One of my favorite freak-out-the-students words is mentioned in the latest (for now) Language Log post:
Spell this (could Irish take the gold?)
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=499
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Showing posts with label Máire's hopeless crush on Language Log. Show all posts
Monday, August 18, 2008
Friday, August 10, 2007
There's no word for what now?
With a grateful tip of the hat to my friend Brain for pointing this out!
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001979.html
[EDIT: Yes I mean "Brain!" It's a nickname. See for yourself at his blog! (PG rating, folks....)]
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001979.html
[EDIT: Yes I mean "Brain!" It's a nickname. See for yourself at his blog! (PG rating, folks....)]
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
When cooler heads prevail
Language Log: BBC approves.... (***possibly upsetting language warning!***)
from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004633.html
Wow, a whole long article in which the word "gob" (typically understood to mean "mouth") plays an important role, and not once is it trotted out that it means "beak" or "bill" in Irish!
What's that feeling? I think it's...it's relief.
Why?
Because it's just not clear where the English word came from. There, I said it.
from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004633.html
Wow, a whole long article in which the word "gob" (typically understood to mean "mouth") plays an important role, and not once is it trotted out that it means "beak" or "bill" in Irish!
What's that feeling? I think it's...it's relief.
Why?
Because it's just not clear where the English word came from. There, I said it.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Catagoacha, a dhuine ar bith?
You may be aware of a type of image macro that's gotten pretty popular among the young folks lately, known as cat macros or lolcats. If you're feeling clueless just about now, you might go see the following:
Lolcat (Wikipedia entry)
"Cats Can Has Grammar"
As you can probably tell from the latter, I'm interested in this trend partially from a linguistic point of view. Language Log has oodles of entertaining stuff on this and related macros -- see "Linguist Macros?" for one, and the next article after that for another.
In the "Linguist Macros?" article, I was stunned to see that there are actually people out there who have toyed with the idea of trying this as Gaeilge. I thought I was the only one with a brain freakish enough to have ideas like that.... At any rate, the fact that they went ahead and did it has the wheels in my brain turning. There are some standard practices in the English macros, language-wise...how would this be realized in Irish? Wes and I have been chatting and we've got some ideas. Go see the "Linguist Macros?" article, and click on the link supplied by Amy "mhwombat" de Buitléir, to catch up....
Lolcat (Wikipedia entry)
"Cats Can Has Grammar"
As you can probably tell from the latter, I'm interested in this trend partially from a linguistic point of view. Language Log has oodles of entertaining stuff on this and related macros -- see "Linguist Macros?" for one, and the next article after that for another.
In the "Linguist Macros?" article, I was stunned to see that there are actually people out there who have toyed with the idea of trying this as Gaeilge. I thought I was the only one with a brain freakish enough to have ideas like that.... At any rate, the fact that they went ahead and did it has the wheels in my brain turning. There are some standard practices in the English macros, language-wise...how would this be realized in Irish? Wes and I have been chatting and we've got some ideas. Go see the "Linguist Macros?" article, and click on the link supplied by Amy "mhwombat" de Buitléir, to catch up....
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