There are 5 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1a. Re: 2012 Cambridge journal articles free online for a few days
From: Eric Christopherson
2a. Re: THEORY: Bilinguals Find It Easier to Learn a Third Language
From: Leonardo Castro
3a. OT: Kindles (was: Re: OT: Middle Egyptian dictionary/grammar in Russ
From: And Rosta
4a. OT question for Portuguese speaker(s)
From: Roger Mills
4b. Re: OT question for Portuguese speaker(s)
From: Daniel Germano
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1a. Re: 2012 Cambridge journal articles free online for a few days
Posted by: "Eric Christopherson" [email protected]
Date: Sun Mar 3, 2013 8:58 am ((PST))
On Mar 3, 2013, at 4:13 AM, MorphemeAddict wrote:
> I tried to register but got an unexplained "error occurred" message.
Ah, I got that too. Most annoying. I was able to proceed by clicking the second
tab above that; I believe it said "register" or something like that.
>
> stevo
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> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Eric Christopherson <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> I'm *terribly* sorry I've forgotten to post this until now -- it's only
>> good until March 5, which I assume is to be interpreted as in GMT -- but
>> Cambridge Journals is offering free unlimited access to its 2012 journal
>> content.
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>> http://cup.linguistlist.org/2013/01/free-access-to-all-2012-content-on-cambridge-journals-online/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-access-to-all-2012-content-on-cambridge-journals-online
>>
>> (Talk about waiting until the last minute. Of course, now that I've
>> posted, I'll probably wait another couple of days before actually scouring
>> the articles myself.)
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2a. Re: THEORY: Bilinguals Find It Easier to Learn a Third Language
Posted by: "Leonardo Castro" [email protected]
Date: Sun Mar 3, 2013 9:59 am ((PST))
2013/3/2 MorphemeAddict <[email protected]>:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Jeffrey Daniel Rollin-Jones <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> It probably also depends on what languages you learn.
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>
> I think not as much as you might expect. Any second language, even one very
> similar to your L1, is still a different language with its own
> peculiarities, and learning it will facilitate learning even a radically
> different language.
>
> stevo
So, this could be extended to speaking other dialects of your L1 as well.
BTW, in regard to the claim that "adults will never speak a second
language as a native", it's interesting to consider that many natives
will never speak "as natives" either. I mean, some people from a
language dialectal zone just _can't_ speak like the natives of other
places.
I think that the best way for me to speak English as a native is to
found a community of Brazilian English speakers and to claim that we
speak Brazilian English as natives.
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3a. OT: Kindles (was: Re: OT: Middle Egyptian dictionary/grammar in Russ
Posted by: "And Rosta" [email protected]
Date: Sun Mar 3, 2013 10:25 am ((PST))
A. da Mek, On 01/03/2013 08:34:
> I am not sure how it is in other parts of the universe and
> multiverse, but here an average sized book costs about 30 Ermines*)
> and a Kindle costs about 250 Ermines; so for everyone who intends to
> read more than 8 books in his life it is cheeper to use the e-book.
> In the landscape mode, even the .pdf files are usually readable on
> the 800x600 px screen. I downloaded this Egyptian grammar and
> although the letters are small, they can be read clearly. (I bought
> Kindle when I wanted to read the Assyrinan dictionary
Is it worth having (buying, toting around) a Kindle just as a pdf reader? Pdfs
formatted for standard printed pages remain readable? On the Kindle I've seen,
the text is formatted for a much smaller page size, more like what you'd expect
from A6 or suchlike. My phone has a resolution of 480 x 800, which makes pdfs
viewable only with pain and inconvenience. Are pdfs annotatable and are the
annotations easy to export in a meaningful way (so that one can tell which part
of the text they pertain to)? Is the onscreen keyboard (ABCDE rather than
QWERTY in the pics I've seen) usable without pain?
How do others read and annotate pdfs? Me I skim stuff on the laptop, and for
careful reading and annotation I print them out and write on them with a pen,
and eventually lose many of them in piles of papers.
--And.
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4a. OT question for Portuguese speaker(s)
Posted by: "Roger Mills" [email protected]
Date: Sun Mar 3, 2013 10:54 am ((PST))
In connection with some of my other research-- Span. has _solapa_ 'lapel'
(i.e.edges of a jacket), borrowed into Tagalog. It occurs in some other areas
where the Spanish didn't have much influence, but the Port. did. Does Port.
have a similar word (perhaps old/archaic?)? My little dictionary doesn't have
anything....
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4b. Re: OT question for Portuguese speaker(s)
Posted by: "Daniel Germano" [email protected]
Date: Sun Mar 3, 2013 11:09 am ((PST))
Hi, Roger. We have the word 'lapela' in Portuguese, pretty similar to the
English one.
2013/3/3 Roger Mills <[email protected]>
> In connection with some of my other research-- Span. has _solapa_ 'lapel'
> (i.e.edges of a jacket), borrowed into Tagalog. It occurs in some other
> areas where the Spanish didn't have much influence, but the Port. did.
> Does Port. have a similar word (perhaps old/archaic?)? My little
> dictionary doesn't have anything....
>
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