Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
4-down, misappropriation of traditional knowledge
Over the weekend, David Nash drew my attention to a book that he found on Amazon, that purported to contain bilingual crosswords puzzles in English and Wageman1.
I was a bit perlexed by this, since, well, Wagiman doesn’t have much in the way of practical applications such as second-language learning, that is, of course, beyond the [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Endangered Languages, Indigenous, Languages, Lexicography, Linguistics, Wagiman by jangari
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
More spam, or What I’ve been doing
I received this piece of concise, witty and rather insightful spam in the inbox of my work address this morning, and as it amused me I thought I’d share it.
From: Monte CunninghamSubject: best
your life is crap
Mr Cunningham clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I’ve been so busy between tutoring, compiling electronic dictionaries and my [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Indigenous, Kaurna, Lexicography, Linguistics by jangari
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Marn Grook and the History Wars
Last night’s 7:30 Report featured a report on the origins of AFL footfall, and specifically that it may have been inspired by a game played by the Aborigines of western Victoria called Marn Grook.
The main proponent of this theory is Jim Poulter, a descendant of settlers who saw Marn Grook played at the goldfields near [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Culture, History, Indigenous, Sport by jangari
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Not friendly milk as such
…but here is an equally improbable sentence that my housemate uttered this morning1:
I had the foresight to turn my phone off before I passed out, the wrong way around, on my sandwich.
Gold.
I refer to the ‘tricky linguistics‘ sketch from A bit of Fry and Laurie ↩
