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Alman is a simplified dialect of German designed to reduce the complexity of the language while maintaining mutual intelligibility with Standard German. It systematically eliminates several complex grammatical features:
• Gender System: Uses a single article...
AntC sent me a link to this RNZ story by Layla Bailey-McDowell, saying “This is one of those silly gossip-magazine ‘competitions’ that I wouldn’t bother with except a word in Te Reo Māori is the winner. (...
I always enjoy the NY Times‘ Metropolitan Diary section (little tales of city life sent in by readers), and today there was one that made my linguistic antennae vibrate:
Dear Diary:
My daughter returned home to New York from coll...
Another in my occasional series featuring dubious statements about language by scholars in other fields: Nelson Goering posts on FB about a
In my Kurosawa festival, I’ve gotten to The Bad Sleep Well, which is astonishingly good, with a riveting performance by Mifune — I can’t believe I’d barely heard of it. (Actually, I can, because it’s the grimmest, bitterest movie he ever made aside from Ran<...