Archive for the ‘Showdowns’ Category

I am as smart as an 8th grader.

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Neogrammarians versus Dialectologists: the Ultimate Showdown.

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

I've become very interested in competing models of linguistic change in history, most notably the Neogrammarians and, well, everyone else, most notably dialectologists. The Neogrammarians argued that sound change was regular, and held this view very dogmatically as noted in their slogan ('Sound laws suffer no exceptions'). ...