Smurfs and Linguistics

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

This post is not actually about Smurfs. I will not discuss the language of the Smurfs. (They obviously speak English and Die Schlümpfe speak German.) This post is actually about linguistics. Most of you can feel free to stop reading now. I won’t be offended. Unless you’re my mother, this will probably not interest you.
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100 Words

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

I’m taking this really neat linguistics course this semester. It’s called Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond. It’s all about constructed languages like Klingon, Vulcan, Esperanto, Ido, Elvish, etc.
Anyway, we just finished our first assignment. The assignment was this: Imagine that for some reason something happened to languages and only 100 Words were left. What do [...]

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