<![CDATA[Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey]]> http://www.bisso.com/ujg/ Linguistics, philosophy, and politics. en-us 2007-05-18T12:11:47-08:00 back to bloggin' http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000555.html OK. I've decided to fire up the blog again under a new name: epea pteroenta. I've switched over to Blogger... bloggish jim 2007-05-18T12:11:47-08:00 the story so far http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000554.html Well, it has been a long strange trip, but back around last December, I lost the will to blog. No,... bloggish jim 2006-04-02T16:10:10-08:00 tsk tsk http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000553.html linguistics jim 2005-12-15T08:07:17-08:00 dzshordzsh der naygeriker http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000552.html linguistics jim 2005-12-11T10:09:26-08:00 yogh is too there http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000551.html linguistics jim 2005-12-08T07:15:57-08:00 there is no yogh in unicode http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000550.html 1. Ian sent me an email this morning with a URL pointing at the Merchandising of Vincent Gallo website. Artwork... bloggish jim 2005-12-07T15:41:10-08:00 turkey daze http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000549.html bloggish jim 2005-11-24T10:53:43-08:00 faux amis http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000548.html I recently came across an interesting site called False Friends of the Slavicist. It lists words in 15 different Slavic... linguistics jim 2005-11-12T07:32:18-08:00 hollow heart http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000547.html My friend, Philip Gelb, (shakuhachi player and teacher and vegetarian chef) sent me an email saying how he is looking... bloggish jim 2005-10-23T08:13:35-08:00 social beings http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000546.html A new, Victorian, prescriptivist English grammar has arrived from a bookseller in Canada: The severe Roman bestowed upon the language... jim 2005-10-19T14:45:08-08:00 foolish and intolerable http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000545.html Alfred Ayres, The Verbalist, 1895, p.109: Jeopardize. This is a modern word which we could easily do without, as it... linguistics jim 2005-10-05T11:27:30-08:00 the house is building 2 http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000544.html Thanks to reader ACW for pointing me at a discussion of the progressive passive in the OED. The entry for... linguistics jim 2005-10-04T05:22:29-08:00 the house is building http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000543.html linguistics jim 2005-10-03T07:29:03-08:00 only forced ambiguity http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000542.html H. W. Fowler, at his best, on the placement of only: only, adv.: its placing and misplacing. I read the... linguistics jim 2005-09-25T09:25:11-08:00 aux murs gris http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000541.html bloggish jim 2005-09-24T18:00:04-08:00