What is Linguistics Good For?

Those of you who are familiar with IPA (and I know your name is Legion) will definitely enjoy this. Those of you who have any sort of familiarity with Russian will probably like it too. The Latest Edition of the Speculative Grammarian.

Ideas

I’m a blank slate for blog post ideas right now. This whole computer dying thing has really got me down and stolen my inspiration.

Recovering

My hard drive failed Monday night, so I’m shipping my laptop to Ontario to be repaired. Anyone want to help recover the 4% or so that I lost. I’m just glad I’m getting better and better at backing things up! In the mean time I’m doing all my work with pen, paper and a lexicon [...]

Successful Automated Parsing

This weekend, I decided to run the automated parser with what little analysis I have – that is productive noun morphology and about a third of the productive adjective morphology – hopefully I’ll have adjectives done today and I can move on to either to pronouns or the huge task of verbs. Anyway, since I [...]

BDAG vs. LSJ & LEH LXX

Every day I grow to appreciate the work of Danker more and more. While Lust, Eynikel, and Hauspie is the only complete Lexicon specifically for the LXX, their glosses are generally pulled directly from LSJ. Most of the time that isn’t a horrible thing, but there are times – especially with rare words – when [...]

Preaching Greek

John Hobbins has pointed us to an interesting discussion about Rob Bell’s use of Greek in the Nooma videos (incidentally, Andy Naselli beat that discussion by a week). I’ve been invited to comment in the post itself, but for some reason my internet is not connecting to the internet on my normal computer. For some [...]

Windows 7

is a beautiful improvement over Vista.

Poor Translations Vs. Poorly Translated Verses

Perhaps instead of talking about poor translations, we should talk about poorly translated verses. When we criticize a translation we don’t criticize the whole thing but rather a bunch of verses that we don’t like. So why don’t we talk like that? The ESV is a bad translation because… The NLT is a bad translation [...]

The Rough Beginnings of Greek Morphology

This is the beginnings of the morphology work I’ve done in Language Explorer. Nouns are for the most part done, though I have some tidying up to do. I’m in the process of analyzing Adjectives & Adverbs derived from Adjectives and after that I’ll be moving to Verbs. The Labels (P I-III) denote the Noun [...]

A Search that Found Me

“the verb porter in the future tense” I just like this one simply because on the one hand, the person might have simply been listing in no particular order what his was looking for a discussion either by or about Stanley Porter. Its more likely though that the searcher was looking for the French verb [...]