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I would actually say that the transposition of one language over another is more a feature of sociolinguistics, not a dissolution of knowledge. It is easy to become emotional about the loss of a unique and fascinating language, but to frame it as the complete loss of a set of "human knowledge" is a ...

masako

Yeah but... sociolinguistics. Well, yeah. However, I would ask what the definition of "dead" is in this context. Are we talking about a language that has little to no record of its history, or are we talking about a language that has been studied and codified but simply isn't spoken anymore? I thin...

masako

It's an exaggeration if you read it to say that every language extinction involves the loss of all of those things, but surely it's true to say that some, perhaps many, language extinctions involve or are related to the loss of one or more of those things? I see it more as a conflation of the ideas...

masako

Muharrem Ertaş - Avşar Bozlağı

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Berek wrote:Certainly most would agree that nerds are associated with blah blah dee blah dee blah blah fuck derp honk bonk ding wheee

masako

I'm glad I saw this thread, I was just about to make one of my own. What I call bs on is this: When languages die, they take with them a vast amount of human knowledge, Harrison says, from how to make medicines out of plants, how to survive in harsh environments, and creation myths and personal hist...

masako

Salmoneus wrote:Because superstition can be shown to be false, at least theoretically.

masako

http://tinyurl.com/33bkcp7

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http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2010/09/28/reviving_wampanoag_earns_linguist_a_genius_grant/ Jessie Little Doe Baird was overcome at the news that her 17 years of linguistic work — resurrecting the language the Wampanoag people spoke and wrote until at least the mid-1800s — had landed her a...

masako

Åge Kruger wrote:
Qang wrote:A guy at might work thinks there are "300 German dialects".

Srs.
Everyone knows there are over 9000.

Well, yeah.

masako

A guy at might work thinks there are "300 German dialects".

Srs.

masako

Miekko wrote:Think, dammit, think!! It isn't that fucking hard.

masako

http://www.archchinese.com/

A nice site for Chinese.

masako

bulbaquil wrote:QUOTE THREAD.

masako

Armada Latina

masako

http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/i ... =Main_Page

A nice website for learning Korean.

masako

Nortaneous wrote:I really wish I had money right about now

oh well, time for me to try and fail to get a job (again)

Yeah, I've had some recent bad luck with employment opportunities as well.

masako

krinnen wrote:This is so cool!

I completely agree. Books are cool.

masako

Åge Kruger wrote:I'm not the one judging anybody's punning skills, Sarge.

But you are judging my judging skills, right?

Hey, one more thing we have in common!

We're gonna be best buddies.

masako

Åge Kruger wrote:Yeah, you're such a good judge of other people's sense of humour.

No better or worse than you, I guess that gives us something in common...

Wanna be pals?

masako

Kruger wrote:'attempt to educate based on erroneous assumption'

Frenchy hat > girly device for holding hair = funny pun

Frenchy hat > girly device for holding hair > weapon used for dead-ness = not funny pun

kthx.

masako

Kruger,

barrette ≠ Beretta

Love,
Qang

masako

Åge Kruger wrote:
Qang wrote:
zompist wrote:It's here. Form an orderly line, please. The more you buy the longer I can wear berets and spend most of my time in coffeeshops.
*barrettes

Honesty goes a long way, Mark.
Do they have open-carry laws in Zompist's state?

masako

zompist wrote:It's here. Form an orderly line, please. The more you buy the longer I can wear berets and spend most of my time in coffeeshops.

*barrettes

Honesty goes a long way, Mark.

masako

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