Anglo Saxon _cest_ /chest/ is no good as an anatomical term.
Cf. Cheyenne word, _Machesheyo’o_ /Ma-chesh-ey-oh-oh/
Also German _Brustkasten_, lit. ‘breast’ + Kasten, ‘box’, said to be
unrelated to _chest_.
Whaddya think?
A publisher here (Taiwan) was unaware that their "Everyday Indonesian
Conversation" Indonesian/English cassette course was mass produced
with tape speed too fast. As a native English speaker I noticed this
right away and notified the publisher. The publisher along with the
average Taiwanese user of the tape had no idea that anything was
wrong, as they are not native speakers of Indonesian or English, and
merely follow along in the Chinese translation textbook.
This brings up an interesting question of the risks of technology
harming the human race. Imagine a small third world country whos
department of education’s English language teaching master tapes were
manufactured too fast. Would this lead to a whole generation
unwittingly speaking this almost Donald Duck style cartoon voice
English?
[please post replies for discussion instead of mailing them to me.]
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Dan Jacobson; 2F38 LN325 TungShan Rd Sec1; Taichung 406 TAIWAN
Tel:+886-4-2394562 e-mail [but read inoften]: jacob…@fcusqnt.fcu.edu.tw
24 10’44.5"N; 120 42’52.4"E elev. 143m
apocalypse = revelation 6,8 death, 0avatoc = thanatos, masculine in greek
rides pale (chlorine colored) horse, but latin version thereof is feminine
mors. nevertheless, latin ‘rider’ = ‘seated [astride]‘ uses the masculine
qui sedebat = greek o ka0hmevoc = ho cathemenos. it happens to imitate greek,
but could be taken as normal promiscuous gender, since it precedes
rather than refers back to mors. much death iconography has its genesis in
this locus classicus.
bearded bill of asheville = bthur…@unca.edu
Yes, Lithuanian is the best preserved of the European Indo-European
languages (latvian being next). It is said that were sanskrit written in
our alphabet, some passages would be intelligible to the lithuanian.
(Maybe this is an exaggeration – I don’t know).
These are the Indo-Eur branches in Europe-Baltic
Slavic
Celto-Romantic
Germanic
Hellenic
Illyrian
Armenian (perhaps not in Europe)
Baltic and Slavic may be a single group
Romantic and Celtic are now pretty separate
I might have forgotten one -I’m rushing
The Cambridge University Press book entitled "The Languages of Mesoamerica" in
the Cambridge language surveys series (or whatever its precise title is) is now
out of print. I would quite like to obtain a copy, does anyone relatively local
to me (Cambridge University) have a copy that they would like to sell at some
reasonable price (paperback is better than hardback)?
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Chemist and part-time software writer
My opinions are not necessarily my own
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Is there somewhere an Internet resource detailing the table of contents
of linguistic journals? I will move out to a backwater, and while I can
order copies of articles (a guilder a page), I won’t be able to read
other journals than Language.
I am most interested in BSOAS, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia and
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Birman Area.
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Boudewijn Rempt
A.C. Krusemanstraat 57
2032 HE Haarlem
The Netherlands
+31-23-354918
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/
I am currently investigating whether relearning a part of a foreign
language vocabulary enhances a person’s ability to remember the rest
of that vocabulary. Many people appear to believe that a language
‘comes flooding back’ when they begin to relearn it. The question is:
is this restricted solely to vocabulary that is explicitly relearned,
or is there some general facilitation of memory for the entire
vocabulary?
To illustrate: I learned basic French ten years ago. If I am now
tested there will be some (very few) words that I can remember.
If I am then retaught a list of, say 100 words, will that
improve my memory for other UNRELEARNED words? Please note that
I am only referring here to vocabulary – not other more general
aspects of language learning such as grammar or pronunciation.
If you have any experiences, intuitions or references on this idea I
would be very interested to hear from you. If there is sufficient
interest I will post a summary (incl my results so far). I am
particularly interested in references to any work that has been done on
this. Although it seems many people have intuitions about it, I have
been unable to find any published studies.
Regards,
Paul
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Paul Atkins, email: paul.atk…@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk
MRC Applied Psychology Unit, phone: +44 1223 355 294 x202
15 Chaucer Rd, fax: +44 1223 359 062
Cambridge, CB2 2EF, U.K.
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Are there rules?
I use no one exclusively and usually spell it noone.
I have noticed that the middle class in my region also prefers it, and
that the
lower class prefers "nobody", even though I’m guessing "nobody" is more
correct. I would wager that the wealthiest class keeps also with nobody.
TKG
