Crimean Tatar Introduction
Crimean Tatar Introduction By Naoki Watanabe Crimean Tatars are a Sunni Muslim and Turkic ethnicity indigenous to Crimea and actively trying to reassert their culture there. The people are often called “Tatar” and this leads to confusion with the actual ethnic group known as the Tatars (or Volga Tatars), who live in Tatarstan, and while […]
The history of “ch” in English
The sound “ch” in English has an interesting history. Original the sound was a “k” in Proto Germanic. The sound became palatilised in some words, which means that the sound is pronounced with tongue raised against the hard palate. This can often happen so a series of sounds are easier to say, such as “did […]
Why Song Translations Usually Suck
Bran Stark meets the Three-Eyed Raven in Proto Indo European
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNx98jpl7Bo
Eminem – Lose Yourself in ASL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoVDZJqTmRo
How English would look if each accent had its own orthography
There are a huge range of English accents. It can take a while to adjust to another accent, but our brains do it relatively quickly. If we all wrote in IPA though, things would be a lot harder. We would have to sound it out and that might still not help us understand it. Our […]
