Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Honorifics
A letter arrived at the Sydney University Linguistics department just the other day from Japan, and the way the addressee was worded impressed me immensely, as It’s the first time I’ve experienced real-life honorifics.
6 Comments » - Posted in Honorifics,Japanese,Languages,Linguistics by jangari
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Diabolical
To continue the saga of the stolen wordlists (see my own posts on this here and here, or Peter Austin’s posts here and here for background) I’ve decided that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. It is with that in mind that I give you (over the fold) the Murrinh-Patha crossword puzzle, my own [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Endangered Languages,Indigenous,Languages,Linguistics,Murrinh-Patha by jangari
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Beware of the Plagiarist
A few posts back, I wrote about a book that David Nash had found on Amazon.com, which appeared to be a bi-directional crossword-puzzle book between English and Wageman [sic1]. It seemed as though these books, and a few others on Amazon on Wageman, contained the very same wordlist collected by a previous researcher and published [...]
