http://www.petebevin.com/archives/2006/07/22/buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo.html My brain is on fire!
Tag Archives: Linguistics
How bilingual brains switch between tongues – life – 09 June 2006 – New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9304-how-bilingual-brains-switch-between-tongues.html Yet another interesting Stumble from Nutmeg: The next time you listen to the Beatles sing “Michelle” you can thank an area of your brain called the left caudate. It could be what enables you to follow the lyrics as they switch from English to French, claim researchers at University College London in the UK. […]
Sloganizer.net – Instant slogans with our slogan generator.
http://www.sloganizer.net/en/ I’m late to the Sloganizer party, but evidently it’s been waiting for me: Eireann – The Revolution
Kentucky Classics
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html A list of rhetorical devices and tricks with examples *blissfully geeking out*: “Aposiopesis: a form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion (fear, excitement, etc.) or modesty.”
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=samizdat&x=21&y=16 Word of the Moment: Samizdat, n. 1. publishing house 2. a system in the U.S.S.R. and countries within its orbit by which government-suppressed literature was clandestinely printed and distributed; also : such literature Etymology: Russian, from sam- self- izdatel’stvo
Wordorigins.org
http://www.wordorigins.org/ Etymology is awesome!
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http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/ A cause I can get behind! I wonder if they take donations?
Etymologic: the toughest etymology (word origin) game on the Web
http://www.etymologic.com/ 9 out of 10, baby! (though it took me three tries at 7! )