Who does it better: Riccardo, Marine, or the Celts themselves? ???
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Paul Valéry’s musings
“You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates anyContinue reading “Paul Valéry’s musings”
Healthy Hunza • #perspectives
Pakistan’s Hunza Valley, along with other valley of Gilgit-Baltistan, is home to the Burusho tribe, speakers of the Language of Longevity with the neurological perk of enhancing longevity by encouraging healthy lifestyle and cognitive habits. The Burushaski language has been generally classified as a language isolate. Their origins are unknown, but it is claimed thatContinue reading “Healthy Hunza • #perspectives”
Algism. Straight-up.
Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960), author of the Handbook of the Indians of California (1925), was an American cultural anthropologist who actually cut his teeth with the Arapaho, basing his 28-page PhD dissertation on decorative symbolism on his field work among the Arapaho, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. There was a reason Kroeber,Continue reading “Algism. Straight-up.”
Whose is Crimea really?
The Gutnish way is around about – yet so very on the mark
More on North Germanic languages: Example of Modern Gutnish (‘The Garden of Love’ by William Blake: KERLAIKINS SKAVLGARDIak gikk til kerlaikins skavlgardOk sag hvat iak aldri haddi seitA kýrko var der byggdDer iak fýrr laikti pa de grýnuOk lukur til hissu kýrku varu lukteOk ”Dú skalt ikki”, ritet yvar duriSo iak vendi mik til kerlaikinsContinue reading “The Gutnish way is around about – yet so very on the mark”
Danish vibes
Danish / dansk / [ˈdanˀsɡ] 🇩🇰 is a North Germanic language. Another North Germanic language is Icelandic: Read The treasured case system of Icelandic &/or Ah, Iceland (good vibes!) It is spoken -mainly- in Denmark / Danmark, by upwards of 5 million. There are also a few thousand Danish speakers in Greenland / Grønland, controlledContinue reading “Danish vibes”
A nix, sheathed in sparks 🪄
VALÉRY
Un homme si passionnant avec ses philosophies extraordinaires et son esprit effervescent. Je vous conseille de lire ses poèmes et d’explorer ses idées philosophiques parce qu’il fournit beaucoup d’illumination sur le monde modernisé. Un homme si astucieux qui a prévu nos perspectives et problèmes d’aujourd’hui. Il savait que la société occidentale souffrirait de ces troublesContinue reading “VALÉRY”
Neurolinguistia
Neurolinguistics, the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system, is one of the world’s absolute most important fields of study, but it doesn’t receive enough attention. Much of the terrain of beautiful Neurolinguistia remains uncharted. Why is this? Too abstract? Esoteric? Dry? It’s anContinue reading “Neurolinguistia”