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Keep Your Multilingualism to Yourself - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/blogs...

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"I talked to an English-speaking American, fluent in German, who is raising his children as English/German bilinguals. He is currently resident in Germany, attached to a university in Hamburg. The main point of this visiting position is to allow him to immerse himself and his family in a German-speaking community, so naturally he wants to speak German with his German university colleagues. But to his astonishment he finds they don’t want that. They want him to use English with them. Their attitude toward his germanophone tendencies is distinctly disapproving." - maitani - -

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"I hadn’t quite appreciated, though, that English is beginning to be so dominant and so much desired that its speakers are being condemned or bullied for having the temerity to even attempt the use of other languages." - maitani - -

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Free Technology for Teachers: A Glossary of Poetry Terms for Students - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013...

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"The Poetry Foundation offers some helpful resources for teachers and students. One of the resources that immediately jumped out at me when I visited the Poetry Foundation's Learning Lab was the glossary of poetry terms. Students can search the glossary alphabetically, by form & type of poem, by rhyme & meter, by schools & projects, by technique, and by theory or criticism." - maitani - -

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All the colors, once each - http://kottke.org/13...

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"In the parlance of NYC graffiti enthusiasts, going "all city" means getting your stuff known all over the five boroughs. Now a group of designers are challenging each other to go "all RGB", to make images that contain all of the 16.7 million colors that make up the RGB spectrum once each. This entry is amazing because it still looks like an actual photograph when you zoom out (many others do not):" - maitani - -

These Photos Contain Exactly One Pixel of Each of the 16 Million RGB Colors <a rel="nofollow" href="http://petapixel.com/2013... ; title="http://petapixel.com/2013... ; - maitani - -

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Breton Language to be Taught at Harvard | GeoCurrents - http://geocurrents.info/cultura...

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"Breton is a Celtic language, most closely related to Cornish, as both are thought to have evolved from a Southwestern Brythonic protolanguage. Like Cornish and Welsh, as well as the now-extinct Gaulish, Breton belongs to the Brythonic (or “P-Celtic”) branch of the Celtic grouping, itself a part of the larger Indo-European family. The term “P-Celtic”, coined by Edward Lluyd (1660 -1709), director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, reflects the historic change in these languages that turned the reconstructed Proto-Celtic *kw (i.e. labialized velars) into p (i.e. bilabial stops). In the other Celtic branch, Q‑Celtic, as well as in other Indo-European languages, labialized velars were either retained as such or turned into plain velars, such as /k/. This change is evident in comparing the Proto-Celtic *kwetwar- ‘four’ with its Breton reflex pevar, as well as the Gaulish petor, Welsh pedwar, and Cornish peswar. In contrast, in Irish this root has changed into ceathair and in Scottish Gaelic into ceithir; similarly, in Latin the cognate form is quattuor and its Italian and Spanish descendants are quattro and cuatro, respectively. Similarly, the Proto-Celtic *kwenkwe- ‘five’ became pemp in Breton, pempe in Gaulish, pump in Welsh, and pymp in Cornish; in contrast, the Irish and Scottish Gaelic forms are cúig and còig. The Latin cognate is quinque, and its Italian and Spanish reflexes are cinque and cinco." - maitani - -

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Isn't Manx a Breton language too? No, Gaelic, just checked. - maitani - -

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LibraryThing Statistics | Memiyawanzi - http://memiyawanzi.wordpress.com/2013...

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Encyclopædia Iranica | Home - http://www.iranicaonline.org/

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"The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent." - maitani - -

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Jordi Savall - Üsküdara http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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▶ John Cleese talks about what is creativity and how to stimulate it. ET FOREDRAG OVER NAKKEN - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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▶ Stefan Milenkovich & Edin Karamazov - Bela Bartok - Romanian Dances - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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It Captures Your Mind by Cass R. Sunstein | The New York Review of Books - http://www.nybooks.com/article...

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"Economists focus on the problem of scarcity—on how people allocate their resources (including both time and money) in the face of many competing demands. In their extraordinarily illuminating book, the behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan and the cognitive psychologist Eldar Shafir explore something quite different, which is the feeling of scarcity, and the psychological and behavioral consequences of that feeling. They know that the feeling of scarcity differs across various kinds of experiences and that people can feel “poor” with respect to money, time, or relationships with others." - maitani - -

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What Shakespeare Sounded Like to Shakespeare: Reconstructing the Bard’s Original Pronunciation | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2013...

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"Shakespeare’s English is called by scholars Early Modern English (not, as many students say, “Old English,” an entirely different, and much older language). Crystal dates his Shakespearean early modern to around 1600. (In his excellent textbook on the subject, linguist Charles Barber bookends the period roughly between 1500 and 1700.) David Crystal cites three important kinds of evidence that guide us toward recovering early modern’s original pronunciation (or “OP”)." - maitani - -

"What Shakespeare Sounded Like to Shakespeare: Reconstructing the Bard’s Original Pronunciation in English Language, History, Literature, Theatre | September 11th, 2013 4 Comments What did Shakespeare’s English sound like to Shakespeare? To his audience? And how can we know such a thing as the phonetic character of the language spoken 400 years ago? These questions and more are addressed in the video above, which profiles a very popular experiment at London’s Globe Theatre, the 1994 reconstruction of Shakespeare’s theatrical home. As linguist David Crystal explains, the theater’s purpose has always been to recapture as much as possible the original look and feel of a Shakespearean production—costuming, music, movement, etc. But until recently, the Globe felt that attempting a play in the original pronunciation would alienate audiences. The opposite proved to be true, and people clamored for more. Above, Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, demonstrate to us what certain Shakespearean passages would have sounded like to their first audiences, and in so doing draw out some subtle wordplay that gets lost on modern tongues." - maitani - -

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Eurozine - Vier Jahre Merkel, vier Jahre Eurokrise - Andreas Fisahn - http://www.eurozine.com/article...

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"Aus europäischer Sicht bedeuten vier Jahre Regierung Merkel vor allem eines: vier Jahre Krise. Ironischerweise fielen der Beginn der Legislaturperiode und der Beginn der Eurokrise fast zusammen. Das Fazit nach vier Jahren von Angela Merkel dominierter Krisenpolitik: Der neoliberale Weg der Bundesregierung zu einem europäischen Wettbewerbseuropa samt autoritärer Brüsseler Wirtschaftsregierung scheint sich durchzusetzen – zum Schaden Europas." - maitani - -

"Scheitert Merkels autoritärer Neoliberalismus, ist die zweite Perspektive mindestens ebenso düster. Die Folge wäre grassierender Nationalchauvinismus in der EU. Erste Anzeichen und Beispiele dafür gibt es bereits, insbesondere die Wahlerfolge national-chauvinistischer Parteien in vielen europäischen Ländern, an der Spitze die Regierungsübernahme von Orban in Ungarn, aber auch, im Kern der Euroländer, die Wiederaufnahme der Grenzkontrollen im Schengenraum und die deutsche Aufkündigung des Europäischen Fürsorgeabkommens von 1953, das die Mitgliedstaaten dazu verpflichtet, Angehörigen anderer Mitgliedstaaten dieselben Fürsorgeleistungen wie den eigenen Staatsangehörigen zu gewähren." - maitani - -

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bradshaw of the future: welcome - http://bradshawofthefuture.blogspot.de/2013...

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"The Toronto Catholic District School Board, on its English courses page, has an animated GIF showing the word "welcome" in 29 languages." - maitani - -

"Here are some etymological notes on these words. It's interesting that so many terms for "welcome" can be literally translated as an adverb "well/good" + a verb "come"." - maitani - -

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NeuroLogica Blog » Arctic Ice Increasing - http://theness.com/neurolo...

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"The worst lies are those that contain a kernel of truth. This might include all instances of lying with statistics, because they may contain true numbers, simply distorted to tell a deceptive story." - maitani - -

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"Such lying with numbers is rampant within the global warming debate, mostly on the side of the deniers. Their basic strategy is to cherry pick the duration of time over which they choose to view the data – they are mining large data sets to cherry pick streaks that tell the story they want. This can involve looking at trends over one to a few years, instead of decades, or looking at thousands of years to obscure what is happening over decades." - maitani - -

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DCblog: On a burning poetic question - http://david-crystal.blogspot.de/2013...

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"A correspondent writes to ask for an opinion about the pronunciation of the last word in the opening stanza of William Blake's 'The Tyger': Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" - maitani - -

"It is, he says, a puzzle that has nagged at him for decades. Should it rhyme or not?" - maitani - -

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Just How Weird Are the World’s Weirdest—and Least Weird—Languages? | GeoCurrents - http://geocurrents.info/cultura...

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"In order to do so, Schnoebelen drew data from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), which evaluates 2,676 languages in terms of 192 different linguistic features. “These features include word order, types of sounds, ways of doing negation, and a lot of other things”, Schnoebelen explains. Some languages had to be excluded from consideration because of the paucity of typological information about them. Similarly, most of the WALS features were excluded either because few languages have been analyzed with respect to the given feature or because the feature reproduces the information found in some other feature (for example, from three features that describe the relative placement of subjects, objects, and verbs, Schnoebelen chose feature 83A: Order of Object and Verb). Altogether the full dataset includes 21 typological features and 1,693 languages (although the Weirdness Index was calculated for 239 languages for which a significant number of features is specified in WALS). Each language was evaluated in terms of how unusual it is in regard to each feature. Here’s Schnoebelen’s explanation:" - maitani - -

"In a recent post on idibon.com Tyler Schnoebelen asked which language is the “weirdest of all”. The most intuitive definition of the concept of language weirdness involves comparing languages to the native language of the person who does the comparing, most typically English. Here I must agree with Schnoebelen that “that’s a pretty irritating definition”. Nor is it particularly enlightening: any language that appears ordinary in comparison with English—a fixed-word-order, case-less language with articles and numerous vowels but a fairly modest consonant inventory and relatively bland consonant clusters—is bound to look weird to me as a native speaker of Russian, which has a free word order, a rich system of case marking, no articles, a much smaller vowel inventory and a more complex consonant system. Schnoebelen therefore takes a different approach: instead of comparing languages to one arbitrary standard of comparison (English!), he made a multilateral comparison of numerous languages to each other." - maitani - -

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3quarksdaily: Pepper, considered separately - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...

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"Pepper is used ubiquitously but, unsurprisingly given its intensity, it tends to be used in small quantities. This has lead to it becoming invisible. Recipes that use pepper as a primary note are rare and, correspondingly, are interesting both theoretically and aesthetically. The South Indians have a number of such recipes, probably because South India is part of the ancestral home of pepper. The recipe below is copied from watching my Malayali friend Raghavan cook (the Malabar coast has historically been one of the most important sources of pepper, and pepper has been used there for thousands of years). It is a revelation if you're not used to thinking about pepper as a particular and distinctive spice rather than as a background seasoning." - maitani - -

"There is undeniably something troubling about the way we use pepper. Pepper is among the most classical of spices, with a history of trade and culinary use that dates back several thousand years. And this history is laden with vast sums of money, world-spanning trade routes, once great empires and much culinary and cultural theorizing. Pepper is also among the most distinctive of flavors, rarely retreating into the background, sharp, pungent, spicy and characteristic of the tropics (where the proximity to the sun brings forth exuberant aggressive flavors in everything). And yet pepper has now been thoroughly domesticated and normalized, so that we keep it on the table alongside salt (very obviously a basic background flavor), and use it in most of the food we eat. Given that pepper is not native to much of the world and that it has particularly difficult and distinctive flavors, this ubiquity seems unnatural and puzzling. Harold McGee reports that the Greeks used to keep cumin on the table and used it much as we do pepper. This seems strange, and the theoretical problem raised is similar to that precipitated by our use of pepper." - maitani - -

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▶ Life Of Brian- 1979 Debate (1/4) - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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"The first part is an interview with Cleese and Palin, the actual debate starts 3 minutes into part 2." - maitani - -

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‘We are talking more using fewer words’ - The Hindu - http://www.thehindu.com/opinion...

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"Working with tribals on their languages at Bhasha since 1996 helped me realise that there was no need to unduly privilege scripts — even English does not have a unique script of its own. Hence the thought that most other languages are derivative forms of Scheduled languages disappeared from my mind. I started according smaller languages greater respect." - maitani - -

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"The release of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) report at Gandhi Smriti in Delhi on September 5 will mark a significant milestone for 63-year-old Ganesh Devy’s Bhasha Research and Publication Centre based in Vadodara. It is the first survey of living Indian languages as people perceive them, conducted by the communities themselves. The 780 languages revealed are in stark contrast to the 2001 Census figure of 122 languages, following a 40-year policy of omitting languages with less than 10,000 speakers. Mr. Devy tells Chitra Padmanabhan, a Delhi-based writer, that the PLSI is a rights-based movement, which sees language as crucial for the effective development of fragile communities and for stemming the erosion of India’s diverse, multilingual, and composite heritage." - maitani - -

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

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"The important end-of-the-summer work in the fields continues in these calendar pages for September. In the opening miniature, men are ploughing with teams of horses, while another man sows grain from a bulging sack. Behind them can be seen a modest farmhouse, and to the right, a man knocking acorns from the trees to feed the pigs that have gathered around him, in a labour more usually associated with November or December. In the bas-de-page, a group of white-clad men are playing at marbles, while another is trying his luck on a pair of stilts. On the following page, below the saints' days for September and a roundel of a scorpion for Scorpio, is a scene of men playing a game that closely resembles golf (hence the name given to this manuscript, the Golf Book); for more details on this unique depiction, please see our post A Good Walk Spoiled." - maitani - -

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Berliner Lautarchiv British and Commonwealth recordings - Accents and dialects | British Library - Sounds - http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents...

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A real life Henry Higgins! That's pretty neat. I'd love to record the different accents and dialects of the US. It's funny when people visit/move to Los Angeles and they say, "People say I have an accent!" They do, but they think they sound like us. - maitani - -

"The Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth Recordings is a subset of an audio archive made between 1915 and 1938 by German sound pioneer, Wilhelm Doegen. Enlisting the support of numerous academics, Doegen sought to capture the voices of famous people, and languages, music and songs from all over the world. The collection acquired by the British Library in 2008 comprises 821 digital copies of shellac discs held at the Berliner Lautarchiv at the Humboldt Universität. It includes recordings of British prisoners of war and colonial troops held in captivity on German soil between 1915 and 1918 and later recordings made by Doegen in Berlin and on field trips to Ireland and elsewhere. The content of the recordings varies and includes reading passages, word lists, speeches and recitals of songs and folk tales in a variety of languages and dialects." - maitani - -

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The Great Language Game - http://greatlanguagegame.com/

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Indigenous languages of Australia indigi_map.png (PNG-Grafik, 2379 × 1918 Pixel) - Skaliert (40%) - http://www.abc.net.au/indigen...

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The Wikipediafication of Fine Art | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiar...

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"A lot of Renaissance art is stuffed with symbols we hardly see now: oh, that orange on the table in Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding? Means sex and money, like a boss. Or before The Fall because it’s not an apple. The single, lit candle? The Holy Spirit. Spheroid mirror with the shadowy figure looking at the scene? Both the artist and God at the same time." - maitani - -

"Another of my peers did a wonderful piece that involved coffee due to the consumption on campus: the art touched on the coffee trade, the history of the New World, sustainable and ethical farming and more. It was a rich and full-bodied piece of art (I wish I had it here to share), the very opposite of Shake’n'Bake stuff. I was struck by it, and a number of pieces in the class having been affected by the internet. Quick access to knowledge at artists’ fingertips begat livelier paintings with more mystery and depth. I think I produced some of the best art of my life (so far) after that realization. I had to, to keep up. Does this mean a return to the days of Van Eyck? I think not. Science-inspired fine art will be hopefully about more than symbols of sex and power and violence. I hope. But I think the concept of a rich visual vocabulary is making a return." - maitani - -

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