In Soviet Russia…

… consonants palatalize you! How Computers Can Do Fieldwork For You: A Case Study—Chit Fullah I laughed so hard at that. But more relevant parts of the newest issue of the Speculative Grammarian for reader of my blog: How to Do Fieldwork on Proto-Indo-European—Tim Pulju Between these two articles, they’ve almost as good as: The [...]

For a Moment I though this was about ATR’s Grammar…

Finish this Sentence:

The pathetically small llama knitted nervously under the _______________________.

Gems in the Biblical Scholarship

My Google Alerts e-mail for “New Testament Greek” came today and I found these couple Gems: Will you read the original DEAD SEA SCROLLS when they come to the Internet? Two of the comments are: The Dead Sea Scrolls verify that the “New Testament” was originally written in Hebrew, not Greek, as the early “church” [...]

Searches that Found Me

My last name is spelled with a “e” not an “i” – just so you know: mike aubriy But by far this is my very favorite search. things to do when not studying I’ve had it a few times and it makes me laugh every time I see it.

Five Biblical Studies Books that I’m Stupider for Reading

I’m finally picking this up after about two weeks. Rick tagged in this meme (and also Stephen Carlson tagged me in its apparently different, but obnoxiously similar counterpart) And with all the backlash that appeared, I’m going to preface my books with some of Rick’s words in his update to the original post (cutting out [...]

Funny things in ancient literature

Josh over at his new Son of the Fathers blog has tagged me in his meme: A Meme: Funniest things in ancient literature. Well, the funniest thing that I’ve read recently was 1 Samuel 13:13 (discussed here): καὶ εἶπεν Σαμουηλ πρὸς Σαουλ Μεματαίωταί σοι Which comes out relatively close to something like: And Samuel said, ‘That [...]

Photo Dabbling – Biblioblogging or Biblio-Linguistic Blogging?

I wasn’t satisfied with the Biblical Studies Blog picture from the Top 50 Biblioblogs site: So I decided to make my own – in two different incarnations: The first is in just plain old IPA accurately reflecting the pronunciation of “linguistics.” The second is also IPA, but I chose all sorts of characters that don’t [...]

Personal for Generic Pronoun – Hilarious!

Language is Funny:

Linguists are So Brilliant

“This is only indirect support for our hypothesis, since it comes from different languages and a different empirical domain. But it does give some independent evidence that syntactic movement can have different effects on the features involved in agreement in different languages, which is our central theoretical proposal.” Mark C. Baer, Roberto Aranovich, and Lucia [...]