If You Could See Your Whole Life From Start To Finish, Would You Change Things?

We’re so bounded by time, by its order. But now I am not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings.

ARRIVAL 2016 – Denis Villeneuve

Why speak a language well if you can speak four badly???

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Table of English loanwords in Malay and Dutch loanwords In Indonesian

Topic day #246: Loanwords VII

Reading Middle English Texts feel like:

“Now, that’s a proper introduction.”

I hear your argument that I shouldn’t learn 5 languages at the same time however...I’m going to ignore it.

Linguistics Blogs I love:

@linguisticalities

@lingthusiasm

@drlinguo

@yvanspijk

@sociolinguo

@superlinguo

you get it...

The basic pleasure in the phonetic elements of a language and in the style of their patterns, and then in a higher dimension, pleasure in the association of these word-forms with meanings, is of fundamental importance. This pleasure is quite distinct from the practical knowledge of a language, and not the same as an analytic understanding of its structure. It is simpler, deeper-rooted, and yet more immediate than the enjoyment of literature. Though it may be allied to some of the elements in the appreciation of verse, it does not need any poets, other than the nameless artists who composed the language. It can be strongly felt in the simple contemplation of a vocabulary, or even in a string of names.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays