Language In the late '50s, Bennett Cerf bet Doctor Seuss that he couldn't write a book using only 50 words. The result was "Green Eggs and Ham." In the beginning the Word already was. The Word was in God's presence, and what God was, the Word was. He was with God at the beginning, and through him all things came to be; without him no created thing came into being. The Gospel According to John 1:1-3 If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not meant, then what ought to be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and arts will deteriorate; if morals and arts deteriorate, justice will go astray; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in hopeless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. Confucius Most violence is a language problem. Young people don't know how to use words to navigate conflict. Once you've said "Fuck your mama!" what else can you do but pick up a gun or knife? Janet Archibald Rochester, New York Public School #22 teacher 35 year veteran English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages, "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case. Sydney Harris If we would change society, we must begin by calling things by their true names. Confucius We are so unaccustomed to precision of speech that when we hear it, our ears are frightened. Stan Kunitz With pen and pencil we're learning to say Nothing, more cleverly, every day. William Allingham The words of the wise are as goads. Ecclesiastes Language Your Dictionary (Splendid Resource!) http://www.yourdictionary.com Reference Desk www.refdesk.com The American Heritage Book of English Usage http://www.bartleby.com/64/ 600 dictionaries (Aramaic to Zulu) http://www.onelook.com/ I Love Languages: http://www.ilovelanguages.com/ Merriam Webster Dictionary, Thesaurus (and 230 non English Dictionaries) http://www.m-w.com/home.htm The Exploding Dictionary (an interestingly cross-referenced work) http://projects.ghostwheel.com/dictionary/ Rhyming Dictionary www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html Bartlett's Quotations http://www.bartleby.com/99/ Classics, University of Kentucky http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/ Maledicta Press is not for the easily offended http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/ Wilton's Etymology Page (Far from exhaustive, but of interest) http://www.wilton.net/etyma1.htm Word for Word etymology site http://plateaupress.com.au/wfw/wfwindex.htm Ed Lamereaux's Rhetorical Resources (Great Links) http://bradley.bradley.edu/~ell/index.html English Usage. Great on-line bibliography including Strunk's Elements of Style, Scots English, The Grammar Lady, Ask a Linguist, Anagram Finder and The Acronym Genius http://welcome.to/aue Evolution of Alphabets, Semitic and Slavic Languages. Site maintained by Robert Fradkin, U. of Maryland http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/ Figures of Speech defined. Well-designed, straightforward webpage. (A subset of U. Kentucky's Classics webpage listed above.) http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html Good English, Bad English. Fine set of links. http://www.nobunaga.demon.co.uk/htm/english.htm Harcourt Dictionary of Science and Technology http://www.harcourt.com/dictionary/ History of English Website. A clearing house of well-arranged, high-quality links. http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html John M. Lawler, Linguist. Abstruse set of intellectually rigorous sites. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/ Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America. (A bit thin, but fun) http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/land/ ARTLEX. Art and Language. Good set of translation tools. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/links.html Lexical Freenet (with rhyming dictionary and "connected" thesaurus) http://www.raisch.com/lexfn/ Links for Logophiles. Word origins, word games. Dictionaries. Fine selection of "other links." http://www.wordwithyou.com/links.htm Meso-American Language Documentation http://www.albany.edu/anthro/maldp/ Teaching Indigenous Languages. http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html Oxford English Dictionary, Word of the Day http://oed.com/cgi/display/wotd The Maven's Word of the Day (from Random House) http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/ Take Our Word for It. (The Weekly Word Origin web-zine) http://www.takeourword.com/index.html The Human Languages Page. Over 1900 links. One strength is the site's language learning tools. http://www.ilovelanguages.com/ Ecology of Conversations: Live Speech and Dead Speech. Not everyone's cupatea, but interesting analysis. I like that the author quotes and approves of Ivan Illich. http://www.oikos.org/livedead.htm Verbatim Magazine investigates language generally, and English specifically. http://www.verbatimmag.com/ Word Detective: www.word-detective.com Word Museum http://www.wordmuseum.com/ Living Languages of the Americas (Fascinating compilation of languages which currently exist, but, which like 95% of the planetary languages currently spoken will be extinct in less than 100 years.) http://www.sil.org/ Schola. Classical Tutorials http://www.schola-tutorials.com/resource.htm Writer's Resources (the whole scoop): http://www.writerswrite.com/ History of the English Language: http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html TERRALINGUA: "Partnerships for Biologic and Linguistic Diversity" http://www.terralingua.org/ ESL site (Good on-line tool): http://www.rong-chang.com/ The Grammar Lady www.grammarlady.com Routes/Roots of English http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/ Phrase finder (the origin of phrases) www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases Tongue Twisters in 77 languages http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ World Wide Words (Exploring the English Language from a British Perspective) http://www.quinion.com/words/ Books on Line Electronic Literature Directory (Vast access) http://directory.eliterature.org/ Bartleby Project http://www.bartleby.com/ Project Gutenberg http://www.promo.net/pg/ Great Books Index http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html The Internet Public Library (including complete list of on-line global newspapers segregated by country) http://www.ipl.org/ On-line newspapers by geographic region: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ Bibliomania - literature and reference books "on-line" - http://www.bibliomania.com/ On-line Literature Library: http://www.literature.org/authors/ The On-Line Books Page (U. of Penn) http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Great Books from Anova's web-ring http://www.anova.org/gb.html Great Books from Malaspina's web-ring http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/fivestar.htm Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/authors.html Bibliomania Classic Fiction http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/ Emory University's Electronic Library Clearing House: http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/links.html University of Maryland Reading Room http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/ Concordances of Great Books (600 texts) http://www.concordance.com/concordances.htm Classical Literature Archive (441 texts) http://classics.mit.edu/ Classic Books on-line http://www.classicbookshelf.com Arthur's Classic Texts (with good links to other e-texts) http://www.unityspot.com/arthurs/dostoyevsky.html JollyRoger.com Great Books and Classics Library http://jollyroger.com/library/index.html C-Span http://www.booktv.org/ Book Browser Guide for Avid Readers. (8000 on-line reviews) http://www.bookbrowser.com/ Book Spot http://www.bookspot.com/ University of Toronto English Library http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ Spiritual Meditations http://www.vatican.va/spirit/spirit_en.htm Buddhist Studies Virtual Library (Voluminous material) Wisdom of China and India http://www.san.beck.org/Wisdom-East-Contents.html Tao Te Ching http://www.san.beck.org/Laotzu.html#53 Electronic Literature Directory http://directory.eliterature.org/ On-line Philosophy Texts (categorized by philosopher) http://philosophy.about.com/homework/philosophy/library/blworksindex.htm?terms=Ivan+Illich Philosohy in Cyberspace http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/ Classics Page (U. of Kentucky) http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/ Perseus Homepage (with Latin texts) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Electronic Text Center (Fair collection; good links) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/ New York Public Library (See "Exhibitions On-line") www.nypl.org University of Michigan Library http://mel.lib.mi.us/main-index.html University of Michigan Reference Desk http://mel.lib.mi.us/reference/REF-index.html Librarians' Index to the Internet, "By Librarians; For Everyone!" http://lii.org Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes (an ongoing project of the Universidad de Alicante which aims to upload all "significant" Spanish books for free on-line access. Even their English language catalog is superb. See below.) http://cervantesvirtual.com/ English language on-line book access through Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes http://cervantesvirtual.com/FichaAutor.html?Ref=841 Christian Classics "Ethereal Library" (Exemplary collection) http://www.ccel.org/ Biblical Research Tool (including several versions of the Bible.) University of Birmingham, England www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre/multibib.htm New Advent (a wealth of Christian texts) www.newadvent.org The Fathers of the Church, Original Texts http://newadvent.org/fathers/ Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich http://www.la.psu.edu/philo/illich/deschool/intro.html Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich http://www.oikos.org/ecology/illich.htm A Constitution for Cultural Revolution, by Ivan Illich www.community-work-training.org.uk/articles/illich1.htm Chesterton Texts On-Line www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7854/index.html Facsimile Manuscripts at Oxford University (Beautiful illuminations) http://image.ox.ac.uk/ George Orwell Texts http://students.ou.edu/C/Kara.C.Chiodo-1/orwell.html#texts Children's Literature on the Web (U. of Calgary) http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ Scholastic Children's Literature Tool: http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorsandbooks.jhtml Search Across Scientific Journal Sites to locate original texts. (Stanford U.) http://highwire.stanford.edu/searchall/ Library of Congress Homepage (Not a books-on-line site, but indispensable nonetheless. The "American Memory" section is worth a glimpse.) http://www.loc.gov/ Libraries on the Web http://www.atlantic.net/~bdarl/library.html Afro-American Women Writers of the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html Martin Luther King Papers (at Stanford U.) http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ The Complete Thomas Jefferson Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html Alexis de Tocqueville http://www.c-span.org/alexis/ Harper's Weekly. The 19th Century World http://www.harpweek.com/ Myth and Legend. A riot of top-notch links. http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth2.html Science Fiction http://www.citsoft.com/scifi.html Sherlock Holmes Collection http://www.citsoft.com/holmes.html Shakespeare Collected Works http://www.bartleby.com/70/index.html Social Criticism Review (Great collection of essays and excerpts) http://www.socialcritic.org/review.htm Cambridge History of English Literature http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ The Devil's Dicitonary (and more) by Ambrose Bierce http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1131/bierce.html The Moonlit Road (Ghost stories of the South) http://www.themoonlitroad.com/ Selected Essays by Montaigne http://www.best.com/~glad/montaigne/ William Blake http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/main.html Emerson's Essays http://www.rwe.org/pages/Essays.htm John Muir: www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit Kurt Vonnegut http://www.duke.edu/~crh4/vonnegut/ Vaclav Havel personal webpage http://www.hrad.cz/president/Havel/index_uk.html On-Line Texts (categorized by philosopher) http://philosophy.about.com/homework/philosophy/library/blworksindex.htm?terms=Ivan+Illich Plato, Aristotle http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1927/philosophy.html Barbara Ehrenreich http://www.lbbs.org/zmag/articles/ehren2.htm Samuel Johnson http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/ The Poetry Archives http://www.emule.com/poetry/ Library Journal "Best Books of the Year" (reviews) http://www.ljdigital.com/articles/books/booknews/20000101_13174.asp Samizdat Express. One of the quirkiest personal sites on the web. Content-rich. http://www.samizdat.com/ Used book location service. Links with thousands of dealers. http://www.bibliofind.com/ Short Stories (all categories including children's stories) http://www.short-stories.co.uk/ Story Exchange http://storyexchange.paconline.net./ Essays On-Line Social Criticism Review (Social criticism as if survival mattered.) Kirkpatrick Sale, Howard Reingold, Neil Postman, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Amitai Etzioni, Robert Bellah, David Korter, Jerry Mander, Jean Bethke Elstain, Lewis Lapham, Jeremy Rifkin, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Gary Wills, Immanuel Kant, Thoreau, de Tocqueville, Dostoyevsky, Aldous Huxley, Eduardo Galeano, Sakharov, Camus, Faulkner, Aristotle, Plato www.socialcritic.org/review.htm "Global Stewards," a sustainable living anthology. http://globalstewards.org/think.htm On-line Media Literacy Project (Great Collection of on-line articles including Postman, Howard Reingold, Larry Cuban) http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/fa/articles/newmedia.html Essays on the Philosophy of Technology http://www.geocities.com/combusem/PHILTECH.HTM Archived articles from 350 journals (including America): http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml Resurgence Magazine: Articles On-line (From Gorbachov to Thich Nhat Hanh): http://www.gn.apc.org/resurgence/ADMIN/articles.htm#Spirituality Schumacher Lecture Series (with all previous lectures - Wes Jackson, Kirkpatrick Sale, Jerry Mander et al.): http://www.schumachersociety.org/lectures.html Ten Solutions to Transform Victorian Capitalism into Democratic Capitalism David M. Boje June 17, 1998 --- Good, hyperlinked article with links to Mondragon cooperative. Strong Illich influence. Focus on decentralized community organization in New Mexico Essay on the relationship between knowledge and love: "We know to the extent we love." Augustine of Hippo http://www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca/human/folklife/cdamweb/pubs/kelker1.htm Scott London interviews Jerry Mander, Terry Tempest Williams, James Hillman, Benjamin Barber, Jean Houston, Marianne Williamson, Sam Keen, Richard Rodriguez and others. (Mostly Sun Magazine interviews) http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/index.html The Neo-Luddites by Kirkpatrick Sale http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/crawdad/213/neolud.html Memory Palace: Vernacular Culture in a Digital Age (Streaming audio interviews with Illich and others) http://sunsite.queensu.ca/memorypalace/ Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/journal_of_democracy/v006/putnam.html Cultivating Christian Anger: A Warning from the Fifth Century http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/11.1docs/cultivating.html Television and "Cultivation Theory" http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/petersikt/Media_stuff/CultTh.html Technology and the Future http://www.alteich.com/content8.htm The Global Ideas Bank http://www.globalideasbank.org/ Magazines On-line Resurgence (To my mind, the best on-line magazine.) http://www.resurgence.org Orion Online (Check out "Curmudgeon in the Wild"): http://www.oriononline.org/index2.html Zuzu's Petals (Inexhaustible resource --- over 10,000 links to periodical literature sites.) http://www.zuzu.com/ Admirable experiments in on-line journalism: Spark On-Line http://www.spark-online.com/ Slate http://slate.msn.com/ TruthOut www.truthout.com NewsChoose www.newschoose.com Fray http://www.fray.com Sun Magazine (A magazine of ideas from Chapel Hill, NC) http://www.thesunmagazine.org/ Utne Reader http://www.utne.com Whole Earth Magazine http://www.wholeearth.com/ Harpers http www.harpers.org The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/ The Nation (Intelligent views from the left) www.thenation.com First Things (Intelligent views from the right) http://www.firstthings.com/ Dissent Magazine http://www.dissentmagazine.org/ Reason http://www.reason.com/ Arts & Letters Daily (Premier resource; fine articles; solid links.) www.aldaily.com New Republic On-Line Books, Magazines and the Arts http://magazines.enews.com/magazines/tnr/112999/thearts112999.html Parabola: Myth, Tradition and the Search for Meaning www.parabola.org Sojourners Magazine www.sojourners.com/ Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/ Alternative Press Links http://www.scn.org/news/newspeak/gone.html New York Times www.nytimes.com New York Times Book Review: www.nytimes.com/books The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/ New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/ Cortland Review: www.cortlandreview.com Disinformation http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=toc Hopscotch http://www.hopscotch.org/ La Raza (Bilingual on-line magazine based in Chicago) http://www.laraza.com/ Spanish language newspapers (by country, region and city) http://periodicos.ws/ Mother Jones http://bsd.mojones.com/news_wire/counter_clios.html Mother Jones Interactive http://www.motherjones.com/ One World.Net (Rooted third world perspectives) http://www.oneworld.net/ Z-Net, Z-Mag http://www.lbbs.org/ZNETTOPnoanimation.html Reporters' Internet Guide http://www.crl.com/~jshenry/rig.html Black Van & Processed World http://www.blackvan.net/ Technos Quarterly http://www.technos.net/journal/issue.htm The Economist http://www.economist.com/ The Spectacle http://www.spectacle.org/past.html The Onion (Satire) http://www.theonion.com/ U.S. News (and World Report) http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm SciCentral features a free scientific literature notification service. You may sign up to receive "alerts" from any - or all - of 120 scientific categories. www.SciCentral.com Sci Tech Daily is an on-line scientific magazine with an extraordinarily rich "home page." http://scitechdaily.com Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/ New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/ Popular Scientist http://www.popsci.com/ Popular Mechanics http://popularmechanics.com/ National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/ Cultural Survival (See Cultural Survival Quarterly on homepage) http://www.cs.org Shambala Sun http://www.shambhalasun.com/ Touchstone Magazine www.touchstonemag.com Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) http://www.fair.org/ Old Farmer's Almanac http://www.almanac.com/ Political Cartoons http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/ News of the Weird (Truth is stranger than fiction.) http://www.newsoftheweird.com/ On-line newspapers by geographic region http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/0,6961,,00.html Scoop (from New Zealand): http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/ Discovering Archaeology (a Scientific American publication): http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/ Brill's Content. The All-Star Newspaper. Links to the best of the press. The Independent ("home" of columnist Hal Crowther; by my lights America's most insightful political commentator) www.indyweek.com National Catholic Reporter (Soulful reporting. Global coverage) www.natcath.org Newspapers and Information Services On-line newspapers by geographic region: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ Most Linked-To Local News Sites (by American Journalism Review): http://ajr.newslink.org/topsites.html The Omnivore (A daily news and information service): http://www.way.net/omnivore/ Alternative Press Sources Alternative News Sources: http://www.scn.org/news/newspeak/gone.html Zmag/Znet: http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm The Progressive: http://www.progressive.org/ Truth Out www.truthout.com Common Dreams News Center http://www.commondreams.org/ Alter Net: http://www.alternet.org/ FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) http://www.fair.org/ Web Tracks - Daily updates from the world press. Peace, justice and environmental issues. (Good Reuters leads) http://web-tracks.org/ Independent Media Center (National scope with full list of local links) http://indymedia.org/ Alternative Press Review http://www.altpr.org/ One World Net: http://www.oneworld.net/ Mother Jones: http://www.mojones.com/motherjones.html UnderNews (from The Progressive Review): http://prorev.com/indexa.htm Green Net News "Feeds": http://www.gn.apc.org/news/confs/newsser.html Just Response (Views the world with religious "bias"): http://www.justresponse.org/ Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/ Madre (International Women's Human Rights Organization): http://www.madre.org/resources/wtc1.html In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/ Between the Lines (A weekly radio news magazine): http://www.wpkn.org/wpkn/news/btl092801.html The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ The Independent (England): http://www.independent.co.uk/ Global Info (Daily News Service of the Developing World): http://www.globalinfo.org/ News Choose www.newschoose.com Infoshop (anarchist orientation): http://infoshop.org/ United for Peace and Justice http://unitedforpeace.org/ AHRAM (Egytian News): http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/579/index.htm Electronic Intifada: http://electronicIntifada.net/new.html Corporation Watch (Holding Corporations Accountable): http://www.corpwatch.org/ National Catholic Reporter (Soulful reporting. Global coverage): www.natcath.org Periodista Digital: http://www.periodistadigital.com/ Rebelion: www.rebelion.org |
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