The Tower of Babel

Dear Minions,


The previous post preached about a cloud with a mission. But this one will speak of work of professional, devoted and serious people whose mission is to build that Tower of Babel in the middle of Novi Sad:)
For every soul out there who craves for comprehensibility of other people's holy work, there is a true and fair way to make it happen. And for every enthusiast who wants to join this awesome crew and interpret scriptures and manuals for them, the high priests of the Order of Prevedi are more than willing to accept all of you...
http://prevedi.rs/


Follow their mission:)


May The Linguistics Be With You!
Phonemma

Then There Was Nothing But A Cloud...

Dear Followers, 

I have failed once again. If I but tried to preserve the flare that kept this religion alive, the world would be a better place, for this I am certain. Some might argue this was a safer route for our pilgrimage, i.e. no route at all; but I beg to differ! We only procrastinated, and that is a stage every true follower must go through.

Before we gather more servants, before we resurrect again as a more divine and stronger religion, we shall cherish and support others that try to make the web world happier and safer place. 

First we start with a cloud...a cloud that is floating the websky, sharing space and data with other clouds, storing valuable possessions of innocent users and keeping them safe...

Let me introduce Neebo Cumulonimbus! He was kind enough to share his poem with us, so I invite everyone to keep his poem alive:)

http://www.encryptedfilestorage.com/neebos-poem-on-green-cloud/

Until the next post,

Your humble servant and Emissary,

Phonemma 

May The Linguistics Be With You!

Religion Resurrected

Dearly beloved,


We gathered here to celebrate the birth, the death and the resurrection of this blog. It lived for some time, peacefully, promoting the new-made religion without any pressure whatsoever, it roamed the Internet, craving for attention it undoubtedly deserved...And then it died, quietly, not announced, like it never existed before...It was in April, with his shoures soote...The High Emissary was devastated, never fully recovered, reminded of the day when the blog died over and over again, she couldn't do anything...why is that, we will never know, but one day, she preached to the world that she will bring the blog back from the dead...people cheered, but the Emissary failed them...she disappointed the humble believers that everything will be again like before, like in the good days...she also went on a pilgrimage in the holy land of herbs, flowers, mills and debauchery to seek a way out of this misery. She wasn't able to find the inner peace there for quite some time...But, then, a miracle happened! The Sloth suddenly leaved her soul and she got an epiphany! The priests and the masses held in this new Temple she is in, changed her views...and she decided that it is time...it is time to bring it back...and now she is doing it, carefully, slowly, patiently, devotedly...and this is, my mortal friends, her first attempt...


May The Linguistics Be With Thou!

Linguistically Speaking, Let's Have A Talk

Dear worshipers,

At last we have the promised Linguistic Talk...If you jump into a time machine, You will remember that this is what prof. Tanja mentioned during our first Masses of Historical Linguistic (may it rest in peace)...

So, that day is close...closer than you think...it is on Friday...this Friday...at noon...probably in the room 31...symbolically...peachy!!!

Be there!!!

May The Linguistics Be With You!!!

EGG...Not EEG or ECG, but EGG!

Dear followers,

Remember what prof. Maja said about that summer school in Romania?? Here some general info:

"We are pleased to announce this year's Central European Summer School
in Generative Grammar, to be held in:

Cluj, Romania

from July 26th - August 6th

Registration is taking place from May 10th until May 21st at

http://egg.auf.net

where more detailed information is available.

The school is free (there is no tuition fee), and dorm beds will be
approximately 5 Euros per night. Students from former communist
countries in Central and Eastern Europe can apply for financial
support (covering travel, visa and/or accommodation expenses).

There will be three types of classes: introductory classes, topical
classes and research classes. The list of courses and teachers is
appended below."

Intro classes:

Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) Introduction to Syntax
Curt Rice (Tromso) Introduction to Optimality Theory
Michael Wagner (MIT) Introduction to Prosody and the Syntax/Phonology
 Interface
Luisa Marti (U Leipzig) Introduction to Semantics (I)
Orin Percus (Firenze) Introduction to Semantics (II)

Topical Classes:

Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) Movement and Interpretation
Markus Kracht (UCLA) Syntactic Representations: from Chains to
 Multidominance
Curt Rice (Tromso) Issues in the Phonology of Paradigms
Tobias Scheer (Nice) The Representation of Core Phonological Objects
 and Processes
Luisa Marti (U Leipzig) & Orin Percus (Firenze) Covert Variables at LF
Alexandra Cornilescu (Bucharest) t.b.a.
Jonathan Kaye (Girona) t.b.a.
Hilda Koopman (UCLA) t.b.a.
Tom Roeper (Umass) t.b.a.

Research classes

Oystein Nilsen (Tromso) Conservative Shape Conservation 
Oystein Nilsen (Tromso) The Case Filter and its Semantics 
Michael Wagner (MIT) Deriving Prosody in Syntax 
Markus Kracht (UCLA) Language and Space 
Tobias Scheer (Nice) How the Big Guys (Morphology, Syntax, Semantics)
 Talk to Phonology, and What They Tell Her

Sprechen Sie, kako molim???

Trinaestogodišnja devojčica iz Knina probudila se pre dve nedelje iz kome i umesto maternjim, progovorila tečnim nemačkim jezikom, prenose hrvatski mediji.

Pored pedijatara, devojčicu su pregledali bolnički defektolog i psiholog, ali uzrok promene jezika još ne znaju, preneo je hrvatski list "24 sata" koji navodi da je, posle kome, devojčica znala nemački mnogo bolje no što ga je mogla naučiti u školi.

Devojčica je primljena u splitsku bolnicu pre dva mesecaa zbog trovanja krvi.
Neuropsihijatar i sudski veštak Mijo Milas ističe da je ovaj slučaj medicinski neobjašnjiv, a dolazi iz duboke podsvesti.

 

"Mnogo toga se može se sačuvati duboko u mozgu mladog čoveka, tako da je devojčica mogla percipirati nemački jezik iz okoline ili školskih lekcija daleko više nego što se očekivalo ili što je izgovarala. Moguće je da je bila i mentalno povezana s nekim ko je izučavao u njenoj blizini taj jezik", ukazao je neuropsihijatar.

 

Milas podseća da su i u mnogobrojnoj literaturi opisani ljudi koji su povratkom iz nesvesnog stanja progovorili drevnim jezicima. 

Your High Emissary is puzzled...


May The Linguistics Be With Yee!!!

Why, oh, why???

Why is abbreviated such a long word?
Why does monosyllabic have five syllables?
Why is brassiere singular and panties plural?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?
Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?
Why do they call it a building? It looks like they're finished. Why isn't it a built?
Why is it when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
If price and worth mean the same thing, why priceless and worthless are opposites?
Is there another word for synonym?
Is it possible to be totally partial?

Na'vi

Dear followers,

Check this out, this is just too weird to be true, but it is...

I see you.

May The Linguistics Be With You!!!

We Know It's True

How many linguists does it take to change a light bulb?
One, but he/she (politically correct) must consult the Oxford English Dictionary.

How many translators does it take to change a light bulb?

One, but he/she must first find out from which language this joke is translated.

How many literature people (if you have a different term for them, please say:))) does it take to change a light bulb?

Depends on what the writer wanted to say with that.

How many teachers does it take to change a light bulb?

One, but he/she must first check its knowledge about changing light bulbs.