urubu

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1. 31.▲
   by urubu 9y ago

   Pliny the Elder was his uncle.
2. 32.▲
   by urubu 9y ago

   It's not a common word. Reading it as normal German you would understand it as "obviousness, plainness, evidentness" (from 'offenbar' = 'obvious, plain to see'; 'openable' would be 'öffenbar
3. 33.▲
   by urubu 10y ago

   This is a directory of available multilingual corpora: http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/
4. 34.▲
   by urubu 10y ago

   Listening to languages I'm vaguely familiar with - I also like the BBC in Persian and Hausa - seems to have become part of my evening routine (I work as a technical translator). I learned Esperanto on a whim in uni in the 80s but haven
5. 35.▲
   by urubu 10y ago

   China Radio International still has daily transmissions on shortwave. I listened to one yesterday night, as it happens.
6. 36.▲
   by urubu 13y ago

   I think you mean Wittgenstein, not Goethe ("Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt" Tractatus logico-philosophicus 5.6).
7. 37.▲
   by urubu 15y ago

   Looks like someone has successfully reinvented Zwicky's morphological box.