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They Don’t Want You To Know Linguistics: Bare Literacy

Posted on 03/08/2022 by oligomath

I talked to someone this morning who gave me something to thing about with the They Don’t Want You To Know Linguistics issue. They grew up in the country, in a place where it was still not a given that … Continue reading →

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They Wanted You To Know Linguistics

Posted on 17/07/2022 by oligomath

This is from the foreword of The French Language (2nd Ed. 1953) by Alfred Ewert M.A. Litt.D. in the Faber and Faber “The Great Languages” series. In 1933, when the first edition was published, it was still reasonable to expect … Continue reading →

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Linguistic Science and Linguistic Engineering

Posted on 11/02/2022 by oligomath

there is some complicated knot to be described about how, despite linguistic *science* being woefully unknown and unconscious, linguistic *engineering* albeit at a proto-scientific level, is something people are acutely aware of but which, lacking as they do a linguistic-scientific … Continue reading →

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Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen

Posted on 25/03/2015 by oligomath

Innsbruck, ich muß dich lassen,Ich fahr dahin mein StraßenIn fremde Land dahin.Mein Freud ist mir genommen,Die ich nit weiß bekommen,Wo ich im Elend bin. Groß Leid muß ich jetzt tragen,Das ich allein tu klagenDem liebsten Buhlen mein.Ach Lieb, nun laß … Continue reading →

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