Archive for the 'language' Category

"Whatever it's background, the tape contains no less than 547 of what it calls “Typical American Expressions”, each with an explanation and an example...read by this rather humorless and mechanical sounding announcer."

Brief summary of HTML through the years.

Discusses new advances in neuroscience, which imply that language is understood using larger portions of the brain than previously thought.

"The main loss when a language dies is not cultural but aesthetic. The click sounds in certain African languages are magnificent to hear. In many Amazonian languages, when you say something you have to specify, with a suffix, where you got the information. The Ket language of Siberia is so awesomely irregular as to seem a work of art."

Two time capsules buried at Flushing Meadow, to be uncovered 5000 years after being buried.

Icelandic segment of Forvo, tagline: All the words in the world. Pronounced.

"Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage—" "Your rage will become your master? That's what you were gonna say, right? Right?" "...Not necessarily."

A number of statistical approaches to the history of the Nobel Prize, centered on the languages written in by the winners.

The result of trying to figure out if there were any movies that I could have watched in High School Latin. The lists include any movie that includes the given language. So it could be more interesting. Also, the >/< 500 division seems sort of silly.

Vale! I took Latin in middle school and high school for a total of 5 years, I think. I'd be hard pressed to remember much of it now, but I did manage to test out of it during college. Luckily this list exists of all that can be said in Latin. (dead, bah!)