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Revisited - Slang
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was published in 1918, but still gives a good insight on how and why slang is made. Also, compare which slang words it talks to are still in use today...
January / February 2013
We Are The Linguists
We Are The Linguists
In 2010, on the 20th birthday of the Budapest ELTE-MTA Theoretical Linguistics Programme, some of the
professors and students created and performed their own version of "We Are The World".
Video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
January / February 2013
Revisited - Proverbs
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was published in 1918, but still gives a good insight on how and why proverbs are created and used.
Every child knows what a proverb is, though every...
March / April 2013
Linguistics Love Song
λ♥ (Linguistics Love Song)
Let me have your heart and I will give you love
The denotation of my soul is the above
I f there's anything I lack, it's
you as my double brackets
You make me mean things
I can't say enough.
Consider me your anaphor,...
March / April 2013
A Language Dream
Last night I had a sort of a language dream, that is, a dream involved with language-learning or with speaking foreign languages. Dreaming in a foreign language is not uncommon among language enthusiasts, the so-called "language freaks", but this...
May / June 2013
Revisited - Words From National Character
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
There is one group of metaphorical words which is specially interesting for the stories of the past which they tell...
May / June 2013
Revisited - Stories In The Names Of Places
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
White covered mountains of Albania
The stories which the names of places can tell us are many more in number, and...
July / August 2013
New Souls
Ronald woke up as if it was just another ordinary day. He couldn't imagine what surprises the linguistic world reserved for him under the striking mid-afternoon sun.
Having been into the language "business" for so long, he had been lately resigned...
July / August 2013
Special Feature - Avoiuli
Language and culture are always intertwined. We gain some knowledge of a culture when we learn its language, and when we learn about a culture, we have to incorporate the language.
Sometimes, the two become even more closely linked. That is the case...
September / October 2013
Revisited - Legends of Maui - Maui's Home
[Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Legends of Ma-Ui, a Demi God of Polynesia and of his Mother Hina" by W. D. Westervelt. It was published in 1910. ]
Maui is a demi god. The Maui story probably contains a larger number of unique and ancient...
September / October 2013
Revisited - Legends of Maui - Maui Snaring the Sun
[Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Legends of Ma-Ui, a Demi God of Polynesia and of his Mother Hina" by W. D. Westervelt. It was published in 1910. ]
Maui is a demi god. The Maui story probably contains a larger number of unique and ancient...
September / October 2013
Cracking the Code
Reading is usually the first skill you manage to acquire satisfactorily in a foreign language. Even though you might have memorized some key sentences and their expected answers from a phrasebook or from your beginner's textbook, it is much more likely...
November / December 2013
Revisited - Words From The Names Of Animals
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
It is easy to see how names of persons have sometimes changed into general words. But we have also a great number...
November / December 2013
When Languages Meet
We live in a world of ever changing borders. For thousands of years, the tribes, villages, cities and nations of the world have moved, expanded and contracted to meet the needs of their citizens, and these constant changes have come at a price. When...
January / February 2014
Revisited - Words Made By Great Writers
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
As we have seen, languages while they are living are always growing and changing. We have seen how new names have...
January / February 2014
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