Threatening that English is a threat.
I take issue with this article by Robert Phillipson English as Threat: Reality or Myth. A friend working in international civil development sent it to me. I…
Translation of the opening to Ismail Kadare’s “Chronicle in Stone”
This was a strange city, one that seemed as though it had appeared in the valley out of nowhere, one winter night, like some prehistoric sea…
Bring up the bodies.
Bring up the bodies. Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it? This is the Balkans since the Yugoslav Wars.…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Sacrilege
Oh good GODDAMN is this a powerful music video. The story shifts and mutates with each minute as the music surges forward and the narrative flows…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Sacrilege
Oh good GODDAMN is this a powerful music video. The story shifts and mutates with each minute as the music surges forward and the narrative flows…
Sour grapes: Justin Otten brings to light the corrupt underbelly of Macedonian wine.
Sour grapes: Justin Otten brings to light the corrupt underbelly of Macedonian wine. A good friend from my days studying in Bloomington and Skopje did some…
Ambitious dissertation ambitions!
The central task, and the hugest challenge, of my dissertation will be to show that the “language of the community” in Saussure’s sense and the “language…
Japanese typography and graphic design
Hattori Kazunari Hirano Kouga Both of these are stunning examples of creativity in Japanese typography. In the case of Hattori Kazunari, the radicals, basic semi-meaningful shape patterns…
I’m gonna do psychoanalysis to my theoretical syntax and theoretical syntax to my psychoanalysis.
Weirdest linguistics dissertation? I MAY BE IN THE RUNNING.
Sons and daughters of hungry ghosts.
This video features all of the cool kids I wanted to hang out with but my school didn’t want me to. Because they don’t really do…
Language is Awesome 