tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post6431941503637511637..comments2024-03-23T01:31:13.502+01:00Comments on Jabal al-Lughat: Good speaking is not good writingLameen Souag الأمين سواقhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-2724231081075288002018-04-11T12:23:00.676+02:002018-04-11T12:23:00.676+02:00David: Yes, it is a bad transcript - he was defini...David: Yes, it is a bad transcript - he was definitely trying to stack the scales there...<br /><br />Abraham: Thank you!Lameen Souag الأمين سواقhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-48216004465064378552018-04-10T20:34:01.406+02:002018-04-10T20:34:01.406+02:00Lameen, I just wanted to express my hearty admirat...Lameen, I just wanted to express my hearty admiration for your work. I’m no linguist, but I am taking an MSA course and I ran across your excellent post and comments on the size of the Arabic vocabulary from 2013. Impressed, I looked through a few other articles and enjoyed them just as thoroughly. I only wish every academic could write as succinctly and simply as you do. Keep up the good work. With any luck, you’ll be part of the movement which challenges Peterson and others for reach in the non-academic world.<br /><br />Abe Collier<br /><br />PS I share your dislike for Taleb. Good to hear that I’m not the only one who finds him insufferable.Abrahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05103584499857333408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-6924327634748317122018-03-19T12:02:38.030+01:002018-03-19T12:02:38.030+01:00Oh, that's the lobster guy. *biologist eye(sta...Oh, that's the lobster guy. *biologist eye(stalk) roll*<br /><br />I have no training as a descriptive linguist, read the whole thing, and was surprised it was already over. :-) It <b>is</b> a bit hard to read, with lots of roadbumps where I have to pause and parse again, because <b>it's a bad transcript!</b> Look at it – there's not a single dash in the whole thing! I'd have sprinkled a load of commas over it, too. In spoken language, most of the guides to parsing are in the intonation, so the intonation has to be transcribed in some way if a verbatim transcript (complete with false starts and all) is supposed to be understandable.David Marjanovićnoreply@blogger.com