tags: Tagalog
2002
February
- 2002 Feb 26
- For Want of a Filipino Restaurant
Activism in all shapes and forms. Remembering history is definitely one of them.
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2006
December
- 2006 Dec 15
- it’s the same
Greg of Futility Closet writes about sentences composed entirely of one word. I think these are rather arcane, though. My favorite is Tagalog, where an entire conversation can be composed entirely by one syllable, and it’s something that has more common usage:
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2007
October
- 2007 Oct 7
- infixation
Neil Gaiman brings up the linguistic phenomenon of infixation, which is extremely rare in English, but is part and parcel of Austronesian languages.
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2008
December
- 2008 Dec 13
- the violence of translation
A copy of a copy of a copy…
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2016
April
- 2016 Apr 14
- Kilig
Another Tagalog word makes it into the OED!
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