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| | | | The purpose of this post is to share two of my favorite slides from the PowerPoint I prepared for my recent talk at the NECTFL conference. The slides summarize the history of the two most irregular... | |
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| | | | The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One of my favorite words is lox," says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New [...] | |
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| | | | How many languages are there in the world? Seventy-two. Why are there no more and no fewer? Because of the three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japhet. Shem had twenty-seven sons, Ham had thirty sons, Japhet had fifteen sons. These added together are seventy-two. This text comes from a dialogue between Pope Damasus and... | |
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| | A Curriculum of Current Phonetic Shorthand : Henry Sweet's [Current Shorthand][current][^1] is a historical curiosity twice over: once because very few people today need to learn shorthand at all or even know what it is; twice because as shorthands go, it's |