Ben Slade, a grad student in linguistics, has started a blog, Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa (linking Old English and Sanskrit words for 'linguistics,' or as close as those languages get to the concept), and it's a gem. His last two posts are about the "likkle law" of Jamaican Creole English and the etymology of khukuri (a traditional Nepalese knife). I look forward to his future investigations.
Posted by languagehat at October 18, 2009 07:49 PMTruly fascinating reading, thanks for the link!
Posted by: Stuart at October 18, 2009 09:10 PMThanks for that! Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa has been added to the RSS reader.
Posted by: Kári Tulinius at October 18, 2009 10:22 PMPour that man a glass of Khukri rum (which actually isn't that bad, for those skeptics who think "best rum distilled in Nepal" is likely to be damning with faint praise).
Posted by: J. W. Brewer at October 18, 2009 10:38 PMThank you, very interesting from the very first entry.
Posted by: Steve Lubman at October 19, 2009 06:06 AMOne to keep an occasional eye on, though I'll give it some time before I consider adding it to my list of language blogs for regular reading.
It does seem, here and there, to assume more linguistic knowledge than I am really comfortable with being assumed. For example, in the very first post with its discussion of "āscodon" vs "āhsodon", there is no explicit summary of the variation between "c" and "h" (not even a link to such a summary). Fleshing out such details a bit more would be an improvement.
Posted by: Adrian Morgan at October 21, 2009 12:00 AM