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Scribes as Scheiße

about 10 hours ago

[This is a guest post by Diana Shuheng Zhang] In Kṣemendra's (c...

Pitch accent in Japanese

about 21 hours ago

How can you teach / learn these pitch differences?   Selected readings "Should...

Keelung ("chicken coop")

1 day ago

When I first learned the name of this important port city in...

The Oldest (Known) Song Ever

3 days ago

That's the title of a 9:23 video by a mysterious figure named...

Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' through time and space

4 days ago

Following upon our enthusiastic, productive discussions on the main East Asian word...

Schleicher's PIE "The Sheep and the Horses" (reprise)

5 days ago

"Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might...

The gender of a key

5 days ago

Julesy's knowledge of linguistics is not restricted to East Asia This video...

Sacré bleu!

6 days ago

I could write an entire post about this euphemistic French oath (lit...

French girl sells crêpes in a Taiwan market, part 2

6 days ago

Do you remember Charlotte, who was selling authentic French style crepes in...

What good are kanji?

7 days ago

Why Do Japanese Still Use Kanji? Complicated Writing System… That Japanese Man...

Spontaneities

8 days ago

Over the years, I've posted several times about the problematic word (and...

L-complex

8 days ago

From Peter Daniels Do the 7 or 8 (or whatever) “dialects” of...