As I sit down to write this, I can hardly believe it, but just a week and 100 days from now, on November first, I'll be starting my Million Word Year.
Tag: conlang
The Roman Code: the Why of our Letters
It seems as though perhaps, over four thousand years, the chaos of the original Phoenician letters has developed into a linguistic system.
Subordinate Clauses in Gnin El and Sasrâl
Talk about an exciting topic! But how a language encodes the connections between clauses can have far-reaching ramifications. As I explain here, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English have very different assortments of complementizers. How scribes translated them gave rise to a huge variety of interpretations of the New Testament. But I'm sorry to say that I… Continue reading Subordinate Clauses in Gnin El and Sasrâl