tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post3869858636899215476..comments2024-01-02T21:52:58.449-05:00Comments on Polyglot Vegetarian: VegetusMMcMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18050858208942064042noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-4917368763368349142009-06-22T09:02:23.387-05:002009-06-22T09:02:23.387-05:00Dear Blogger,
you are nominated for the "Top...Dear Blogger,<br /><br />you are nominated for the "Top 100 Language Blogs 2009" competition. Congratulations! After last year’s success the bab.la language portal and Lexiophiles language blog are hosting this year’s worldwide language blog competition once again. We are confident to surpass more than the 350 blogs which entered the competition in 2008.<br /><br />We have made two major changes to last year:<br /><br />1. Due to the amount of blogs we have created categories.<br />(Language Learning/Language Teaching/Language Technology/<br /> Language Professionals)<br /> You are in category Language Learning<br />2. User voting will count 50% towards final score<br /><br />Voting will start on July 8, leaving you enough time to prepare your readers for the upcoming voting. Voting will close on July 27 and the winners will be announced on July 30.<br /><br />For more information on the 2009 competition and what it is all about visit [http://www.lexiophiles.com/english/top-100-language-blogs-2009-nomination-started]<br />So now you may ask yourself what you can do. Here are some suggestions <br /><br />-Nominations are open until July 6, so feel free to share any blog you like with us<br />-Each blog will have a one-sentence-description for the voting. If you would like a special description to go along with your blog, just send me an email [marc@bab.la]<br /><br />Kind regards,<br />Marc<br />On behalf of the bab.la and Lexiophiles team<br />[http://bab.la]<br />[www.lexiophiles.com]<br /><br /><br />-- <br />Marc Lütten<br /><br />bab.la GmbH | Baumwall 7 | 20459 Hamburg | Germany<br />Phone: +49(0)40-707080950 http://bab.la/<br />Handelsregister AG Hamburg | HRB 101207<br />Geschaftsführer: Dr. Andreas Schroeter, Dr. Thomas Schroeter, Patrick Ueckerbablahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12484901495733520576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-38873297704859062182009-06-21T11:59:15.248-05:002009-06-21T11:59:15.248-05:00I somewhat irrationally resisted breaking that lea...I somewhat irrationally resisted breaking that lead-in into several sentences when composing. I still am to some extent, but I have tried to improve it some.<br /><br />When the collection for the new Chair in Latin was taken up, Kennedy himself contributed £500 (inherited from his son-in-law, I believe), with the stipulation that the chair not be <i>named</i> for him.MMcMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18050858208942064042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-19837030300741300982009-06-21T09:36:21.472-05:002009-06-21T09:36:21.472-05:00And I see that my final question reads ambiguously...And I see that my final question reads ambiguously; I should have added clarificatory stress:<br /><br /><i>Who</i> had refused <i>what</i>?Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-20191979069944127582009-06-21T09:35:09.129-05:002009-06-21T09:35:09.129-05:00Nice to see you posting again, and of course I gre...Nice to see you posting again, and of course I greatly enjoyed your plunge into the origins of the term. I was, however, baffled by the following paragraph:<br /><br /><i>A . E. Housman, who succeeded Mayor as Latin Professor, a chair that was then renamed for Kennedy, who had refused while he was alive, in his 1911 Inaugural Address, after attributing to Kennedy's Sabrinae Corolla (a collection of translations of English poems into Latin and Greek) his “genuine liking for Greek and Latin” (Kennedy became Regius of Greek at Cambridge; in Stoppard's first scene, AEH tells this and has digs at him and Jowett, the Regius of Greek at Oxford; we still used an edition of Kennedy's public school primer in Form I Latin in the late '60s; I imagine they still uses it today) said of Mayor:</i><br /><br />I have tried to disentangle the clauses, but cannot account for "who had refused while he was alive." Who had refused what??Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.com