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linguaphiles, jess linguaphiles linguathon is currently preparing for its 2009 commencement. Our goal is to study a language (or languages), daily, for one month, all the while logging our progress. At the end of the month, we can then look back and see how much we've learned. :) Hope to see you there!To the memory of Vladislav Illich-Svitych. This is just to bring attention to something very ‘Nostratic’ (far beyond ‘Indo-European’ languages —…
"... Agenor, king of the Phoenician city of Sidon, had a beautiful daughter Europa, literally (in Greek) the "wide-eyed". In fact, of course, not…
The English word climax has two seemingly incompatible meanings of "climax" and "orgasm". Yet, we should not forget that the word has not only a…