Archive for January, 2016

Bad native speakers and poor writers

January 20, 2016

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This picture was taken during a seminar on theoretical semantics at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences 15 January, 2016. http://iitp.ru/ru/science/seminars/369.htm.

The slide reads “Bad profiles of native speakers”. Sorry, not exactly that – “Profiles of bad native speakers”. If you want to know how they are defined, you can look at the presentation at

www.academia.edu/20368022/Defining_Statives_in_Russian

Disclaimer: the guy in front of the screen is not just a bad and nasty native speaker but also a poor writer and speaker.

Happy New Year 2016

January 10, 2016

Happy New Year

 

Happy New Year 2016! Bon appetit! You are the meal.