Thanks to Lev’s last post on the movie The Linguists, I’ve found a few jewels of videos on endangered language documentation, revitalization, etc. The Linguists – Archiving for Speakers and Linguists is just one of them, but you’ll see some more related videos at the bottom of the screen.
Archive for the ‘linguistics’ Category
7 May
mullar-se amb frases fetes
Se m’acaba d’ocorrer que potser aquestes dues expressions idiomatiques o frases fetes tenen alguna relacio… “mullar-se”, “posar-se de peus a la galleda” Quan un no es vol “mullar” el que no vol es jugar-se-la afirmant una cosa de la qual no esta segur; si parles, podria equivocar-se, vulgarment, “cagar-la”, o familiarment i en certs contextos, [...]
22 Apr
random encounters
I was on the bike trailer this morning, heading to UCSC campus, when I told the shuttle driver about my linguistic work. We’d met many times before, but he is so talkative that most of our previous conversations had turned around his stuff –all he knew about me is that I was in a graduate [...]
