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Linguists in the Wild: From Irish to Kurdish to freeing the language Diamonds from the ashes, by Countess Sigrid von Galen

Linguists in the Wild: From Irish to Kurdish to freeing the language Diamonds from the ashes, by Countess Sigrid von Galen In one of my random searches on my quest to link history with today's linguistic reality I came across the thoughts of Elizabeth J. Payne, from her early days in Harvard to her more recent publications featured below. Language is a living thing, and sound and meaning mutations, and new word and sound creations are constantly happening right on our door steps and in our homes. The very interaction and communication between speakers of various tongues, accents and dialects is the stream of milk and honey that nourishes and sustains neighbourhoods, families and ever changing civilizations. We are all part of this process that is happening more than ever in lightspeed in the spoken world, jumping out of old boxes, free of the restraints of officially imposed categories and of the dead vocabularies of bureaucracy and from the smokescreen science

The Irish Alphabet / Crainn, Ogham and Trees Alphabet

Tara's Destiny, by Sigrid Countess von Galen

R.I.P. Honor Nuala Muellan-Hughes, Obituary