Me in Spanish 5 Jun 2010 I just love seeing my ideas in another language, not because I speak or read them (I am Australian. We don’t even speak English well. We’re submonoglots), but because it always looks so much more intelligent in French or, as in this case, Spanish. Eduardo Robredo Zugasti has noticed my summary essay “What is a species?” at his blog La revolución naturalista. I think he likes it. Previously, I have been Frenchified, and Portuguesed (but it no longer exists online). If anyone wants to translate me into Russian, though, this will follow: Humor Species concept
Humor Fine – you have a decent presidential candidate. Now for the VP 4 Jun 200818 Sep 2017 As an Australo-African ape, Snowflake is happy that one command from him was enough to ensure Obama won the Democrat selection. Now he wants you to ensure that John Edwards is the VP. Edwards will bring many votes and some level headedness to the campaign, without the nasty taste in… Read More
Philosophy More on phenomena 9 Jun 201122 Jun 2018 Semifinalist for the 3 Quarks Daily Philosophy Prize 2011 In my last post, I asked whether there was a foundation for my view that species are extra-theoretical phenomena. I have done some further reading, especially Michela Massimi’s book Kant and Philosophy of Science Today, which I will have to buy…. Read More
Humor Teh LOLCat Bible 4 Oct 2007 LOLCats are one of those things you either hate or hate really really a lot. But the idea of translating the entire Bible into LOLCatese? Priceless. Someone has way too much spare time (and will we see battles fought over the Auterised Bibel translation versus the VulgarCat version? I hope… Read More
“Submonoglots”? Speak (or not) for yourself! I suppose it must be fun to “see” yourself in another language though, but can you trust your translators not to wreck your deathless prose? On the photo, the worst moment in that film was when Archie Leach said Italian was an ugly language. Appalling….though I have to admit Russian sounds good too.
I think you mean “hypomonoglots”; sub- is a Latin prefix, mono- and -glot are both Greek, so we English classisists prefer the Greek prefix! Eye new that eddickayshum wood cum in yousfull wun day!
¡Felcidades, John, por eso! Tu trabajo vale mucho la pena y merece ser difundido. Si es en otros idiomas, aún mejor.