An Academic Blog Duo
Sloe to the finish line… Caveat lector—the spelling in the blog title belies a non-native German speaker’s meager approximation of two terms encountered in travels through Carinthia (Austria). Lo, in the Jauntal did I find two fruits referred to with these terms, both of which referenced dark-skinned (reddish-purple and bluish-purple), fairly small stone fruits. To […]
Food offers a bountiful table from which to dine when it comes to linguistics and etymology. A name that has long puzzled me is Tamerl, one which I’ve only encounted while dining at the Most & Weinschenke Tamerl in Griffen, and this is a seldom, but cherished, occurrence. My first, and clearly wrong, thought was […]
Many of the dialect words I encounter are in printed. Though I interact with dialect speakers fairly frequently, there’s an element of on-the-spot communication that keeps me from remembering new words that might sprout up in the conversation. Sometimes I can figure out the meaning from context while I might be lost at other times […]