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Posted by: AnneHart  | 

Sacramento :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago

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 The word for cat sounds the same regardless of the language family--Uralic, Indo European, Hamitic/Nubian, Semitic, Basque, Chinese....they all call it a cat or a puss. How did you pick your cat's name--or your dog's name? Here's the history of...

Tags: cats in many languages, the word, cat, linguistics

Posted by: chucklit8  | 

Buffalo :: NY :: USA | 6 months ago

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By Chuck Richardson Originally posted at http://chuckrichardson.blogspot.com/ Over the next couple months I plan to post parts of this essay in progress to spur conversation and receive feedback. I’ll humbly submit its completed form as my “theory...

Tags: CHAOS, CHARLES LUMSDEN, COGNITION, DEEP ECOLOGY, E.O. WILSON, ELIZABETH WRIGHT, EXISTENTIALISM, LINGUISTICS, QUANTUM PHYSICS, SANTIAGO THEORY, SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY, SUPERORGANISM, TAOISM

Posted by: Punditty  | 

Berkeley :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago

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April 10, 2009 The objective of the Lexicon Injection Project (LIP) is to see how long it takes for the following terms, “exit call” and “entrance call,” to gain widespread usage in the English-speaking world.  The terms below...

Tags: Lexicon Injection Project, LIP, The Punditty Project, suitable for forwarding, telephone call as you are walking out the door, telephone phenomenon, telephonic, phone communications, telephone industry, urban dictionary, communication, landline, cellular phone, cell phones, allvoices.com, citizen journalism, please forward, spread the word, bad timing, in a hurry, hands full, hello, new word, dictionary, linguistics, words

Posted by: Punditty  | 

Berkeley :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago

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Some people didn’t like Bill Clinton’s Arkansas twang, others loved it. Some people recoiled at John F. Kennedy’s Boston accent, others swooned. Some in Cal-ee-forn-uh-ya like to hear Gov. Schwarzenegger say the state’s name, others...

Tags: Palin's accent, Minnesota, politics, polls, Obama, Biden, linguistics

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