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Beyond Highbrow
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/
Independent Left journalist in California. Trustafarian in a shackteau, slumming it up in the barrio. Revolutionary, patriotic Leftist, Christian, liberation theology, replacement theology.
Notorious provocateur and iconoclast, smashes all party lines.
Presently channeling Andy Kaufman, Tony Clifton, Lenny Bruce, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Kinky Friedman, Hunter S. Thompson and Wally Gator. Shoot first.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 5041 )
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A Look at Iroquoian Languages
From here.A look at the difficulties involved in learning an Iroquoian language for an English speaker. Iroquoian languages are probably some of the most... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
India, Land of Rapes
Here. American college student goes to India and endures the usual endless creepathon dealing with groping, masturbating, gawking, stalking, assaulting,... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Animal Adjectives
Here.Amazing, a whole bunch of English words you’ve never even heard of before. These are adjectives describing certain animals, meaning: like a, similar to,... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT -
Language Difficulty and Racial IQ
Neo asks:As a linguist and race realist, is there a correlation between language hardness and racial IQ?There is no relationship at all between language... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Hardest Languages on Earth Found in China
Article here.Video here.The most complex language on Earth is Fengxian Wu, spoken near Shanghai. The second most complex was the language of the Dong people of... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Danish Language
Danish is a harder language to learn than one might think. It’s not that hard to read or even write, but it’s quite hard to speak. However, like English,... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Norwegian Language
From here.This is a look at the Norwegian language from the POV of an English speaker trying to learn it. The truth is that Norwegian is probably one of the... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Italian Language
From here.A look at the Italian language from the POV of an English speaker trying to learn it. Compared to other Romance languages, Italian is about average... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 LANGUAGES -
A Look at the Hebrew Language
From here.A look at how hard it is for an English speaker to learn Hebrew. Truth is that Hebrew is one of the hardest languages on Earth to learn. Read more
Posted on 24 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Icelandic Language
From here.A look at Icelandic from the view of how hard it is to learn for an English speaker. Icelandic is often considered to be one of the hardest languages... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Romanian Language
From here.A look at Romanian from the viewpoint of an English speaker trying to learn the language. Romanian is one of the hardest languages to learn in the... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the French Language
From here.A look at the French language from the viewpoint of an English speaker trying to learn the language. French is one of the hardest Romance languages... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Who Were the Ancient Central Asians?
Sacae writes:Rob, were the ancient central Asians White just like Europeans, were they Slavic?Hi, the ancient IE people from the steppes were very, very White. Read more
Posted on 23 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Sacae writes:Rob, Were the Ancient Central Asians White j...
Sacae writes:Rob, were the ancient central Asians White just like Europeans,were they Slavic?Hi, the ancient IE people from the steppes were very, very White. Read more
Posted on 23 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Navajo Language
From here. A look at the Navajo language and how hard it is for an English speaker or really anyone for that matter, to learn this language from Hell. Navajo... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Korean Language
From here. A look at the Korean from the perspective of an English speaker trying to learn the language. The truth is that Korean is one of the hardest language... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Greek Language
From here.A look at the Greek language from the POV of how hard it is for an English speaker to learn it. The truth is that Greek is a very hard language to... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Swedish Language
From here. A look at Swedish from the POV of how hard it is for an English speaker to learn it. Compared to other languages, Swedish is pretty easy to... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Arabic Languages
From here. This post will look at the Arabic languages from the POV of how hard they are to learn for an English speaker.Afroasiatic SemiticSemitic languages... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Thai and Lao Languages
From here.A look at the Thai and Lao languages with a view towards how hard it is for an English speaker to learn the language. These languages are quite hard t... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY
