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• Ukraine Mini-SITREP: Very Ominous Developments

  The latest from the Saker. It really looks like the Ukie Nazis are getting ready to attack. There’s never been any cease-fire. There’s been fighting all along... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• ATT Internet Is Shit

  This thing goes offline every single day multiple times a day. This is something new. They used to almost never go offline even for one second. It’s like their... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Roots of English

  Here is a little quiz for you.1. Looking at the 2,000 most commonly used words in English, what language represents the greatest percentage of that total?... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Is a Lect?

  This is an interesting word that is apparently used in Linguistics sometimes. The first time I heard it was when I writing to Ethnologue to try to get them try... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Would Anyone Be a Patriotard in the First Place?

  I honestly cannot understand patriotards. They make no sense at all to me. In order to be a patriotard, you have to believe that your government never does... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Nominay, “Panetta, Obama, and the Central Intelligence Agency”

  Nice post from Nominay’s site:From my Facebook status update:Leon Panetta has released a new book. I took an interest in reading it because a source on the... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America Brings Freedom and Democracy to the World

  

  Republicans are neoconservatives and Democrats are humanitarian bombers and liberal interventionists. In America, you have a real choice: you choose which... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Scots Texts

  Here are some texts in the Scots language. I am getting really tired of people who keep insisting that this is just a dialect of English. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Intelligibility Figures for Romance Languages

  Here is some new work I did on mutual intelligibility in the Romance family. If you speak any of these languages, feel free to chime in. The one figure I am... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Germanic Influence on French

  I knew that French had some Germanic influence, but I did not know where it was from. I thought maybe it was from the Gauls. But it turns out it was from a... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why All The Language Posts?

  If you want to know where all the language interest is coming from:I have a Master’s Degree in Linguistics, I sit on the Peer Review board of a linguistics... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Romance Languages Do You Know?

  If you are interested, tell us in the comments what Romance languages you have knowledge of. As you can see, I am into Romance languages. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Spanish-Italian Mutual Intelligibility

  See this video here.This is an interview with the director of a documentary called Rio De Onor which I would really like to see, except that it is in Italian. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Scots Lexicon

  Here is a brief lexicon of some common words in the Scots language. The notion that Scots is a separate language from English frequently evokes howls of rage fo... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bigfoot News October 19, 2014

  Additional evidence in favor of the Stacy Brown story. As you remember, I broke a story a while back about Stacy Brown being offered $500K for a supposed Bigfoo... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Praise for Beyond Highbrow

  Here is an example of the some of the praise I have gotten around the Net. I don’t have only haters, you know.First, on the non-Bigfoot stuff:Lindsay is an indi... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Check Out Furniello Berciano

  This is an extremely interesting lect being spoken here. It looks more like Furniello spoken in the Fornela Valley region around where Asturias, Leon and Galici... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Romance Mutual Intelligibility Overrated?

  Paul S. writes:I can speak Spanish decently, though I read it better, and that wasn’t a tough read. That being said, I can read Portuguese pretty well too and... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Purpose of This Website

  I found this in the comments section a long time ago, but it’s as true now as ever. The whole idea of this website is to piss off as many people as people all... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Language Is This?

  This one is a trick question because formally speaking, this is not even considered to be a language by linguists. Ethnologue will just tell you that this is a... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY