Archive for December, 2009

The top ten search queries for ታሕሳስ (December)

1
woman

2
apple

3
fight

4
football

5
roll

6
sap

7
you

8
honourable

9
browse

10
Tuesday

December 31, 2009 • Tags:  • Posted in: top ten search queries • No Comments

A linguist on communication

Here’s a link to a New York Times piece on French linguist Claude Hagège (author of On the Death and Life of Languages) and a few questions about his thoughts on the future of communication. It’s an interesting read.

December 18, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: Linguistics • No Comments

Simona’s nature adventures in Eritrea

I found a nice little cache of animated children’s stories and workbooks that have been translated to Tigrinya. I urge everyone to give them a quick look, each story also has an option to switch to the English translation.
Simona’s Nature Adventures in Eritrea, East Africa
Lucy Lava
Light Magic
What is a tree?
Workbooks:
Human body – 1, 2, [...]

December 15, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: Eritrea, Tigrigna, language • No Comments

The “ምግቢ ቢራሚድ”?

Maybe the writer meant “ምግቢ ፒራሚድ,” but now I can’t get the image of some sort of food/beer/pyramid thing out of my head……ah well.
To get right to the point, I made this post to give you another English/Tigrinya pamphlet link. This one is about the food pyramid and it has the Tigrinya translation directly [...]

December 8, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: Tigrigna • No Comments

Two Years!

It’s been two wonderful years of Tigrigna lexicography bliss, as this December marks the second anniversary of memhr.org
In the beginning this website started as just a weird hobby of mine and today it continues as such; I can’t stress this enough, telling myself that this is “just a hobby” is the one rule in my [...]