I’m going through the Laves text in preparation for fieldwork in a month or so. I’m doing preliminary translations and making notes about things I don’t understand. I think I’m about halfway through the texts now, but it’s very uneven. There are a bunch of slightly different dialects represented in the text.
In a text today [...]
The use of the term ‘dead cat’ for things that look like this, or this, on the ILAT list recently spurred me to ask for other examples of the term.
Many thanks to everyone who wrote back.* Do add further terms in the comments.
dead cat
windshield [Aus term]
windscreen [US term]
popshield
spoffle
fur slug (?)
shaggy dog
windsock, wind sock
furball [furry ones [...]
I liked this book, Gang Leader for a Day, a lot. For those of you who haven’t already contributed to it having a sales rank of #360 on Amazon, do read it. Don’t be fooled by the title ‘rogue sociologist’ - Venkatesh is writing pure confessional ethnography, and he’s rather better at it than most.
I [...]
[more in the series of old partial posts with current relevance.. this one edited since it's been pointed out that the original post was rather cryptic.]
I had a bunch of new equipment to take to the field last year:
new earphones (much smaller than my previous travel pair)
SD digi video
Edirol R-09 (used before, but not in [...]
[Continuing my clean-out of partial posts in my livewriter folder...]
Girri’ means ‘clothes’ in Yan-nhaŋu; it also means ’stuff’, as I found out yesterday when we were looking for general terms for the thesaurus. It’s interesting, though, that I’d never come across the context for the more general (and perhaps more focal meaning) during elicitation and [...]
such as Frog, where are you? are categorised as “action and adventure” on Amazon. So true!
I had one of those ‘you’re a linguist, let me ask you some grammar questions’ conversations while I was on fieldwork last year. This one I meant to report at the time but the post got overtaken by ‘events’, but even three months later it’s a good story.
The conversation went something like this. M stands for [...]
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