Lexicon Valley is a great podcast by the linguist John McWhorter, who manages to be fun while also being right about everything. The latest episode is about linguistic pet peeves, something linguists aren’t really supposed to have – it’s unseemly, like communists having brand preferences. But even people who know most linguistic pet peeves are… Continue reading Pet peeves
Month: April 2020
Yet more translations of Parzival
Well, that was fast. After expressing a wish that A. S. Kline would live to complete his new verse translation of Wolfram’s Parzival, (as Chrétien de Troyes failed to do with his own Perceval), I got an email from him with a link to the finished product on April 14th. And I’m enjoying it very… Continue reading Yet more translations of Parzival