Sat, 17 Oct 2009: The Death of Language?

A BBC article looks at language extinction.

Among the ranks are the two known speakers of Lipan Apache alive in the US, four speakers of Totoro in Columbia and the single Bikya speaker in Cameroon.

The question is, …

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Sat, 27 Jun 2009: It’s the Law!

Grammar rules are like laws of nature.  They give an illusion of control.  …

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Sat, 17 Nov 2007: achy breaky grammar

Category: Linguistics

To THAT tune:

"No rotas más mi pobre corazón"

I'm sure that’s what I heard on the radio. But then ?

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