Yonder Lies It

Kategori: Metalinguistics

  • retazos mentales

    Find myself thinking about human relations today. Not because I hate the xmas season, which I do. But because solitude seems to glue some aspects of society in some pretty weird ways. Take for example a man I saw today while I had to wait for my departure train to arrive on its tracks. This…

  • Competing languages

    I feel comfortable to say am a trilingual. Having said that I can proceed with a phenomenon that I have experienced as a trilingual, newly at that if one wills. I get stuck at times. Allow me to expand. I suppose imagery ought to come handy in these sort of explanations. Imagine three people trying…

  • Mirabile dictu

    Dí­as extraños. 1.- El otro dí­a me dí­ cuenta que en mis sueños querí­a corregirme de un error que me vi cometer. O sea, Me observaba en mis sueños. Un sueño lúcido. Tengo por costumbre agregarle miel a shampoo. En mi sueño, dentro de una conversación, le agregaba al shampoo otro producto que me pareció…

  • Competing personas of a trilingual

    Here in the Swedish Highlands I speak Swedish to those few I speak to. Don’t get me wrong, there is the occasional Spanish speaker to whom one is lucky to exchange a few inborn lingo with in that tongue of yore. For the most part the operative language in my daily affairs tends to be…

  • Espanglish & Spanglish

    This post was originally posted March the 3rd of 2005. But in order to celebrate the fact Espanglish has made into the DRAE we reprint it again with some slight modifications in orthography that I missed back then. One must be careful about las variantes de Spanglish que hay. There is lo que I call…

  • Constraints

    I tend to adopt an attitude towards language that it’s nearly pristine in its stipulations since I exact a nativists view on language that cannot possibly meet the standards I want. That is, I want what it is said in L1 to be exactly the same as in L2. An impossibility by all means. Yet…

  • Lillgammal

    En Suecia están obsesionados con el comportamiento, todos están prestos a juzgar y otros detalles al primer indició de una desviación social. Quieren a toda costa que todo sea uniforme y de alguna manera la gran mayorí­a vive la  ilusión de que todo está uniforme o ecuánime. Me imagino que se despiertan con el equilibrio…

  • Anomalies

    Anomalies are those things that do not just veer off into the unknown causing major friction in chartered and metered courses. They are in and by their own right natural occurrences that sometimes allow us to change course or make us stop right in our tracks. One of these phenomenas in language learning is the…

  • quasimodo

    I need a new keyboard. Not alien like the one before me. Of course, you can’t see my keyboard but really, proof here is a minor bureaucratic shuffle of papers. I really need a new keyboard. But perhaps most importantly I need a new way to express myself in English. There are ways unknown to…

  • Schism Lingua

    No entiendo por qué es que mis giros lingíüí­sticos en sueco suenan gramaticalmente bien para mí­, siendo que son un obvio error para el nativo del sueco. ¿Qué es lo que ignoro, qué es lo que sacrifico y cómo es que logro burlarme a mí­ mismo? La verdad, no deberí­a de ser un gran problema…