Fun
Linguistics Links
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How to say ridiculous things in hundreds of languages On
the edge – taking linguistics to a higher realm See also, Artificial and
Constructed Languages page |
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The origins of some
Michigan place names 15th
century collective nouns – Things like “a harem of mules” More collective nouns and even more (from ojo – see also his list of phobias) Tom Swifties "I
can't believe I ate that whole pineapple!" Tom said, dolefully. The Cliché Finder – A searchable
database to help find just the right cliché Collabo-Write A ThinkQuest
site on collaborative writing The World’s
First Collaborative Sentence – go ahead, add to it… The Word Detective – Articles on
the history of specific English words by Evan Morris. He also answers
word-related questions… Logophilia – “The Word Spy” a
site to keep track of new words in English Gameroom at
yourdictionary.com Linguistic
Phenomena/Devices – names for less commonly-known language phenomena and
rhetorical devices A collection of word
oddities and word trivia Verbivore organizations
– a list of organizations for the “unrepentant verbivore” |
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How to say ridiculous things in hundreds of languages… Animal sounds
in the world’s languages “Work It!” – How to
conjugate the verb “to work” in several different languages Just “COW” – How to say
“cow” in 539 different languages Jaberwocky – Translations
and parodies of the poem into various languages Jennifer’s language page –
How to say several phrases in lots of languages Sköldpaddan kommer med
vete i gryningen!!! – Multiple ways to say “The turtle brings wheat at
dawn”
The poison oak and ivy
translation project – How to say “Leaves of three, leave them be” in numerous
languages What is your name?
in many languages (the question, not your actual name “Gillian
Anderson is Beautiful” in 42 different languages and dialects (well…if
you agree with their classification of Klingon, Cantonese and Mandarin as
“dialects”) How to say “ouch” in different
languages (yes, it varies) – contains sound files recording pain suffered by
speakers of different languages
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Bad pick-up lines for
linguists Reflections on OT (includes an
analysis on why “tableau” is more optimal than “table”) How to make a
linguistic theory from John Lawler’s pages Are you a linguist?
– take this quiz to find out Suggested
Minimal Requirements for Advanced Study in Linguistics by Alexander Gross Totally Twisted
Grammar – “Humor, bizarreness, and oddities of language” from Michael
Permberton’s Descriptive English Grammar course at the University of Illinois The
Linguistics Fun page
from ojohaven Linguist jokes – from
Profession Jokes collection, jokes about linguists and jokes linguists might
enjoy |
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Noam Chomsky: A
Life of Dissent (electronic edition) by Robert F. Barsky An
article by Chomsky – excerpt
from Language and Mind from the marxist.org philosophy archive Naomi Chase
interviews Noam Chomsky about linguistics The Chomsky Archive mostly political,
from zmag.org The
linguistics
section of http://monkeyfist.com/ChomskyArchive,
a supplement to the zmag.org archive The Genius of Chomsky site – short discussion of
linguistics – photos of Chomsky OK,
so here’s his homepage A
slide presentation about Chomsky from a course at the Translation, Theory and
Technology website About Noam Chomsky – a collection
of articles and links, including linguistics Noam Chomsky resources
from the eJournal Critical Thinkers Resources The Political Economy of
Noam Chomsky from a short course taught by Larry Mosquedaat The Evergreen
State College The
Comsky pages from the Anarchist
Archive A celebration of Chomsky –
essays in linguistics and cognitive science written for his 70th
birthday Could
Chomsky be wrong? – an overview of alternatives to generative linguistics A list of
anti-generative-grammar links Chomsky’s misunderstanding of human thinking by Yehouda Harpaz |
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American Association for Handwriting
Analysis – “an avenue for self-awareness and for vocational, marriage,
and personnel counseling.” A guided tour of NLP – “Just imagine what you
would do if your bread machine arrived without instructions. Entry
on NLP from The Skeptic’s Dictionary (and a
readers response) |
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The Visual Thesaurus from
Plumb Design – a very cool site that animates the semantic relationships
between words International Collection
of Tongue Twisters Kanji for tattoos
from about.com Ralph Blights course on Language, mythology and
the vampire legend from UT Austin Shoecabbages
– Demonstrating the arbitrariness of the sign Language
activities – fun sites about language and other linguistics links Ladle
Rat Rotten Hut – “Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner
ladle cordage, honor itch offer lodge, dock, florist.” demonstrates the
importance of context for word recognition… Collection
of interesting sounds from the
Acoustical Society of America Presidential Syntax and
Morphology – keeping track of the president’s speech errors Words and Images
Portrait of Language artwork about language by Elly Sherman |