tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post288290258183186425..comments2024-03-09T09:19:07.054+01:00Comments on Jabal al-Lughat: 10 years onLameen Souag الأمين سواقhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-41480314450557116132016-02-21T23:34:16.302+01:002016-02-21T23:34:16.302+01:00It s bit late to wish your blog happy anniversary ...It s bit late to wish your blog happy anniversary but better late than never. I have been following your blog for years, not on a regular basis but rather in some sort of binge reading way. After months of busy life, I come back to it when a big event takes place hoping that you will write about it through your linguistics lens and then I cannot to stop as all posts seem to be so interesting.<br /><br />What I find appealing about your blog is the relation you make to the current affair events while sticking to the linguistics angle. <br /><br />Writing about linguistics, like any other academic topic, can be very technical and boring but the difference of Jabal lughat is to use linguistics to better discover, understand and question the world. <br />As for the blogosphere and social networks, I think that a Jabal al-lughat FB, medium page or Twitter account is not a bad idea after all. It can allow you to engage with a wider community about the linguistic discipline and the topics you research. I bet that you may find more songhay, kabyle and Siwi people on FB than on blogger.com. It can also be a way of democratizing this discipline and may be dream that one day it could be acknowledged that it is not less important than physics or drawing. After all one can argue that children at school may be better off understanding some linguistics basics which can help them improve their communication skills rather than learning by heart the world capitals or any other silly info which can now easily be googled :)<br /><br />Till then keep up the good work! <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16868639412098906983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-37987958355372051262016-01-07T10:27:22.693+01:002016-01-07T10:27:22.693+01:00Y, Languagehat: Thank you for your kind comments!
...Y, Languagehat: Thank you for your kind comments!<br /><br />Y: I'll bear that in mind, but you might also want to check out PhoeniX's blog for that: http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/ .Lameen Souag الأمين سواقhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-3323169192754521982016-01-06T15:15:01.015+01:002016-01-06T15:15:01.015+01:00A belated happy blogiversary, and I am in total ag...A belated happy blogiversary, and I am in total agreement about the dissipation of the blogosphere -- while I appreciate the value FB and Twitter provide, I am furious about what they have done to blogs. Some of my favorite blogs have gone silent as their proprietors confine themselves to Facebooking and tweeting. Doesn't it bother anyone that their thoughts simply sink into the seabed instead of staying around for years to inspire conversation? Bah! Anyway, congratulations, and don't you dare start tweeting instead!Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-40781749212199788692016-01-04T04:45:05.128+01:002016-01-04T04:45:05.128+01:00Thank you for your persistence!
As it happens, bl...Thank you for your persistence!<br /><br />As it happens, blogs like yours are one of the only sources for current linguistic research for non-professionals, or for professional linguists in other specialties. Anyone can go to the science section of the news or to any number of popular science periodicals and learn about graphene, or black holes, or bower-birds. There's nothing like that for linguistics. The contact situations in Korandjé and Siwa are fascinating, and I wouldn't have known about them if not through your blog, and I daresay researchers interested in contact but not following the specialist journals may have learned about them here as well. I knew nothing about Berber except that it is AA and has funny phonetics, and knew nothing about Songhay except that it's a language nobody knows how to classify, until I started reading your blog. Carry on, and I hope more specialists will follow your example. Don't worry about the 'blogosphere'.<br /><br />(P.S., I'd love it if you wrote about the historical phonology of Berber. Why do some Berber languages have initial geminates? How unique is Tashlhiyt phonology compared to other Berber languages?)Ynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-19283560380195109362016-01-04T00:22:28.472+01:002016-01-04T00:22:28.472+01:00John: And the end of all our exploring will be to ...John: And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time...<br /><br />PhoeniX: Me too! I'm not sure there's anything we can do to reverse the domination of Twitter and Facebook, but live blogrolls at least help a little to restore that sense of interconnection. I also have the impression that there's more interaction happening on Tumblr, but somehow that platform just seems to have too much of a cutesy emo undergrad vibe to take seriously.<br /><br />Nginarra: Give it another few years and with any luck we'll be retro chic :)Lameen Souag الأمين سواقhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-18844358160771056822016-01-03T21:35:27.856+01:002016-01-03T21:35:27.856+01:00Congrats on the milestone! A nice reflection on wh...Congrats on the milestone! A nice reflection on what the old 'blogosphere' has evolved into. Glad to see you keep on keeping on. Our blogging has gone through its most untrendy phase now. My prediction is that we'll be super cool in about two years time! Haha. :)Greg Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615277580306011754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-22209001493502562302016-01-03T12:29:06.531+01:002016-01-03T12:29:06.531+01:00Congratulations!
I've never quite considered ...Congratulations!<br /><br />I've never quite considered it, but you're absolutely right that the 'blogosphere', which really was a thing when you (and I) started blogging has basically disappeared. I kind of miss that. Any ideas about a format that could make something akin to that reappear?PhoeniXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627425696035152752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-9310954859986563972016-01-01T00:23:22.291+01:002016-01-01T00:23:22.291+01:00Hurrah for the esoteric, eclectic, and sporadic Wo...Hurrah for the esoteric, eclectic, and sporadic World Wide Web! It was, after all, where the Web began: there's nothing wildly popular about CERN.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com