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- In this post, I mentioned that "V.N. Volóshinov's seminal books Freudianism: A Critical Sketch (1927) and Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1929) have recently been said to be the work of his mentor Bakhtin"; this controversy (along with the parallel one of The Formal Method in Literary Criticism, attributed to Pavel Medvedev) is thoroughly discussed in Matt Steinglass's International Man of Mystery: |
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- A Bill Poser post at the Log shows a nice color photograph of "a pot used for collecting toddy (palm sap, modern Tamil கள்ள&# made about 1800 years ago" and links to an article from The Hindu: |
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- A post at Linguism links to a useful-looking site that "tracks the distribution of family names in Great Britain in 1881 and 1998":This gives the absolute frequency of a name, and also its relative frequency (occurrences per million of the population) and ranking (where its frequency stands in relation to all other family names). There is also a map which shows the areas where the name appears most frequently.Graham uses it to show that Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges (whose books on name origins are a pillar of my reference shelf) are mistaken about the origin of the surname Pointon. |
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- My wife suggested I take a break from the depressing reading I've been doing (Andrew Meier's excellent but bleak Black Earth), so I pulled Flashman off my shelves. It was recommended to me many years ago by my friend Dave, and it seemed just the sort of rollicking nonsense to lighten my mood. Not only is the plot fun (although larded with the casual misogyny of an earlier day), but the dialogue is full of delightful archaic words. The first that struck me came on page 44: "'Deloped, by God! |
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CHAKOBSA. (May 21 2008 00:50 GMT) - Those of you who have read Frank Herbert's Dune will remember the Fremen language Chakobsa, described by Wikipedia as "a mixture of Roma (or gypsy) language..., one sentence in Serbo-Croat and various Arabic terms." Imagine my surprise when I was reading Lesley Blanch's absorbing if overheated The Sabres of Paradise (1960), about the Russian-Chechen conflicts of the nineteenth century, and hit this on page 21: "They laughed derisively, speaking among themselves in that mysterious tongue, Chakobsa, 'the Hunting Language', which the rulers and Princes used when they wished to converse in secret, and of which no more than a few words have been discovered." I found a further allusion to it in Twelve Secrets of the Caucasus by "Essad Bey" (one of the pseudonyms used by the remarkable Lev Nussimbaum, whom I discussed in this post), first published in 1930 as Zwö |
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BUMPY. (May 21 2008 00:50 GMT) - A recent Ask MetaFilter question asks "Do you call your grandfather Bumpy?"I've known a couple people in my time who called their grandfathers by the title Bumpy [lastname]... I assumed that it was Southern (or maybe Texan) and that it was uncommon, but not completely unheard of. A short office conversation now has me wondering if it's just some weird thing that a couple of the people I know have in common. 1. |
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- Lexicographer Ben Zimmer (now of Visual Thesaurus) has a new Slate article on procrastination:The promise of "another day" is the key to the word's origin. It derives from the Latin verb procrastinare, combining the prefix pro- "forward" with crastinus "of tomorrow"—hence, moving something forward from one day until the next. Even in ancient Roman times, procrastination was disparaged: The great statesman Cicero, in one of his Philippics attacking his rival Mark Antony, declaimed that "in the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful" (in rebus gerendis tarditas et procrastinatio odiosa est). |
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- A remarkable etymology has been brought to my attention by the indefatigable aldiboronti at Wordorigins.org: "the word surly is no more than an alteration of sirly, which meant lordly, haughty, imperious, acting like a sir in fact." A couple of citations for the original form: 1579 SPENSER Sheph. |
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CONTEXT. (May 21 2008 00:50 GMT) - The Dalkey Archive Press's CONTEXT magazine "was started to create a context for reading modern and contemporary literature and addressing cultural issues," according to an interview with the founder:It is founded upon the rather perverse idea—perverse in terms of how books are treated in our culture—that books do not grow old. That is, they are forever being read by someone for the first time, or even the second or third time. |
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- A couple of items of linguistic interest in today's NYT Magazine: 1) William Safire's column investigates the odd but pleasing word wackadoodle, an insult (comparable to kook(y) or nutjob) which he traces back to a 1995 use in the Philadelphia Inquirer. I plan to use it whenever it seems appropriate. He also, impressively, refuses to take the bait offered by a reader who deplores the phrasing "I approve this message" (rather than "approve of"); he writes: |
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- First off: bulbulovo is back! Those of you who (like me) had started to think of the blogroll link as a sentimental reminder of the good old days can go back to clicking it regularly. And the latest post is a doozy. I didn't even know there was a practice of writing Arabic in Syriac script, let alone that the name for it could be written "Karshuni, carshuni, carchouni, carschouni, karschuni, karšū |
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- A few years ago I did a post about the pronunciation of the tribal name Wampanoag that wound up (thanks to reader Martin) discussing revival efforts as well; now Martin sends me a link to a very interesting Technology Review article by Jeffrey Mifflin on the revival, covering the ground from John Eliot's 1663 Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament [Entire Holy his-Bible God both Old Testament and also New Testament], the first Bible published in America, to three-year-old Mae Alice, "the first native speaker of Wôpanâak for seven generations." It's well worth the read, and I hope there are many more such revivals. |
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- I'm trying, I really am. When I was younger I was an intolerable snoot (to use DFW's silly term), picking apart texts and holding up errors (real or factitious) with repellent glee. Years of linguistics courses, followed by more years of absorbing their descriptive approach, not to mention the tolerance that comes with middle age, have left me readier to roll with the punches, accepting the fact that the language changes faster than I can change with it, amused by my own irritation with usages I happen not to like. Even within the history of this blog, I've grown less eager to seize on linguistic misdeeds found in my endless reading; life is short and one can't expect reporters and editors, increasingly pressed for time, to get everything right. |
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- Claire of Anggarrgoon has a post on the Papuan language Diuwe, about which the Ethnologue entry says only "below 100 meters." The code for the language being DIY, Claire thought a fuller description of the language would make a good "DIY effort":Therefore let me start the ball rolling by claiming that DIY is the only language which supports the hypothesis that altitude affects air stream mechanisms. Its consonant inventory contains 3 stops, four fricatives, 5 laterals, six approximants and seven vowels.Mark Dingemanse of The Ideophone (who alerted me to this project) picks up the ball and runs with it: |
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