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Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: February 2011, Ruth E.. Souto

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Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - February 2011

Economics Of Literary Translation. A Simple Theory And Evidence, Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber, Sheila Weyers

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Books are an important factor of cultural transmission, but often need to be translated to achieve this goal. English is sometimes accused of dominating in terms of translations. We develop a simple theoretical model, which is estimated using UNESCO translation data, and show that if account is taken of factors such as production in the original language and distances between cultures, translations from English are by-passed in relative terms by translations from other idioms, including Scandinavian languages and French. Very little is however translated into English.

Scholarworks Statistics - February 2011, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of February 2011, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 11,151 full-text downloads.

Bibliography Of The Published Writings Of Warren M. Tsuneishi (1921-2011), Frank Joseph Shulman

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

No. 152 Journal Of East Asian Libraries, Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Youtube For Foreign Languages: You Have To See This Video, Joseph M. Terantino

Faculty Articles

“Have you seen this video?” “You have to see this video.” For the students belonging to the digital natives (Prensky, 2001), these phrases are used frequently to express their enthusiasm and overwhelming interest in new and fascinating videos that they have found via the Internet. These commonplace phrases also demonstrate their genuine desire to share and discuss what they have found. Inspired by Chinnery’s (2008) column in which he describes Google-Assisted Language Learning, this column aims to accomplish a similar feat with regard to YouTube. The descriptions offered here are geared towards integrating the practice of creating, watching, and sharing …

Bylaws Of The Council On East Asian Libraries Association For Asian Studies, Inc., Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 44 Number 1

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.

My Fifteen Minutes Of Fame, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes (Andy Warhol, 1968)

Not world-famous, and for less than ten minutes ... but on December 12 2010 I saw myself portrayed by a professional actor to an audience of 35 on an off-Broadway (Jersey City) stage. The 90-minute one-act play, "Logomaniacs" bu Paul Fleischman, consisted of short sketches of 26 wordplay notables, one for each letter of the alphabet, from Walter Abish who wrote Alphabetical Africa ("Ages ago, Alex, Allan and Alva arrived at Antibes...") to Ludwig Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, including Howard Chace who invented Anguish Languish ("Ladle …

A Backdoor Approach To Lipograms, A. Anil

Word Ways

How many letters can be excluded and still produce a recognizable lipogram of Mary's Lamb? For starters, excluding five letters jkqxz has no effect as they're absent in the original. Excluding five more letters bfpvy had a minimal effect, as see here (substitute words underlined).

Colloquy

Word Ways

Responses to previously published articles.

Resolving The Riddle: Plan Bee, Jim Puder

Word Ways

The discovery by Ronnie B. Kon, which he reported in the Nov. 2010 Word Ways, of an earlier, different version of Faith Eckler's refractory "1831" riddle constitutes a breakthrough, I believe, in the decades-old effort to deduce a convincing answer to this stumper. Whereas before, this riddle had seemed (to me, at least) to be intractably baffling, now, suddenly, a satisactorily suasive solution to it is discernable.

From Trash To Ashtray, Solomon W. Golomb

Word Ways

Standard "pig Latin" transforms an English word by relocating all consonant sounds (if any) before the first vowel from the beginning to the end of the word, and then appending the sound to -ay. Examples include: run to unray; black to ackblay, mice to icemay, and act to actay. Pig Latin is intended to modify spoken English, so it should operate on pronunciations, not spellings. Thus: gem to emjay (or M.J.), hour to ouray, and wide to I'd weigh. Of special interest are words that become new English words or expressions in …

A Lot Of Hot Air, Faith W. Eckler

Word Ways

A lot of hot air has been generated in an attempt to solve the riddle first proposed in Word Ways in 1981. I believe that Ronnie Kon has unwittingly given us the clue that will reveal the riddle's answer. He notes that it first appeared in Dickson's Balloon Almanac in 1801, and we need to discover what kind of publication that was.

A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

"Bedtime"

Word Rings From Rearranged Alphabets, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

On page wu (wort-uiteinden) of Opperlauns! taal- & letterkunde (Querido, 2003), Battus (pseudonym of Hugo Brandt Corstius) constructed lists of 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, and 9-letter Dutch words in which the end of one word was the start of the next: for example, query, yapok, knoop, ... zamac, clash. Each letter of the Dutch alphabet was used once in a word-join. By rearranging the alphabet to accommodate rare starts and endings, Battus created strings using every letter.

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute.

"A Word Of Difference", J. James Mancuso

Word Ways

A selection of some neologisms for publication in Word Ways: starting with letters C through E, submitted on 2 Nov 2010.

Cipher Wheels For Cheerfuller Hallmarking, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

Cipher wheels are a well-known method of cryptography. Their embodiments range from the Jefferson wheel, invented by the American President Thomas Jefferson, to the Enigma machine, whose solution was critical to the course of World War II. Not surprisingly, cipher wheels are related to several basic topics in wordplay. These topics include non-crashing word sets, shiftwords, collinear words, halfway words and reflectors.

Anagram Quiz, A. Anil

Word Ways

The clues are definitive anagrams or polyanagrams of the answers. Most are reversible anagrams from up/dn and Word Ways here given in reverse order. Reversible anagrams are pairs that work either way, eg, pat=tap = tap=pat. To be definitions of each other they should be grammatically compatible, as most here are. Answers are out back.

Dogging The Wag: More Amusing Bloopers And Puckish Retorts, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

Last fall, a weekly e-zine published by someone I know -- I'll omit identifying information here -- ran me this announcement:

"Novelist Ford Madox Ford once said that you can 'open the book to page 99 and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.' He's now putting his idea to the test by launching http://www.page99test.com in a few weeks. This new site will allow any authors (or aspiring authors) to upload the 99th page of their books and allow readers to comment on whether they would buy or like to read the rest of their books."

Does …

Spoonerism Riddles, Will Shortz

Word Ways

Last summer on my weekly puzzle segment on NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday" I ran a creative competition involving spoonerism riddles. Listeners were invited to submit original riddles in which each answer involved a spoonerism.

A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

"Twiddle-bug"

Kickshaws Feb 2011

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Post-Its -- 1, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

The building blocks for this vocabulary quiz are provided courtesy of the United States Postal Service. For instance, given the clue "misnomers", the requisite response is formed by concatenating the official two-letter abbreviations of the states of California, Colorado, New York, and Mississippi to produce CA CO NY MS The first dozen examples solicit six-letter words made up of three two-letter abbreviations, while the final quartet has answers that are each eight letters in length and thus require four such abbreviations. To facilitate the discovery process, all required blocks have been supplied, with the number of times each appears indicated …

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

Some Words To The Wise: A Book Review, Karen Farrell

Word Ways

A book review of Steven Kahan's Some Words to the Wise: Sixty More Adventures in Logology for the Connoisseur.

Punk Whiz 13, A. Anil

Word Ways

Another Pun Quiz of misdefinitions, which usually also hint at the actual meanings. In parentheses are the letters in the answer: (5|4) is a charade, a nine letter word that splits into a five plus four letter pun. My answers are out back.

A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

"Barbershop"

The Alphanumeric Properties Of Hyperpolygraphemic Oligosyllables, T.A. Hall

Word Ways

In a recent article in this journal (Word Ways, August 2003), Hugo Brandt Corstius examines the connection between the number of letters in a word and the number of syllables it contains. Basing his observations on Dutch, he coins the term 'oligosyllabic', which he defines as a word in which the number of letters is more than four times greater than the number of its syllables.