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
Ecology and Biodiversity Modelling and ecological niches 2 Jul 2009 Overlooked due to the orang paper in the Journal of Biogeography is a simulation of the effects of global warming on Bigfoot distributions. It turns out that Sasquatch will become more widespread due to global warming… Late note: John Dennehy also has a nice piece on this paper. Read More
Humor How to review a book 11 Dec 20074 Oct 2017 From Henry Gee’s blog: I had thought that people who write marketing and advertising blurb for publishers occupied a rung on the scala naturae slightly above creationists. This may be true, but whatever the height of their perch, it is still below that of estate agents, as judged from this… Read More
History John Ray on species fixity and race 19 Sep 202019 Sep 2020 For since in nature the number of species is fixed and determined, since ‘God on the sixth day rested from all his labour’, that is, from the creation of new species, however infinite might be the number of plants varying in colour and multiplicity of flower, with new ones arising… 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.