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A Calendar Page for November 2013 - Medieval manuscripts blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitis...

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"Hunting takes centre stage in these calendar pages for the month of November. In the full-page miniature, a nobleman can be seen returning from a stag-hunt; his quarry, a magnificently-antlered animal, is in the foreground, draped across a white horse. This nobleman is accompanied by two retainers and a group of tired-looking hounds, while in the background, peasants can be seen feeding their chickens and pigs, and preparing their farm buildings for winter. In the bas-de-page, a group of men are bowling - and, it appears, heatedly disputing a recent shot. On the following page are the saints' days and feasts for November, alongside a roundel containing a centaur archer for the zodiac sign Sagittarius; below, two men are coursing hounds on yet another hunt." - maitani - -

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10 Figures of Speech Illustrated by Monty Python: Paradiastole, Epanorthosis, Syncatabasis & More | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2013...

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"Ah, the ancient art of rhetoric. There’s no escaping it. Variously defined as “the art of argumentation and discourse” or, by Aristotle in his fragmented treatise, as “the means of persuasion [that] could be found in the matter itself; and then stylistic arrangement,” rhetoric is complicated. Aristotle’s definition further breaks down into three distinct types, and he illustrates each with literary examples. And if you’ve ever picked up a rhetorical guide—ancient, medieval, or modern—you’ll be familiar with the lists of hundreds of unpronounceable Greek or Latin terms, each one corresponding to some quirky figure of speech." - maitani - -

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Etymological gleanings for October 2013 | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2013...

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"Italian aregna and Engl. ring (in boxing, etc.). Is this meaning of the English word of Italian origin? I don’t think so. In Italian, gn signifies palatalized n, so that the real comparison is between Latin arena (from harena) and Engl. ring (from hrengaz). But the question was about Dante’s phrase entrare nell’ aringo rimaso, which (I am quoting the letter of our correspondent) “can be translated as ‘re-enter the ring.’ I am guessing that aringo rimaso is from Latin harena remensa, i.e. newly laid out sand. That suggests to me that the ring in boxing ring, circus ring, etc. has its origins in Italian and not the Germanic hringr.” This derivation seems unlikely for two reasons. First, the earliest citation in the OED of ring with reference to boxing does not antedate the beginning of the nineteenth century. Second, despite Dante’s spelling aringo, this word could never be pronounced with the g-sound, while the Germanic word always had g in ring. Also, it is hard to imagine why such a word should have been borrowed by English boxers from Italian. The coincidence is curious, but this is as far as it goes." - maitani - -

"Dragon. Why dragon, if the Latin form is draco? Old English borrowed the Latin word with the predictable consonant in the middle, and drake (not related to drake “the male of the duck”) had a long history in English. Dutch draak and German Drache are easily recognizable cognates. In several Romance languages, k in this word became g, and Middle English took over this later form from Old French. Dragon supplanted drake, so that a rift appeared between it and the Latin (and Greek) etymon, but, by way of compensation, it aligned itself with its Romance siblings. Those interested in further ramifications are welcome to trace the history of Engl. dragoon. (I have also been asked about the origin of centaur. The word is from Latin, but its distant origin remains a matter of dispute.)" - maitani - -

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Acropolis Museum on Google Maps | res gerendae - http://resgerendae.wordpress.com/2013...

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"I’m not sure when this went up on the internet, but no one has pointed it out to me before, and so therefore I offer you the following post. I just discovered that the Acropolis Museum in Athens is featured in the Google Cultural Institute (a division of Google of which I was hitherto unaware), and it has a page where there is featured selection of various artefacts in its holding, so details of the gods on the East Parthenon Frieze, the Antenor Kore, the Moschophoros, various decrees, and so forth. That is all fun and good, but if you click on the little yellow man by the words Acropolis Museum you can actually view the inside the museum in Google Maps with 360º rotating views, including a full walkabout of the Parthenon frieze and the gallery of sculpture on the first floor." - maitani - -

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International Dunhuang Project: IDP’s 20th Anniversary: Programme of Events - http://idpuk.blogspot.de/2013...

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"To celebrate IDP’s 20th anniversary we will be organising a series of events and activities over the next year. Details will be added and updated below and on our programme page. From November 1 the IDP blog will also feature ‘A Few of Our Favourite Things’, a weekly post showcasing IDP collection items selected by twenty of IDP’s partners, supporters and users. Please contact idpevents@bl.uk for more information." - maitani - -

"In recent years a team of experts have conducted research into the Silk Road’s sites and routes as part of the Silk Roads World Heritage Serial and Transnational Nomination in Central Asia project. Tim Williams, archaeologist at University College London (UCL) and leader of the UCL Ancient Merv Project, has been working on this project for several years. In this lecture he will discuss the considerable challenges of mapping the the Silk Roads and their sites." - maitani - -

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Write Like the Ancients | Memiyawanzi - http://memiyawanzi.wordpress.com/2013...

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"This multimedia side of things also just went live on YouTube yesterday evening, so if you can’t get to Cambridge but still want to see short videos about different aspects of writing in the world aimed at a general audience, now there are some outreach materials for everyone to use beyond the event. I just saw them for the first time and some of them are quite good." - maitani - -

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Language change and the arbitrariness of the sign | Sentence first - http://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013...

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"Saussure also drew a useful distinction between two approaches to linguistic study, which he called diachronic and synchronic – essentially historical and ahistorical. How he knitted these concepts together may be seen in this passage by Jonathan Culler in his book Saussure (Fontana Modern Masters, 1976):" - maitani - -

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"Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) devised a model of linguistic meaning involving what he called the signifier (a symbolic or phonological form) and what it signifies. Their association is a basic unit of communication he referred to as a linguistic sign, and it is fundamentally arbitrary. For example, rose signifies a flower with a pleasant smell, but by any other name it would, per Romeo, smell as sweet. Generally speaking, the meaning of a word cannot be predicted from its form, nor its form from its meaning." - maitani - -

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The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel - James Fallows - The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...

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"Some questions you ask because you want the right answer. Others are valuable because no answer is right; the payoff comes from the range of attempts. Seven years ago, The Atlantic surveyed a group of eminent historians to create a ranked list of the 100 people who had done the most to shape the character of modern America. The panelists agreed easily on the top few names—Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, in that order—but then began diverging in intriguing ways that reflected not simply their own values but also the varied avenues toward influence in our country. Lewis and Clark, or Henry Ford? Thomas Edison, or Martin Luther King? The result was of course not scientific. But the exercise of asking, comparing, and choosing helped us understand more about what these historical figures had done and about the areas in which American society had proved most and least open to the changes wrought by talented, determined men and women." - maitani - -

"Why did it take so long to invent the wheelbarrow? Have we hit peak innovation? What our list reveals about imagination, optimism, and the nature of progress." - maitani - -

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Zalipie: Poland’s Painted Village ~ Kuriositas - http://www.kuriositas.com/2013...

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"The secluded village of Zalipie in southeastern Poland is home to a charming tradition. Over a century ago the women of the village began to paint their houses: however, it was not the single, uniform color one might expect from a traditional and conservative society. The village, through the intricate and vibrant paintwork of its womenfolk, bloomed." - maitani - -

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"The Union of Ancient Mediterranean Ports was created in 1995 from a network of cities with the common characteristic of having been founded during Greek antiquity. The union was enacted in 1996 with its headquarters in the ancient town of Agatha, current Aged of Southern France. In 2002 the Union’s headquarters were moved to Larnaca, Cyprus. With the passing of time, what remained of the Union is a report in the webpage of KTE (www.eduscience.gr-Activities).The aim of the Union is the strengthening of the relations amongst the cities involved, in the fields of culture, education, economy, technology and the communication of citizens; more specifically that of young people. In 2008 there began a project, A Script on Mediterranean, with the participation of 13-year-old Evdokia Valli from Mitilini, who took the first European reward in the “world competition of children’s painting for the environment”; the competition was organized based on the “Program of Environment” of the United Nations – UNEP (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://archive.enet.gr/on... ; title="http://archive.enet.gr/on... ;). During that same time, on 10-13 December, a congress organized by the Network of Cities of Sea and entitled “New Scripts on Mediterranean – For an open sea in the strategy for the growth” took place in Gela, Sicily" - maitani - -

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The Online Emily Dickinson Archive Makes Thousands of the Poet’s Manuscripts Freely Available | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2013...

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"Perhaps the most famous of all literary recluses, despite herself, Emily Dickinson left a posthumously discovered cache of poetry that did not receive a proper scholarly treatment until the publication of The Poems of Emily Dickinson by Thomas H. Johnson in 1955, which made available Dickinson’s complete body of 1,775 poems in their intended state of punctuation and capitalization. For the first time, readers outside the small Dickinson family circle could read the work she circulated privately in so-called “fascicles” as well as the hundreds of poems no one had seen during her lifetime. There is some question over whether Dickinson wished to publish for a wider audience. She shared her work only with family and friends, some of whom published ten of her poems in newspapers between 1850 and 1866, most likely without her knowledge or consent. Many urged Dickinson to publish. Author Helen Hunt Jackson wrote to her: “You are a great poet—and it is a wrong to the day you live in, that you will not sing aloud.” Nevertheless, Dickinson “hesitated,” an important word in her lexicon, expressive of her profound agnostic doubts about the value of fame, success, and immortality." - maitani - -

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The Roma have multitudes - Gene Expression | DiscoverMagazine.com - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp...

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"Before we move on I have to clarify that there is a distinction between “Roma” and “Romani.” The latter refers broadly to the populations across Europe which were referred to as “Gypsy,” while the former denotes a set of populations with a center of distribution in Southeast Europe, in particular in the Balkans. In much of Northern and Western Europe there are now two populations of Romani with very distinct histories (and genetics): the Roma who have recently arrived from Southeast Europe, and the various non-Roma groups who have a very long history in their nations of residence (e.g., Finnish Kale)." - maitani - -

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"There was a recent case in Ireland of a young Roma girl who was blonde haired and blue eyed being removed from her home, on the suspicion that she was not in fact the biological child of the presumed parents (who, like most Roma, are reportedly of dark complexion, hair, and eye). I even saw a report that a hospital was consulted on the probability of such an outcome, and they said it would be “extremely unusual”. It turns out that DNA tests confirmed that this girl was the biological child of the putative parents. And of course all this has be understood in light of the case of “Maria” in Greece; a little blonde girl who turned out not to be the biological child of the two Roma who claimed her as their daughter (it looks like there was welfare fraud in that case)." - maitani - -

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Philosophy Monkey: Tim Minchin's Nine Life Lessons - http://berto-meister.blogspot.de/2013...

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"Although C.P. Snow famously decried the divergence of the two cultures (the sciences and the humanities), we have seen over the years many public intellectuals trying to bridge that gap by writing eloquently and engagingly about the importance, method and discoveries of science. Usually, these thinkers are scientists (such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker) who have mastered the ability to engagingly communicate the importance, underlying structure, method and discoveries of science, as well as their love for it. It's not as common, however, to have someone from the arts and humanities do the same, and to be as engaging, thought-provoking and funny as Tim Minchin, who was recently awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Western Australia, and who decided to share a few life tips worth listening to:" - maitani - -

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On Reading Proust by Stephen Breyer | The New York Review of Books - http://www.nybooks.com/article...

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"K: By starting with Proust, you certainly didn’t begin with the easiest author! SB: Perhaps not, but in that period of my life, I had plenty of time and I could afford to devote myself to that challenging text. I had no final exams to study for, no particular pressure at all. And for that matter, once I reached the end of the Recherche, I immediately reread it. Which is something that happens, I believe, to many readers. In Time Regained, it becomes clear that everything you’ve read up to this point constitutes the inner journey of a man who aspires to become a writer and finally finds his subject, his material: himself and the whole of his life, during which he was convinced that he had lost, or wasted, his time. At that point, you feel the urge to reread the book in order to better understand this inner journey." - maitani - -

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"Joanna Kohler: In the preface to his translation of John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, Proust talks about the importance of the memories associated with reading, the circumstances and setting in which we read a particular book. When and in what setting did you read À la recherche du temps perdu? Stephen Breyer: I read the Recherche when I was working as a legal intern at an American law firm in Paris. I was trying to learn French, so I read all seven volumes in French. Every night I drew up vocabulary index cards with lists of the new words that I’d learned from Proust. But luckily I found that the lists became shorter and shorter as I made my way deeper into the book! In any case, it was with Proust’s work that I first began to read authors in the original French. And that was something I continued with other French authors." - maitani - -

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BBC News - Silk Road jewel reveals more of its treasures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...

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"Across the far northern Afghan plain, a hot wind blows the dun-coloured dust into blinding clouds, and the women's burkas into blue billows. It is 40C in the shade, and even the small black goats being herded through the sand dunes look sapped by the heat. These are the lowlands of Balkh, where ancient trade routes attracted nomads, warriors, settlers, adventurers and evangelists, who left behind secrets that archaeologists are just beginning to unlock. This area places Afghanistan at the heart of political, economic, social and religious power across Asia, as far back as 4,000 years ago." - maitani - -

"Balkh province in northern Afghanistan is home to some of the most significant historical sites in the world - its ancient city was even known as the mother of all cities. More than a decade after her first visit, Lynne O'Donnell returns with a group of archaeologists, trying to uncover more of its treasures." - maitani - -

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Paul Halsall/Fordham University: Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Travelers' Accounts - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall...

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"Traveler's accounts of their journeys and the lands they visit are important sources in understanding the past. As outsiders, travelers often note aspects of a culture that are too commonplace for local commentators to mention. More than this, travelers often provide some insight into how their own society understood itself in relation to other cultures. Throughout the Internet History Sourcebooks Project, there are a large number of travelers' accounts. The goal of this page is simply to bring them together. Since I expect users to be interested in the more general phenomenon of outsider descriptions, some other accounts that are not strictly traveler's accounts have have been included." - maitani - -

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Does Time Pass? The Philosophy of TIme | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2013...

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"In the early 5th century BCE a group of philosophers from the Greek colony of Elea formed a school of thought devoted to the notion that sense perception — as opposed to reason — is a poor guide to reality. The leader of this school was known as Parmenides. He left behind scraps of a long prose poem about the true nature of time and change. This work, On Nature, is one of the earliest surviving examples of philosophical argumentation." - maitani - -

"Our perception of the world is of a world of change, of motion and transience. Parmenides was convinced that the reality is quite different. He argued as follows. The ordinary notion of change indicates some thing or state of a thing going from being future to being present to being past. Yet we also ordinarily contrast the what is — i.e., the present state of things — with the what is not — i.e., the merely possible or long gone. The future doesn’t actually exist; if it did, then it would exist now! But then nothing can go from actually being future to being present: if the future is not real, then the present state of things cannot come to be from a future state of things. Hence, change is impossible and illusory. Parmenides concluded that the world is really a timeless, static unity. The terms ‘past,’ ‘present,’ ‘future’ do not designate intrinsic properties of things or events." - maitani - -

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BabelStone: What's new in Unicode 7.0 ? - http://babelstone.blogspot.de/2013...

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"A new (4th) edition of ISO/IEC 10646 will be published next year, and Amendment 1 to this new edition is already in progress. ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (draft code charts) will include Hatran, Old Hungarian (assuming that the Hungarian national body's ballot response is positive), Sharada, Multani, Ahom, Early Dynastic Cuneiform, Anatolian Hieroglyphs, and Sutton Signwriting, as well as 5,762 Han ideographs in a new CJK-E block. Amendment 1 (draft code charts) currently adds Nüshu (Nushu) and Tamil supplement, but more scripts may be added to it as it progresses. The character repertoire, code point allocations, and character names are not yet fixed, and the draft code charts linked to above should be treated with caution. For the first time, in what I think is a very good move, the Unicode Consortium has publicized the ISO ballots in advance of announcing a beta version of Unicode (at which point it is too late to make changes to character allocation and character names), and requested feedback from the public on the proposed repertoires. See PRI <a href="#256</a>" target="_blank">http://friendfeed.com/sea... ; for ISO/IEC 10646:2014 and PRI <a href="#255</a>" target="_blank">http://friendfeed.com/sea... ; for ISO/IEC 10646:2014 Amd.1. New scripts and characters added to ISO/IEC 10646:2014 and its amendments will feed into Unicode 7.1 and 7.2 (these are probable version numbers, but are currently unconfirmed) during the next two or three years. For those of you who have been following the yo-yoing progress of the middle dot letter used for Sinological transcription and 'Phags-pa transliteration (originally proposed for encoding by myself in January 2009, and subsequently put on and then taken off virtually every ballot since then), an agreement was finally reached at the last WG2 meeting in Vilnius during the summer of this year to encode the character at U+A78F under the compromise name of LATIN LETTER SINOLOGICAL DOT, and I hope to see it encoded in the version of Unicode corresponding to ISO/IEC 10646:2014 Amd.1 (it's not currently on Amd.1, but maybe it will get added there). Tangut is a major historic script that I know that many people want to see encoded in Unicode, and as the main author of a series of proposals to encode Tangut characters and Tangut components I am top this list. However, although the first proposal to encode Tangut characters (by Richard Cook) was made in 2008, it has proved very hard to reach an agreement on character repertoire, and Tangut encoding has floundered. A conference on encoding Tangut, supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, will be held in Beijing in December of this year (I will be there), and if all goes well it is possible that Tangut could be put on the ballot for ISO/IEC 10646:2014 Amd. 2, and find its way on into Unicode 7.2 or 8.0." - maitani - -

"The two previous releases of Unicode (6.2 and 6.3) have been rather disappointing with regards to the number of new characters introduced into the standard (one in 6.2 and five in 6.3), so Unicode 7.0 should be much more exciting to those of us who think that 110,000 characters in Unicode are not nearly enough. In summary, 2,833 new characters are going to be added to Unicode 7.0 when it is released in the summer or autumn of 2014 (list of character names). Of these, 1,849 characters belong to 23 newly added scripts, which is a greater number of new scripts than for any previous version since Unicode 1.0 (which started life with 24 scripts)." - maitani - -

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“What in Thy Name?”—The History and Geography of Girls’ and Boys’ Names - by Asya Pereltsvaig <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.geocurrents.in... ; title="http://www.geocurrents.in... ; on GeoCurrents - maitani - -

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"From Reuben Fischer-Baum, "Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls, State-by-State", Jezebel 10/19/2013:" - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Open Access Travel Literature - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2009...

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"The history of travel, travelers, and travel writing is an academic discipline in it's own right. Travelers accounts of journeys from before Pausanius to the present form an important corpus of descriptive documentation of ancient monuments and sites, many of them no longer visible. ASTENE: The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East organizes conferences and publishes a Bulletin devoted to the topic. The venerable Hakluyt Society has been the focus of publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material since 1846. Shirley Weber's compendious bibliography Voyages and travels in Greece, the Near East, and adjacent regions, made previous to the year 1801; being a part of a larger catalogue of works on geography, cartography, voyages and travels, in the Gennadius Library in Athens has been available online for some time." - maitani - -

"American Travelers in Italy is a collected and curated at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brighsam Young University. Early Explorers in Egypt &amp; Nubia. Daniele Salvoldi's blog collects a wide variety of useful documentation, in particular those tagged as On-Line resources. The Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs (NYPL Digital Gallery). Several thousand prints and photographs contained in works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. TIMEA: Travellers in the Middle East Archive. Based at Rice University, this library includes images, texts, maps, and research and reaching guides. The seventy eight digitized books in the collection focus on Egypt, but cover a range of the eastern Mediterranean. Traveling with Pausanias: Using Google Earth to Engage Students with Ancient Maps, by John Gruber-Miller Travel Literature on Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean 15th-19th centuries. This is a component of PANDEKTIS - A Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture, produced by the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. It includes descriptive metadata on more than three thousand items, many of which include digitized facsimiles...." - maitani - -

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Eurozine - The death of a language - Giedrius Subacius - http://www.eurozine.com/article...

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"It is often said that every two weeks a language dies. But the statement belies a complex reality, in which languages are transformed, replaced or simply vanish along with their users. Giedrius Subacius on the fate of the Lithuanian language, among others." - maitani - -

"Public discourse in Lithuania is full of trepidation over the fate of the Lithuanian language. A few motifs are particularly prescient: illiteracy (Dainius Numgaudis: "The fact that we are and will remain a Lithuanian-speaking country is undeniable. However, whether we will remain a Lithuanian-writing nation is a question which is currently provoking louder and louder discussions in Lithuania"[1]); lack of respect and love for the language and the imminent collapse of the language system (Irena Andrukaitiene: "Larger nations make us accept their linguistic systems, make us feel ashamed of being Lithuanians, of being Lithuania"[2]); borrowings (Romualdas Kriauciunas: "Some of the words that I have stumbled on include reglamentuojantis (imposing regulation), licencija (licence), kompetencijos (competencies), prioritetas (priority), autonomiskumas (autonomy), indikacija (indication), alternatyvus (alternative), konfidencialumas (confidentiality), profilaktika (prophylaxis)"[3]); the rules for writing foreign names, particularly in Lithuanian passports (George W. Bush or Dzordzas V. Busas)." - maitani - -

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"In addition to tools to support learning Ancient Greek, we provide resources to encourage the study of various forms of Linguistics and their application to Ancient Greek. Our objective is to foster the application of research methods from the field of Linguistics to the study of Hellenic and Hellenistic Greek. Whether you are a Biblical Scholar, a Classicist, or a student of Linguistics, you will find something here of interest to you." - maitani - -

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"RESTful web services will be developed for the project to make the vocabulary resources programmatically accessible and searchable. These will include the provision to ‘feed back’ new terms (concepts) suggested by users. A series of case studies will explore use of these web services, in collaboration with the project partners." - maitani - -

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"“He was, very consciously,” claims Jonathan Franzen, in this latest high-profile relaunch of Kraus, “speaking to us.” There are “certain parallels,” Zohn wrote, in 1976 (in Canada, but it was repeated in 1986, in England), between Kraus’s age and ours. We need, he says, “his vibrant pacifism, his kind of defense of the spirit against dehumanizing tendencies, and his…steadfastness of moral purpose.”*" - maitani - -

"It was suggested in 1976, and again in 1986, by Karl Kraus’s early torch-bearer in English, Harry Zohn, and by others at other times, before and since, and probably in between as well, that there is a particular timeliness about the work of this Viennese Jewish writer, who was born in Bohemia in 1874 and died in Vienna in 1936. Even though most of Kraus’s writing was ad hominem and highly occasional. (This timeliness card, it seems, is one that one can always play, or at least hardly ever not. A sort of low trump, if you like.)" - maitani - -

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