Category: Linguistics

  • July 8, 2011
    This is too good. You simply must read it. The logical end to linguistic prescriptivism is a strange world. HT:…

  • May 27, 2011
    My post on Puritan names brings up an incidental point. I have heard preachers and laypeople alike trip up many…

  • April 19, 2011
    I can read English, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew, German, and Latin, in that order of fluidity. Truth be known, my German…

  • April 14, 2011
    One of the most popular linguistic and exegetical fallacies in modern times is that the Greek word for love, agapao,…

  • February 9, 2011
    I had an English major for a dad, so vocabulary quizzes were never difficult for me in school. I remember…

  • January 24, 2011
    Don’t blame my parents, but I didn’t know until I was 27 that the two different-sized forks in the silverware…