Offizielle Facebook Seite des Studentischen Kulturell-Sprachlichen Zirkels Babel der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Sprache. Kultur. Babel.
In den Zeiten vor dem Turmbau zum Babel gab es, wie man sich sagte, nur eine Sprache. Mit einem Schlag wurde die ganze bekannte Welt verändert. Es entstanden tausende von Sprachen, tausende von Kulturen, tausende von Welten. Der Studentische Kulturell-Sprachliche Zirkel Babel ist eine studentische Initiative, welche einen intensiven Austausch der an Sprache und Kultur interessierten Studenten alle
05/08/2018
On the recent mainstreamization of the Maori language:
'Māori has gone mainstream': the resurgence of New Zealand's te reo language Nation’s native tongue is undergoing a revival – lessons are packed, songs are top of the pops, and even the prime minister wants to be part of it
26/06/2018
"In early Chinese writing, the forms usually depicted something. The character for “fire” looked like fire, the character for “dog” looked like a dog. But that can only take you so far before you have to get creative. It’s difficult to pictographically represent words like “sweet,” “love” and “tomorrow”, so people started combining characters to create new characters."
Radical Characters – China Channel The real building blocks of the Chinese writing system – John Renfroe If you’re learning to write in Chinese, you’ve probably been advised to learn the 214 standard “radicals,” those alleged “building blocks” of the character system. Perhaps you’ve tried to discern the meaning of an ...
26/02/2018
Only three people speak this language Three old men in remote northern Pakistan are thought to be the very last Badeshi speakers.
18/09/2017
Wenn Politiker anfangen die Sprache zu regulieren... :)
Steven Pinker tells a "F*cking Brilliant" story about profanity & the law Steven Pinker is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition and has authored ten books...
29/08/2017
Hört oder liesst wie der berühmte Unabomber anhand von linguistischen Verhandlungsmethoden geschnappt wurde:
FBI Profiler Says Linguistic Work Was Pivotal In Capture Of Unabomber James R. Fitzgerald says Ted Kaczynski's writings helped crack the case that confounded the FBI for more than 17 years. Manhunt: Unabomber, a TV series on the Discovery Channel, retells the story.
26/08/2017
10/08/2017
A Proportional Visualization of the World’s Most Popular Languages Click to view in a big, high-res format Last week we highlighted for you a beautiful Tree of Languages infographic, created by Minna Sundberg using data from ethnologue.com.
17/08/2016
https://oldlampsfornew.com/2013/08/31/can-you-think-without-language/
Can you think without language? It’s almost impossible to study humans in the absence of language. Our brains soak it up so voraciously that only the most isolated people reach adulthood without it–and then only becau…
31/07/2016
The 17th-Century Language that Divided Everything in the Universe into 40 Categories So much effort. Such little payoff.
09/07/2016
Chinese Posters 200 Highlights from the collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Stefan R. Landsberger (University of Amsterdam, Leiden University).
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Nihao - Meet Chinese Characters Nihao is a simple memory game designed to familiarize yourself with Chinese characters
03/06/2016
“Stephen: Do you recall what it was I said to you the last time you were in here?
Hugh: Well sir. You told me to move my ass, and haul my ass, and not to sit on my ass, because if I did, you would personally rearrange my ass.”
In Which We Get to the Bottom of Some Crazy-Ass Language | JSTOR Daily Strong language has a unique place in linguistics.