Good

Another Language Log quickie.

On the way back from the LSA meeting, having finished the light reading that I had brought with me, I bought Steve Berry's The Alexandria Link. At pp. 418-419 we read:

These words were chiseled into the granite below.

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The Dead and Dying

Another Language Log post! This one quotes a review of a textbook, the review questioning some of the conventional wisdom within the field of linguistics about dying languages:

Much of the problem is apparent in the rhetorical stances of many of the authors in this …

Strange

So I finally went through one of my old and full notebooks and transcribed all the interesting parts onto my computer. I think of an entire Moleskine there were ten bits worth reading. I guess that's not a terrible ratio, all things considered.

Anyway, among them were …