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jobskeffington: Ernest Hemingway, center, photographed for the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:35:59 -0400

jobskeffington:

Ernest Hemingway, center, photographed for the Oak Park High School football team, November 1915

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Wed, 22 May 2013 10:13:14 -0400

vintageanchorbooks: “Naturally you’re out of book space....

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:41:27 -0400

vintageanchorbooks:

“Naturally you’re out of book space. Everyone is always out of book space. If you’re not out of book space, you’re probably not worth knowing.”

ferrisie: allthingslinguistic: Morphological Typology...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:58:33 -0400

ferrisie:

allthingslinguistic:

Morphological Typology (illustrations from SpecGram)

Descriptions adapted from The Lingua File:

Analytic languages: also known as isolating languages because they’re composed of isolated, or free, morphemes. Free morphemes can be words on their own, such as cat or happy. Languages that are purely analytic in structure don’t use any prefixes or suffixes, ever. However, it’s rare to find a language that is purely analytic or synthetic since most languages have characteristics of both. Morphological typology is like a spectrum in which languages fit in somewhere from analytic to polysynthetic (a subtype of synthetic languages we’ll get to in a moment).

Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese are good examples of analytic languages. […] English, on the other hand, is one of the most analytic Indo-European languages, but is still usually classified as a synthetic language. […]

Types of synthetic language (i.e. languages that have prefixes/suffixes):

Agglutinating Languages:With these languages, morphemes within words are usually clearly recognizable in a way that makes it easy to tell where the morpheme boundaries are. Their affixes usually only have a single meaning. Turkish,Korean, Hungarian, Japanese, and Finnish are all in this group.

Fusional Languages: Similar to agglutinating languages, except that the morpheme boundaries are much more difficult to discern. Affixes are often fused with the stems, and can have multiple meanings. A prime example of a fusional language is Spanish, especially when it comes to verbs. In the wordhablo ”I speak”, the -o morpheme tells us that we’re dealing with a subject that is singular, first person, and in the present tense. It’s difficult to find a morpheme that means “speak”, however, since habl- is not a morpheme. Fusional languages can be tricky!

Polysynthetic Languages: These languages are undoubtedly some of the most difficult to learn. They often have verbs that can express the entirety of a typical sentence in English, which they do by incorporating nouns into verbs forms. For example, the Sora language of India has one word that means “I will catch a tiger”. Many Native American languages are polysynthetic.

This FASCINATES me.

russellcrowaii: One Day More (8-bit) - Les Misérables A thank...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:03:45 -0400

russellcrowaii:

One Day More (8-bit) - Les Misérables

A thank you for all the support! (´∀｀)♡ As always, this sounds best when listened to with headphones.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 15:36:28 -0400

grrrenadine: ta da

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:02:25 -0400

grrrenadine:

ta da

reducedfatcheezits: song of the day: iggy azalea’s bounce from...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:11 -0400

reducedfatcheezits:

song of the day: iggy azalea’s bounce from her upcoming release “the new classic”. what to do on a rainy sunday? throw a dance party of course. this is my latest obsession.

odellian: velvet ► a compilation of smooth and soft tracks for...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:52:16 -0400

odellian:

velvet ► a compilation of smooth and soft tracks for when you’re in the mood of listening to velvet-like voices. {listen} {download}

tracklist: each coming night - iron and wine, to be alone with you - sufjan stevens, blackberry stone - laura marling, what you want - birdy, lonely - the middle east, bella - angus and julia stone, velvet - lykke li, for emma - bon iver, all the little lights - passenger, slow pony home - the weepies, we found each other in the dark - city and colour, amsterdam - daughter, middle cyclone - neko case, all i want - kodaline, the fold - ivan and alyosha, follow you down to the red oak tree - james vincent mcmorrow

+ photo-cred
+ for savs

discovers: LOL agreed

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:37 -0400

discovers:

LOL agreed

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Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:31 -0400

Midnight cameras and cookies. (at Charles St.)

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:50:42 -0400

Midnight cameras and cookies. (at Charles St.)

rootsnbluesfestival: Aretha Franklin You’re All I Need To Get...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:40:38 -0400

rootsnbluesfestival:

Aretha Franklin

You’re All I Need To Get By

Live @ Fillmore West (San Francisco, CA) Mar 6, 1971

Seniors with nothing to lose send the best texts. I am dying.

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:14 -0400

Seniors with nothing to lose send the best texts. I am dying.

laughingsquid: Chemistry Dubstep, Music Video Created Using...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:34:30 -0400

laughingsquid:

Chemistry Dubstep, Music Video Created Using Scientific Experiments

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Mon, 20 May 2013 13:57:15 -0400

at Brandeis LTS Help Desk

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:56 -0400

at Brandeis LTS Help Desk

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