As the Greek philos and logos together have been to tell, love of mind and language has been the meaning and sense of the field. Regarding an idea as ugly as a mind without natural language — love is dainty. More→
Category: Language bias
Prejudice about language and/or language professionals.
No man, woman, child, or house, with the pie
The Proto-Indo-European "mother of tongues" does not have words for men, women, children, or houses that European languages would have in common. More→
British grammar nazis
Much has been written about the Second World War, including Hitler's evident lack of linguistic finesse. Therefore, I will do some pondering only, on the British who want to be grammar nazis. More→
Apples on noses
Ms. de Lange's purpose was to compare monolingual and bilingual children in tests on syntax, that is, ways to put words together. She says that to speak two languages is like to have two minds. More→
Tongue entanglement
Irish people speak English out of submissiveness. You cannot dominate someone who does not speak your language, and those were the English to bring the language to Ireland — Diarmaid Ferriter ventured his frown at human glibness on RTE One. More→
Larry Selinker’s interlanguage
A “latent psychological structure” becomes woken in the brain, when a human being learns a second language, said Mr. Selinker. More→
