wild and irrational abuse, but seems to be a valid scientific method in the hands of an expert.Greenberg used to come up with the four major language families of Africa a long time ago and his classification there has ...
Migration and Language Policy
2008-10-07 03:25:00
In comments on the The Record of Communist Language Policy post, James Schipper notes astutely: One very important aspect of language policy is migration. The more migration there is within a multilingual state, the more minority languages are threatened. If Russians are free to move move into Latvia, then the Latvian language will be in danger, even if Latvian remains an official language in Latvia.We are seeing this in Tibet too. The influx of Chinese in Tibet is the real danger to the Tibetan language. In the capital of Tibet, the Chinese are already the majority. The smaller a people is, the more they have to be able to control immigration if they want to survive as a nation.Of course, by making its territory rigidly unilingual, the minority can create a linguistic barrier to immigration. If Latvian is the sole language of administration and instruction in Latvia, then Russians will think twice before settling there.For minority languages there are two basic rules: concentrate ...
The Record of Communist Language Policy
2008-10-07 01:30:00
A commenter posting on the Cool Neo-Latin Websites post critiques what he sees as a disconnect in my views: That's funny you support preserving small languages, because most communists do not and prefer centralization and one mass-language for everyone.For instance, the communists in the USSR did much to stamp out local languages by forcing all people living within its boundaries to learn Russian first and foremost in state schools (which they were forced to attend).They did somewhat try to preserve local languages in the so called "autonomous regions" within the Soviet empire, but still many local languages were lost in the forced shuffle from locally-based economies to the centralized/state-run economy where Russian reigned supreme.In China a similar situation is taking place...many languages and dialects have been lost and are continuing to be lost as the communists there forcibly centralize everything in sight and institute Mandarin over all else. I respond: First of all, I w...
Cool Neo-Latin Websites
2008-10-06 07:47:00
Updated October 6:Forgive me a bit while I trip off into obscure Romance linguistics here for a bit, but I'm really getting off on this little journey.Here is the website for La Quotidiana, an online and printed daily newspaper in the Romansch language. This is the closest Romance language of all to Latin itself.Below are a couple of websites entirely in the Ladin language. Ladin is spoken in northeastern Italy, in the Eastern Alps. The specific range is called the Dolomites. Ladin is a weird-looking language. At first you think it's French, then...no, it can't be. Wait, it's Italian, no, not quite. You keep thinking Romanian, but that's wrong too. The one thing that keeps hitting you is that it looks so much like Classic Latin.Noeles.net is said to be the only online Ladin newspaper. Ladins da Friul is even better. It's also entirely in Ladin, but it has lots of really cool photos.The people in this region are isolated in small mountain valleys, wear strange but fascinating ...
Really Cool Friulian Site
2008-10-03 20:22:00
Updated October 4:This very well-done site is all in the Friulian language. Has lots of good graphics and tons of great links. I can't read it, but it's cool to look at it. If you can read Friulian (or Furlan in Friulian) give it a go. It's also interesting how many bloggers are blogging in Friulian.Italy now accepts Friulian as a minority language and schools are now offering it as a course. It's still spoken by 794,000 speakers in the region. It's spoken in far northeastern Italy. Friulian is closest to Ladin and Romansch. That is, it's straight up from Vulgar Latin along with those two. Those three languages are probably the closest to pure Latin of any of the Romance languages.There are quite a few Friulian speakers in Canada. Until recently, the region was quite poor, hence many speakers left the area. There are also some speakers in Argentina and Brazil. Good overview here.
Words of the Day
2008-08-08 09:47:00
Etiolated and Pecksniffian.Both used in the comments section by avant-garde artist whodareswings.Etiolated refers to what happens to a plant when it is deprived of sunlight. The stems grow tall and wiry and chlorophyll seems to leave the plant, giving it a ghostly, green-white look. Whoredare attempted to use it describe people, and said it meant "effete", but I could not find any good definitions.Pecksniffian is a wonderful word. It refers to a character, or three characters, in the 1844 Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit. I've never read the book, but the Wikipedia synopsis was pretty delightful. That man could write a story!The online dictionary defines it as:Unctuously hypocritical, sanctimonious.And offers the following example:"His book suffers from excessively long harangues against Pecksniffian prigs and temperance types who, he claims, are still trying to ruin our fun." (Mark D. Fefer, Seattle Weekly, January 22, 2003).It describes the main character as:Seth Pecksnif...
How do women write space?
2008-05-23 14:08:00
“In the second half of the 20th century space has become a reference point of cultural debates. Feminist critics have been particularly receptive to the new findings in this field, and set out to explore the specificity of the relationship between gendered subjects and the spaces they inhabit”. A one day conference on 7th March 2009 ...
Her Make is Perfect
2008-05-15 18:12:00
A seminar interrogating women’s dramatic writing, text and performance (1600-1830) is planned for September 2008, at the University of Surrey. Elizabeth Hartley (1751-1824) image from the conference website Friday 5th September at Chawton House Library and Saturday 6th September at the University of Surrey. Keynote speakers: Professor Alison Findlay Professor Fiona Ritchie and Professor Gweno Williams Further conference details see the ...
Tiki-Tiki Has 250 Words?
2008-05-05 06:32:00
Forget it.Via Marilyn Vos Savant in today's Parade Magazine, we are told that Tiki-Tiki, otherwise known as Sranan Togo, a creole with 100,000 native speakers and many more second languages speakers on Suriname, has the smallest vocabulary of any known language - with only 250 words. This claim is credulously repeated elsewhere on the Net.It is true that Internet dictionaries of Tiki-Tiki do show few words, possibly as few as several hundred. The SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) page says that Sranan Togo has maybe 3,000-4,000 words, as opposed to hundreds of thousands of words for major world languages (Vos Savant notes that English has the largest vocabulary at 250,000).Many of those English words are neologisms, that is, new words that are being created on the fly, especially on places like the Internet. I actually think that English has more than 250,000 words, but I can't prove it. As slang and whatnot proliferates in a widely spoken language, it gets pretty darn hard ...
Great Site on Endangered Languages of Europe
2008-05-04 10:27:00
Great site on endangered languages of Europe. Tapani Salinem, a Finnish linguist, has done a bang-up job on this stuff. This report was prepared for UNESCO.The last good report I read on this subject was a great book published in 1976 called something like The Endangered Languages of Europe. Great little book if you can ever find it, and it covers pretty much most of the larger ones anyway.Salinem is decidedly pessimistic, but I am not so much so. Furthermore, he often pessimistically notes that this or that language is heavily contaminated by some larger nearby language that the speaker usually also speaks. I don't think that this is all that relevant. Most modern languages nowadays are full of borrowings, often from English, for all sorts of modern words.What matters is that you are speaking. Borrowing is a natural phenomenon, whether for lexis, syntax, phonology, morphology or whatever. It's been happening for 1000's of years. He often notes that not many children are learning...
Endangered languages in the Limelight
2008-05-02 17:20:00
The latest Limelight feature from Intute: Arts and Humanities is about “Endangered languages”. The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London is currently holding its annual Endangered Languages week (30 April - 7 May 2008), with seminars, workshops, film screenings and an open day. It’s estimated ...
Spot the Language 19
2008-04-19 11:50:00
The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here. Updated April 23:?????? (?????) ??????????? ?? ??????? ????? ??????????????????? ????????. ?????? ?? ?????????, ?? ??????? ? ?????????? ????????? ? ?????????? ?? ?????? ????. ????????? ?????? ?????, ?????? ??????? ?? ??, ????? ??????????? ???????? ? ????????? ?, ??????, ??? ?????????? ???????? ????????, ??????:- ???????, ???? ?? ??????? ?????? ???? ????? ??? ?????????????? ????? ?? ????? ??????? ??? ??????????? ??????????????? ?????????????? ????????? ?????? ????? ??????. ??????? ????????? ????????? ?????????? ????????? ????????. ???? ??????????? ? ?????????.- ? ???? ? ??????? ??????? ????,- ???????? ?????? ?????.- ? 19.00 ? ????????? ?????? ? ????? ?????. ?? ????????? ???????? ? ??????? ?? ????? ??????? ?????? ?????? ? ?????????. ? ? ?????? ? ???????????? ??????? ? ? ??? ??? ??????????.- ??? ???? ? ????????? ?????????????? ?????????.- ? ???,...
Spot the Language 18
2008-04-19 10:55:00
The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here. Updated April 23: Etu istoriyu mne rasskazal drug, kotoryi rabotaet v predstavitel'stve sotovoi kompanii v nashem gorode. Prihoditsya emu po dolgu sluzhby obshat'sya s narodom iz chisla novyh i podobnye istorii u nego neredki. Prihodit kak-to k nim klientka - vsya na pontah (iz novyh), i prinosit svoi sotovyi v tresnutom korpuse. Prosit pochinit'.Stali uznavat',kak mol poluchilos', chto korpus tresnul. V otvet poluchayut ves'ma original'nyi otvet: v unitaz upal (eto che-zh ona s nim delala v tualete?!). Nu ladno, otdali na remont - tam ego zalatali, vodu vylili, v obshem remontnikam prishlos' podolbat'sya. Prihodit ona zabirat' otremontirovannyi sotovik, nu i dlya profilaktiki ei govoryat, chto ne stoit bol'she ronyat' apparat v unitaz, chto tam aktivnaya sreda i vse takoe... I tut klientka vozmushenno proiznosit:- Eto u VAS TAM ...
Spot The Language 17
2008-04-17 11:40:00
The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here. Updated April 23: da ?e mal razclenim tisto o tehniki - tehnika je en redkih "objektivnih" kazateljev kdo je ka?n kitarist - je neka kvantiteta...recimo pa da ni kvaliteta glasbenika - in ravno zato, ker tehnika in nadrkanost ne doloca o tem, kdo je bolj?i je ?e tolk bolj nesmislno govort, da je nekdo bolj?i?! kaj sploh pomeni bolj?i?! da se nas je globje dotaknu s svojo muzko - to je popolnoma subjektivna ocena...zato je za moje pojme ful brezveze o tem govort..... mene pac folk navdu?i in povem, al pa mi gre ob dolocenih wannabejih na bruhanje - tisto pa se trudim skrivat - ampak vcas vseeno udari na dan....p.s. Malmsteen je meni en najvecjih kretenov med kitaristi (v?ec mi je ena plata + ene 3 komadi ...poslu?am ga 1x na 6 let - po obna?anju pa je totaln kmetavzar...) - zame je ideal kitarista nekje med Jason Backerjem, Marty Friedmanom in...
English Phonetics and Phonology for Non-Native Speakers
2008-04-04 20:00:00
English Phonetics and Phonology for Non-Native Speakers, which is authored by David Brett, provides many stimulating exercises on English pronunciation and phonetics/phonology. Features: ? Covers vowel sounds, the articulation of speech sounds, aspects of connected speech, word and phrasal stress, silent letters, phonemic transcription, and intonation ? Flash-based, sound-integrated exercises accompanied by illustrated lessons ? Online Unicode phonemic typewriter, capable of producing IPA symbols ready to insert into texts Site URL: http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phon-ology/page%20with%20frames2.htm-
African linguistics: What about the ?Declaration of Linguistic Rights??
2008-04-01 14:44:00
A new article by Don Osborn at Multidisciplinary Perspectives What about the ?Declaration of Linguistic Rights?? Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Don There are probably not many people who have heard of the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights (UDLR). The whole concept of linguistic rights is not widely known or discussed outside of some ?MINEL? (minority, ...
Ghana: Summer School on Documentary Linguistics in West Africa
2008-03-31 11:52:00
Summer School on Documentary Linguistics in West Africa University of Education, Winneba, Ghana 16-27 July 2008 A 10-day summer school on language documentation will be held prior to the 26th West African Languages Congress (WALC) of the West African Linguistics Society (WALS/SLAO) at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, 28th July to 3nd August 2008. ...
Spot The Language 14
2008-03-31 06:51:00
We normally like to use only Latin scripts, except when we play Spot the Script. But in this case, we will use a well-known script that is actually used by a 76 languages, mostly from a former large country. We will not play any tricks on you here - this language is one of the largest and most famous ones using the script, and it is fairly common on the Net.We are not playing Spot the Script here; it's obvious to any intelligent person. You have to figure out the language using the script, but the clues are pretty easy. And make sure you know what you are doing before you click that link.? ????? ?????????, ? ???????? ??????? ?????? ???????, ??????? ?????, ???? ????????, ???? ????? ?????????. ??! ?????? ??? ??????. ?? ???????? ??? ???? ????, ?? ???? ???, ????????? ???????????. ??? ?????! ???????? ?????? ???? ?????, ?? ????? ???? ??????????. ???????? ? ???????? ???? ?????????, ? ???? ??? ? ??????????? ?????? ?????. ???? ???, ? ? ????! ? ? ??? ?????? ?????????: ???? ???, ???????? ????...
Spot The Language 13
2008-03-18 22:21:00
The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here. Updated March 24, 2008:Gasit initial pe L.e nu cred ca filmul este real dar totusi myke nu mai posta cacaturi de genul asta. Si eu postez multe cacaturi dar de obicei sunt text (vezi postul cu fetusi). Uneori imi doresc sa nu fi renuntat la drepturile de admin ...link dar de ce cacat sa te uiti la snufuritrecand pesteun mic documentarATENTIE! FILM DE O CRUZIME INCREDIBILAUn filmulet facut de mine pentru un proiect pe care il coordonez la facultate:El se adreseaza copiilor cu varste cuprinse intre 2 si 6 ani si incercam sa le inlaturam teama de medic! NU recomand celor care au mancat sau celor sensibili. Film din categoria snufuri.Bob Geldolf(actorul principal din The Wall) are o melodie foarte interesanta. Clipul e dureros.Turnul ala se vede perfect de la mine din clasa/banca. A fost si la stiri faza asta. Orientarea oamenilor veniti la plimb...
Spot the Language 12
2008-03-18 19:38:00
The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here. Updated March 24, 2008:Történelem, nyelv és magyar múlt esetén nagyon sok cikk kifejezetten rágalmazó, magyarellenes hangnemet üt meg a szerkeszt?k és els?sorban a gyakran önkinevezett adminisztrátorok összetételéb?l logikusan következ?en. Nem is említve a hollókoszt mesén való hosszas rágódást, és az er?teljes történelemhamisításokat, pl. a II. világháború történetét illet?en, az ávósíz? adatgy?jtögetést az elnyomóknak nem tetsz? szerkeszt?k írásaiból, az elnyomókra annyira jellemz? tudatos hamisításokat, fasisztázást, az aljas cinizmusában utolérhetetlen "felszabadítás" szó gyakori használatát, a gy?lölködést minden nemzet ellen (egyet kivéve), a nemzetgyilkos liberalizmus elvtelen dics?ítését és "jó dolog"-ként való feltüntetését, stb....A technikai színvonal nem különösen magas, pl. táblázatokat fáradságosan kézzel kell beadni, helyesírás...
Spot the Script 2
2008-03-18 18:47:00
The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. The famous Russian neo-Nazi video is on this blog here. Updated March 24, 2008:??????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-???????????????????????????????-?????????????????????????????Ob-viously, this is a Northeast A...
Egyptology in the Limelight
2008-03-18 13:00:00
An Intute Limelight feature for Egyptology resources is now available.
Spot the Language 11
2008-03-17 05:09:00
Hola!! oohh tu pelo!!*o* ke lindo!! te cuidas montones...besitos! te kiero!! u.u Bye!beia cmo siempre mi nińa grande jaja suuper grande ajkajka son horas! jaja...me wearas por siempre...lo se ^^ uxas no t enferma u.u sanate pa parlar por msn viteh =D jeje cuiate lokilla ^^SEXTO OLA ATS RE SEXY EN ESA DOTO ;) T VAS A MORIR CUANDO SEAS VIEJA COMO TODOS, JAAJbesoooEMPEZA A CONOCER GENTE NUEVA COMENTANDOLES COMO SOS, QUE TE GUSTA HACER, Y MÁS.También te podes ganar un fotolog Gold todos los meses..!!hola linda fotito ^^ pucha q mal q estis enfermita ¬¬ ya cuidesebesos xau!!muy linda demasiado linda bebe extrańo esas conversaciones de msnżporque me eliminaste??? xaupsweno weno el sabado ^^ cn mi claire d mi (L) k la amo mas k la cresta sisisisisis y peliando cn javito ... weno esop punto apartesolop esopkataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa zorri no t jui a ver para tu cumple T_Tt juro k no pude perdonam hrmanita savs k t kiero ;Ptralalalala foto wna ¬¬ haaaaaaaaaaaaa toy emferma!!! para bariar ¬¬`tr...
Spot the Script 1
2008-03-17 04:13:00
? ?????????? , ???? ? ?????????? ??? ?????? ??????? ?? ???????????, ??????? ??? ????? ??? ???????? ?????? ????. ???? ?????? ??? ?????? ??????? ??? ????? ??? ??? ???????? ?????????? ???? ?????? ??? ??????? ??? ???? ???? ????? ??? ????????? ? ????????? ???.?? ???????? ????? ?? ?????? ??? ??? ???? ???????. ?? ?????????? ??????????? .??? ?????? ?????? ????? ??? ?????. ????????? ??? ? ????????? ???.??????? ?????? ?? ??????????. ?? ????????? ??? ?????????. ?? ???????? ??? ??? ????? ???? ??? ????. ????? ??? ??? ? ?????? ???? ?????? ???????????? ??? ????????????. ????? ??? ????????????? ??? ?????? ??? ?????. ?? ??????? ?????????? ??? ???? ???? ?????? ??? ?? ?????? ????????? ?? ??? ??? ??? ??????? ????. ?? ????????? ??? ????? ??? ???????? ??? ????? ??????? ???? ??? ???? ???? ????? ?? ???????? ?? ??????????? ???? ??? ????????????.!!!!!!!!??? ????????? ???? apd, ???? ??? ????? ? ????????? ??????????? (sic); ?? ??????;?????? ????????? ???? ?????? ??? ?? ??? ??????????? ???? ???????, ??? ???????...
Spot the Language 10
2008-03-17 03:11:00
Sitemizdeki videolar Youtube'den gelmektedir.Ülkemizin içinde bulundu?u bu günlerde milletimizin duyarl? oldu?u y?k?c?, bölücü, irticai içerikli videolar çok s?k olarak Youtube'a eklenmektedir. Biz mümkün oldu?u kadar bu tip videolar? engellemeye çal???yoruz. Sizden de bu konuda yard?m istiyoruz, hep beraber bu videolar?n engellenmesi için el ele verelim.The Sick man and the Young (Men), muddy coffee and Empires, famous Straits and Christian caves, antipathy with the Slavs, stopped at the Gates. Vilayets and Circassain Beauties, genocides, Deniers and Revisionists. The perils of ultranationalism and an eternal war with the Orthodox, yet the Church was nearly birthed here, so go figure.Bernard Lewis is fluent in this language, and such fluency, not too common amongst Anglos, is what fueled much of his fine scholarship. From a link to a certain video on this blog, once again. Spoken in or near Europe by millions.Even my Mom got this one, so if you guys can't get this one, that's a...
Spot the Language 9
2008-03-15 18:22:00
Updated March 16, 2008:Keby sa niekto pýtal, pre?o by? antifa?istom. (o.i.)(Mimochodom práve o tom je najnov?í výplod na Odpore - ale tam sa fuckt ni? nedá ?íta? tak?e ka?lite na to, ?koda ?asu a zasmia? sa dá aj inak)Video, kde ruskí neonáckovia popravujú 2 "immigrantov" - Tad?ika a Dagestanca...Je to dos? hard, tak?e k?udne potla?te svoju zvedavos?, nemusíte vidie? a vedie? v?etko :-/PS: Zdr?te sa primitívnych komentárov (hovorím vám SK kindernazi)A ?e?encov si videl ? Tam re?u hlavy piatim Rusom.Jej, tam hraje Arkona. To je moja oblubena kapela. Aj tak skladba Rus je dobra. Si pamatam ako sme ju na koncerte spievali ... to bol zazitok ...Ale spat k veci: ta poprava bola odplata za 5 ruskych vojakov, ktorych tak isto popravili. Tak najprv si o tom zisti drahy LuboSS trosku viac ...Áno ste srandisti to bez debaty... ?o by na to ve?kí ujovia náckovia povedali, ke? sa zni?ujete na úrove? "?pinavých pod?udí"... Nevyblakujete náhodou, ?e vy ste tí lep?í? Kde? Tí ?e?enci si aspo? zoberú...
Spot the Language 8
2008-03-15 08:39:00
OBS!!!!Detta community är riktat till folk i ĺldern 16 till 40. Vi vänder oss främst till gothare, synthare, hĺrdrockare och andra närliggande stilar.Känner du att du inte hör hemma inom nĺgon av dessa genre sĺ bör du kanske undvika att bli medlem i detta community och istället leta efter nĺgot annat som är mer anpassat efter din smak och din typ av människor.Om du fortfarande känner dig tillhörig sĺ hälsar vi dig hjärtligt välkommen!!!Tanken är att skall vara ett community för människor med alternativa kläd- och musikstilar som synthare, gothare, hĺrdrockare, punkare och närliggande stilar.Vĺr primära mĺlgrupp ligger mellan 16 och 40 ĺr och är därför huvudsakligen anpassad därefter. Under den sista delen av prisceremonin pĺ SEC bröt fnatic mot WCG-reglerna som säger att lagen endast ska ha pĺ sig WCG-tröjor. fnatic hade de korrekta tröjorna pĺ sig under prisutdelningen för Counter-strike, men tog av sig dem efterĺt för att göra en intervju och hann inte sätta pĺ sig dem innan det s...
Spot the Language 7
2008-03-15 08:39:00
V Americe jist? rasismus je. Ale je zajímavé, ?e a?koliv podle policejních statistik, tvo?í útoky ?erných na bílé v?t?inu rasov? motivovaných trestných ?in?, z novinových a televizních reportá?í je dojem p?ímo opa?ný. Útoky ?erných jsou nekone?n? omlouvány jejich tí?ivou sociální situací, skrytým rasismem bílých, provokacemi bílých (dobrá rada pro turisty v USA je nedívat se ?ernoch?m do o?í, je to prý výzva k boji) a kdoví ?ím je?t?. Pravdou ov?em je, ?e spole?né sou?ití n?kolika etnik najednou prost? nikomu nesv?d?í. V?dy bude n?jaká skupina dominantní a podle jejích pravidel se bude hrát. Tak je to dnes v Zimbabwe nebo v Ji?ní Africe, kde jsou b?lo?i postupn? zbavováni svých d?ív?j?ích výsad a v tichosti vyhán?ni ze zem?.Dokud budou rovnostá?i lámat lidskou p?irozenost p?es koleno a sna?it se míchat fazole a hrách dohromady, p?edstírajíc, ?e mezi nimi není rozdíl a dokonce zavírat do v?zení ty, co na odli?nosti upozorní, m??eme po?ítat s novou Jenou. Nebo Lhotou. V?dy? i u nás js...
Spot the Language 6
2008-03-15 05:43:00
Hvis du er glad for sitet og har lyst til at střtte dets fremtidige udvikling, kan du donere et valgfrit belřb her. Er gratis at bruge - dog deaktiveres den sĺkaldte LurerLog (en slags statistikfunktion, der viser, hvem der har luret pĺ din profil, billeder, og blogs) efter en mĺneds medlemsskab, med mindre du har doneret.En enkelt donation pĺ minimum 30. lĺser funktionen op igen - for evigt. Altsĺ intet tilbagevendende krav om betaling, og ingen forkrřbling af vitale funktioner. Tankegangen er, at hvis du er afhćngig af at se hvem der har luret pĺ dine ting, bruger du sitet sĺ meget, at en vis (engangs) afgift er pĺ sin plads.Som en frynsegode afstedkommer hver donation over 30. Ekstra 3 MB plads i dit fotoalbum.Donationer bliver brugt til at dćkke driftsomkostninger og investering i fremtidige udvidelser (hardware, bĺndbredde etc.)Children's stories and girls with matches, boycotts and cartoons. Dairies again, famous cows and great dogs. Hashish, hippies, freetowns and porn.And n...
Spot the Language 5
2008-03-15 05:20:00
De wilde populariteit van pedofilie thema's verhaal over erotische sites, vaak geschreven door huisvrouwen en moeders van jonge kinderen, onder andere, suggereert dat niet alleen pedofielen zijn het lezen en schrijven van dit spul.Misschien is er een verboden vrucht aspect aan dit soort verhalen. Gezien hoeveel mensen het lezen en schrijven van dit spul, ik ga ervan uit dat de meeste van hen hebben genoeg sociale controle die zij kunnen fantaseren over dergelijke dingen zonder op hen.Een recente enquęte is gebleken dat 28% van de normale, niet-pedophiliac mannen waren die door pedophilic erotische beelden (Hoe de ach doen ze mee wegkomen doet deze studies toch?) Dit toont aan dat de niet-exclusieve of niet-preferentiële attractie te pedophilic erotica is Een normale seksuele expressie voor veel mannen.Maar zodra ze over de lijn van denken tot actie, we zijn in een andere ballpark helemaal. Ik moet constateren dat pedofilie verhalen, in tegenstelling tot kinderporno met foto's van...
Spot the Language 4
2008-03-11 09:08:00
Rekisteröityminen on maksutonta, mikäli sinulla on ns. luotettava sähköpostiosoite. Tällaiseksi luemme pääsääntöisesti esim. koulujen ja työpaikkojen osoitteet. Mikäli käytät esim. jotakin ilmaissähköpostia, voit vahvistaa tunnuksesi tekstiviestillä. Käyttämällä tekstiviestivahvistusta pääset käyttämään palvelua välittömästi rekisteröitymisen jälkeen. Saat tarkemmat vahvistusohjeet myöhemmin.Kaikki rekisteröitymisen yhteydessä kysyttävät tiedot ovat pakollisia. Voit myöhemmin lisätä profiiliisi muita, vapaaehtoisia tietoja.Ok, here we go again with spot the language. This one should be easy because it looks like another language that we all should be familiar with lately. Or does it? Is it time to adjust your glasses script? Does it really look familiar? Or is that just an optical illusion.Another European language. We are stuck in Europe for now, sorry.What's all this about case? Did someone say Latin had lots of case endings? Oh, man, Latin speakers were just pikers, come on. The...
Spot the Language 3
2008-03-11 08:55:00
Updated March 12:Nie. Chodzi o obci??enie bazy. Opisana architektura jest bardzo dobrze skalowalna je?li chodzi o odczyty z bazy danych, jednak w ?aden sposób nie wp?ywa na zapisy do bazy. Edycja postu to w?a?nie zapis. Czasem baza jest zbyt mocno obci??ona i wtedy naj?atwiejsz? rzecz? jak? mo?na zrobi? ?eby zmniejszy? zapisy, to w?a?nie wy??czenie edycji i usuwania postów.I am not sure how many languages look like this one. Looks like lots of special characters in the character set. Of course, another European language. I'd be amazed if anyone missed this one, but I've seen stranger things.Lots of hits coming in for a particular video from this country lately. Looks like they have a pretty good IT infrastructure up, strange as it seems. One wonders about their economy and whether things are actually better 17 years down the road. Oh, well, enough clues, as if you needed any, right?One of my readers said these are too easy. He's right. That's the general idea here - I taunt my r...
Spot The Language 2
2008-03-10 04:42:00
Seda mulle meeldib peale reede veel teha ka laupäeval, pühapäeval, esmaspäeval, teisipäeval, kolmapäeval, neljaoäeval ja ka kőigil ülejäänud nädalapäevadel. Aga ma tahaks sind kiruda ka, et sa kohe OT pääle kaldusid: minu küsimus oli siiski aus ja otsekohane, puudutades, kergel ehk erutavalt kőditatdes vaid hardstyle ennast!Your initial reaction, if you are smart, is that this is one particular language. However, I will give you a hint. It is not the language that you think it is, that is, if you are smart and guessed right.Another European language, of course. But who knows if it is Indo-European or not, like the last one? Are they part of a smaller language family? Your guess.Answers in the comments, as before.One again, from a link to my site. This particular country has been flooding in for a long time for one particular video.No prizes but short-term fame. See ya in the comments. Nya nya.
Spot The Language
2008-03-09 12:49:00
Thought I would play a little game with my readers here called spot the language. Every now and again I get links to the blog from sites written in strange languages that I cannot at first identify, but can only identify by running snippets of them through Google and analyzing the results. Here is one, and I do not have the foggiest idea what it says: Snimci koji se ovde postuju mogu da vam zagorcaju ceo zivot. Ocekujte jos kasnije. Ne salim se. Answers in the comments. I'll give you a hint: it's a European language.
The peoples? archive of World War I
2008-03-04 14:40:00
Oxford University researchers are inviting the public to submit digital photographs or transcripts of personal First World War memorabilia, which may be hidden away in the cupboards and attics of their homes. The search for artefacts, letters, diaries, poems and stories started yesterday and continues for three months. Those who have items that may have been ...
Edict Net Dictionary
2008-03-03 18:53:00
The Net Dictionary, adapted by Edict Virtual Language Centre from the Princeton University WordNet lexical database, is a powerful reference tool for any users of the English language. With 24,500 Chinese translations, the dictionary should satisfy most students who find Chinese to be their first language. Features: ? Entries for more than 100,000 unique English words ? Text-to-Speech support and Web Concordancer integration, enabling users to learn pronunciation and example uses simultaneously ? Lists of verbs, adjectives, adverbs, phrasal verbs, irregular verbs, academic words, and most frequently used words ? Lists of business - banking, linguistics, pragmatics, and earth science terms ? Easy access to all entries, either via an A-Z index or by using an advanced search engine Site URL: http://www.edict.com.hk/lexicon-index/
Hamlet on Second Life
2008-02-28 12:38:00
In Second Life, the SLShakespeare company will be performing Act1 Scene1 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the SLGlobe on Sliterary from this Thursday. If you have the Second Life software installed, and an avatar, (all freely available) you can visit the Globe Theatre on Second Life by clicking on the ‘SURL’ http://slurl.com/secondlife/sLi-terary/27/32/21/ From Joff Fassnacht - ...
Varieties of English
2008-02-27 18:22:00
Varieties of English, by the Language Samples Project of the University of Arizona, provides phonetics/phonology lessons and explains the differences between 7 varieties of English spoken in North America. Features: ? Detailed descriptions of African-American English, American Indian English, British English, Canadian English, Chicano English (under development), dialects of the Northeast US, and Southern States English ? Lessons and exercises on phonetics, phonology, and the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) ? Glossary of phonetics/phonology terms Site URL: http://www.ic.arizona.edu/%7Els-p/
The HyperTextBooks by Daniel Kies
2008-02-18 16:37:00
The HyperTextBooks, textbooks in hypertext, are written by Daniel Kies for the online courses he teaches at the College of DuPage but have been put up for public use by the author. Any student interested in learning English composition and grammar can access the resources for free. Features: ? Hyperlinked textbooks used in English 1101/1102 (Composition), English 1115 (Writing for the Web) and English 2126 (Modern English Grammar) courses ? Comprehensive coverage of fundamental points of English composition and grammar, from the writing process to writing essays and research papers, and from word classes to linguistic stylistics ? User-friendly interface, with various tools to help students make the most of the materials Site URL: http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks-/
Fantasy and the fantastic imagination in the visual arts
2008-02-14 12:36:00
Just added to the range of Limelight guidance articles at Intute: arts & humanities ? a new article titled “Internet and other resources for the study of fantasy and the fantastic imagination in the visual arts”. There is also a short ’starter’ bibliography.
The Peopling of the Philippines
2008-02-12 11:22:00
The peopling of the Philippines is a bit better understood than the peopling of Indonesia described in my previous post. At least we know that most of the Philippines was first settled long ago by Negritos.An Aeta Negrito woman of the Philippines. White Nationalists and Afrocentrists both insist that these folks are Black people, but they are very distant from African Blacks. White people are much closer to Blacks than these Negritos. Genetically, these people resemble the Filipinos they live with.Their skulls resemble other Australoid types such as Papuans and Aborigines. Genetically, they are classed as Asians. They are part of the Southeast Asian Major Race. Their minor race is known as the Philippines Negrito Race. It includes the Ati, Aeta and, strangely, the Palau of Micronesia.Unlike many other places where the Negritos seem to have died out or transcended to other forms, in the Philippines they still exist in a relatively pristine form, even if they are going extinct, cul...
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies - ebulletin
2008-02-10 13:42:00
The February 2008 monthly ebulletin of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) is now available. It provides information on events run by LLAS and other organisations, projects, news items, and newly available resources relating to the teaching of these subjects at university level. Forthcoming events featured in this month’s bulletin include: ...
The Speech Accent Archive
2008-02-01 16:36:00
The Speech Accent Archive, maintained by Steven H. Weinberger of George Mason University, contains speech samples of speakers of English from various language backgrounds. It is useful not only for linguists but also for teachers and students who want to study the accents of different English speakers. Features: ? Same elicitation paragraph for all speakers, which contains most of the consonants, vowels and clusters of standard American English ? Phonetic transcriptions of all samples provided, along with speakers' phonological generalizations and biographical data ? Archive browsable by native language, geographical region and native phonetic inventory Site URL: http://accent.gmu.edu/index.php-
Linguistics 101 - Authority and Hints
2008-01-21 20:12:00
Homosexual relationships can be very rewarding for both parties involved, or a nightmare. Power struggles, the excess baggage of one or both parties, and society can push a gay or lesbian couple to the breaking point. But a more common cause of relationship downfall is linguistics. Different conversation styles can turn a happy moment between ...
Conference: Texts in Translation
2008-01-16 12:28:00
Registration is still open for the following one-day conference, organised by the UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and the English Subject Centre: *Texts in Translation* Date: 31st January 2008 Venue: University of Sheffield, UK Of interest to colleagues from Modern Languages and English Studies in particular, this event will focus on ...
Resources and Tools from Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, Universit
2008-01-04 10:26:00
The Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London offers on its website many useful resources and tools for learning English, all of which are freely accessible. Features: ? KS3 grammar for ages 12-14 with explanations of terms and teaching suggestions ? Materials related to Estuary English, which is the English spoken in and around London, and Word Grammar, a theory of language structure initiated by Richard Hudson ? Tutorials on, among other subjects, phonetics and hearing ? Guides to using the International Phonetics Association (IPA) alphabet of phonetic symbols ? Software for studying and manipulating audio ? Speech Internet Dictionary, which provides definitions of terms used in phonetics, phonology and related sciences ? Categorized and searchable database of English pronunciation tips of the day ? Index of online study skills resources Site URL: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resou-rce/index.html
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