Glossographia: Numeration and Numeracy in Cognition, Language, and Culture
Last month, at the Society for Anthropological Sciences annual meeting in Charleston, SC, I organized a panel of some really interesting material on the broad topic of numeration. I want to take this...
View ArticleGlossographia: An anti-hiatus?
Apparently the English language has a lexical gap – it has no good term for ‘the end of a hiatus’ (‘resumption’ and ‘recommencement’ hardly suffice semantically), but, in any case, my apologies for...
View ArticleGlossographia: Link roundup
Do you speak Scots? If you’re not sure, the text and audio samples at Aye Can will help you decide if you do. This is of particular relevance this year due to the 2011 Scottish Census. Errol Morris,...
View ArticleGlossographia: Pseudo-writing at the zoo
Yesterday I went with my wife and son to the Detroit Zoo, which is a great place to visit if you’re ever in southeast Michigan, and especially on a wonderful warm sunny day like yesterday. Of course,...
View ArticleGlossographia: New blog: The Alien Commuter
I’ve started a new blog, The Alien Commuter. It’s a very different sort of place than this place, focused on my life as a Canadian living in Canada and commuting to work in the United States in the...
View ArticleGlossographia: Shady Characters
In all the hurly-burly of the past couple of months, I completely neglected the birth of a fascinating set of essays in progress at Shady Characters, a new blog by Keith Houston about the history and...
View ArticleGlossographia: Pseudo-writing in the news
I promise I didn’t plan it this way – if I’d known about the article I’d have included it in my post earlier this week – but there’s a good short piece on pseudo-writing in New Kingdom Egypt at Past...
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