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Click languages

Posted on Oct 7th, 2007 by Nathan : Jackrabbi Nathan

The Kalahari Bushman tribes have four different clicks that they use as consonants. Other South African tribes employ clicks to lesser degrees. The first consonant in the name of Nelson Mandela's tribe, the Xhosa, is... More »

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Learning languages

Posted on Sep 19th, 2007 by Nathan : Jackrabbi Nathan

About nine years ago in Ann Arbor there was a young Turkish guy in one of my classes. He was about the worst one in there. He had a great attitude. Every time he spoke... More »

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language and memory

Posted on Mar 14th, 2007 by Nathan : Jackrabbi Nathan

slowly these foreign words dance, slowly, like mantises, like clouds, like noh dancers, i nod my head slowly to their quiet music. i hitchhike along the words. do the words know who we are? slowly... More »

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