http://heliologue.com/2006/08/22/the-language-instinct/ Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. Wed, 23 May 2012 05:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://heliologue.com/2006/08/22/the-language-instinct/#comment-151011 A Modest Construct : The First Word Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:32:30 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2006/08/22/the-language-instinct/#comment-151011 [...] John Man's excellent Alpha Beta. It actually ended up being more like Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, which isn't bad, but merely [...] [...] John Man’s excellent Alpha Beta. It actually ended up being more like Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct, which isn’t bad, but merely [...]

]]> http://heliologue.com/2006/08/22/the-language-instinct/#comment-27493 A Modest Construct » Blog Archive » Wednesday’s Word VII Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:35:07 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2006/08/22/the-language-instinct/#comment-27493 [...] I read this delightful little word in Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct (and later in an H.L. Mencken excerpt) and decided it would be perfect for a Wednesday’s Word. It has a number of meanings, but its literal meaning is the first one, as it was used by the Gileadites to find Ephraimites, for whom the phoneme |š| or |ʃ|[1] was unpronouncable (see Judges 12:4–6). [...] [...] I read this delightful little word in Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct (and later in an H.L. Mencken excerpt) and decided it would be perfect for a Wednesday’s Word. It has a number of meanings, but its literal meaning is the first one, as it was used by the Gileadites to find Ephraimites, for whom the phoneme |š| or |ʃ|[1] was unpronouncable (see Judges 12:4–6). [...]

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