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Via languagefixation, I stumbed across this bit at HTLAL from Iverson of Iverson list fame:Reading something in a language where you have to look up several words in each sentence feels frustrating, and doing something that makes you feel frustrated...
The other day, Street Smart Language Learning was writing about serial language learning and its temptations. As he puts it:As you progress farther and farther into the language, finding those discrete units that you don't already know takes more and...
A few odds and ends on where words come from:
Let's take a look at an Indo-European root, *(s)tego-. It means "to cover." Here are some derivatives:
> *tog > Germanic *thakjan, which gives us thatch, as in a thatch roof.
>*tog-a > you guessed it,...
This weekend, I took a look at the Sanskrit lessons at Early Indo-European Online. It's a funny thing: these languages can be so old, and yet with a lot still unsettled. As an aside, I've been hanging around a forum for Gaulish where much is yet...
The other day, I wrote: For at least fifteen years now, I've taken an interest in the Indo-European family and the relationship between older languages. Sometimes, this is just for curiosity's sake. Sometimes, it helps me better understand modern...
