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Neaates
Neaate Cycladic figurine found in Poblenou Beach, 29th January 2010 Neaates are religious amulets of the Cycladic culture, developed in the islands of the Aegean Sea in 3300 - 2000 BC. Unlike Cycladic idols, they are believed not to be associated with...
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La Iliada: ¿colera o discordia?
"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos." Kerry Thornley La Iliada : ¿cólera del pélida o esnobismo original? “Canta, oh diosa, la cólera del pélida Aquiles; cólera funesta que causó infinitos males a los aqueos y precipitó al...
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Blogart
“Soy Gar, mi pueblo fue arrasado por las hordas Yules. He jurado venganza, y voy a vengarme” El señor de las bestias BLOGART What is blogging all about? Is it a kind of communication? Is it a sharing of personal obsessions and personal feelings protected...
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WANTED
WANTED - Se busca - Es recerca - Nous recherchons - cerciamo Your contribution to this blog can save souls! 1. Linguistic amateur needed for ELFIC LESSONS For organising blog-monitored courses of elfic, the language of the elves. The candidate must be...
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Private investgations
LingDetective: private investigations LingDetectve accepts all cases concerning linguistic doubts. Note this site would NOT provide advices about prescriptive uses. Instead, we'll discuss such subjects as: - Diachronic interpretations - Synchronic description...
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coPrOESIA COMPrUostiTuACIONAL
coPrOESIA COMPrUostiTuACIONAL poesía computacional y ordenadores (o programadores) torpes ¿Qué sucede cuando se pone a los ordenadores a escribir poesía? Pues parece que no tienen respeto de nada... Estos son los resultados de un "generador de poemas":...
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Artificial Languages
Dildano: Our rendezvous point will be at 1600 hours. And our password will be… "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch". Barbarella: You mean, the secret "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"? Dildano: Exactly....
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Language Bestiary
Language bestiary What is a language-monster? A languinid? Maybe an underdeveloped language: the idea of a pseudo-language or a particular development due to extreme conditions. Science fiction provides some exemples. 1. Funes el Memorioso’s language:...
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Dictionary of Perversions
- “Well, I'll come back with you if you like, but like, I'm not promising anything, you know.” - “Do you find that this approach usually works? Or let me guess, you've never tried it before. In fact, you don't normally approach girls - am I right? The...
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Lucrecio - traditteme!
"Si eliminamos lo improbable, lo que nos quede, por imposible que parezca, será la solución". Spock, citando a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Aquí os propongo un juego de raducciones: El fragmento de la derecha pertence a "De Rerum Natura", de Lucrecio. Está...
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The best contemporary fiction
I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the fucking low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the...
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Classical Carnage
Classical Carnage Gracias a GRA, un pequeñito generador lingüístico que cayó casualmente entre mis manos, he conseguido unos cuantos experimentos lúdicos… He analizado sintácticamente todo un poema, y he asignado a cada palabra una categoría susceptible...
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Antonimario de besos
”Who are you who slips into my body and wishes to my ghost?” Ghost in the shell Antonimario de besos Ícaro Para albergar al monstruoso vástago real Ícaro y Dédalo construyeron Un laberinto con palabras. Luego, de besos se hicieron alas Y volaron sobre...
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Noyuboshi Araki
Noyuboshi Araki For the lucky people who have the opportunity of going to La Fábrica, this museum of modern art in Madrid, I would be dead jealous to know, and would definitely recommend the exposition of Noyuboshi Araki, an amazing Japanese photographer....
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Physics R important
“Computer, compute to the last digit the value of pi.” Spock The creation of i, or the model’s flaw What would we do without physics? The Earth would turn upside down, and everything around us would suddenly go upwards and be lost in the Universe… Or...
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Nature of this Blog
“A Elbereth Gilthoniel, silivren penna míriel, o menel aglar elenath, Giltoniel A Elbereth" Galadriel The purpose of this blog Thanks for the comments; Yes, this blog is quite egotic, as I am. When I surf and I see interesting things I’m often frustrated...
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Teoblogía lingüística
"Por lo que veo el hermano muerto era zurdo. -Efectivamente señor, él era invertido en muchos aspectos." El nombre de la Rosa Teoblogía lingüístiqva : El mundo de HPSG y mi Ego privado donde se habla pseudocientífica mente del ambiente regnante en aqueste...
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Paris canibal
Désirdetoi Cettenuitjerêveraidetesseins,detesseinsdiscrètesetsuccu lentes. Lanuitmesusurreàl?oreilleteslèvres;elletevole,jus qu'àmoi Mesmainss'envolentpourserrertesjoues;mesdoigtscherchent toncou assisesurmoi,tonregardmélancoliquem'inviteàsauter dansl'eau...
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Metamorphosis
"For he who live more lives than one More deaths than one must die." Oscar Wilde Diálogo: Al principio nos divertíamos; después empezaste a querer evitarme. Esta noche seremos tres, como cada vez, y me echaras en cara que no duerma y que te estorbe mientras...
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Modelo Cognitivo Computacional
¿LINGÜÍSTICA COGNITIVA O LINGÜÍSTICA COMPUTACIONAL? Diferencias entre modelos lingüísticos cognitivos y computacionales INTRODUCCIÓN Los modelos cognitivos sobre el aprendizaje del lenguaje parten de la idea de que el aprendizaje de la lengua es un proceso...
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Mi idea de la lengua
"The First Rule of Project Mayhem is you do not ask questions. The Second Rule of Project Mayhem is you do not ask questions. The Third Rule of Project Mayhem is that in Project Mayhem there are no excuses. The Fourth Rule of Project Mayhem is that you...
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What is a language?
What's a language? What do you think? Ok, I've got it; that's not a very pedagogical way of beginning. Let's say we're comparing language with other things (I mean, objects), and explaining in which way they would be alike. Some researchers say linguistics...
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Diccionario de neoblogismos
DICCIONARIO EPIDÉMICO DE NEOBLOGISMOS ARTICLE IN SPANISH ARTÍCULO EN ESPAÑOL ARTICLE EN ESPAGNOL What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection...
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Voynich
«A veces la verdad no importa como debiera... pero siempre debes decirla...» Hartigan, Sin City The Voynich Manuscript The Voynich Manuscript Imagine you find a manuscript written in an unseen alphabet, and hence unknown language, depicting mysterious...
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666
¿Por qué conocemos al diablo por la cifra 666? San Juan, en su Apocalipsis (Libro de la Revelación), se refiere a él con esta cifra. Resulta curioso encontrar en el Antiguo Testamento tal vez el único nombre propio que es igualmente una cifra. Curiosamente...