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Why we think that German has a bigger vocabulary than English (or any other Indo-European language)
18 novembre 2016, par Ray -
Why we think that German has a bigger vocabulary than English (or any other Indo-European language)
18 novembre 2016, par RayWhile it is widely considered that the almost-universal language of Shakespeare and Bob Dylan has the largest number of words of any Indo-European language – languages of agglutinative language-families, such as Japanese, Turkish and Hungarian, which by construction attach many suffixes to a root as the meaning of a phrase evolves, cannot be compared to Indo-European languages in lexical terms – it seems obvious to us that this distinction rather belongs to the language of Goethe and Thomas (…)
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A selection of South Seas stories by Jack London
2 novembre 2016, par Jack LondonJack London loved sailing and spent a lot of time boating around not only his beloved Bay of San Francisco, but also and especially the innumerable South Sea islands and Hawaii, which were the subject of a sizable portion of his oeuvre (33 short stories and novelettes, and 3 of his novels).
He was particularly fascinated by the culture-shock both sides experienced as the Western/European/American values and mores and money-power had recently steam-rolled their way across the Pacific in (…) -
Twelve of Jack London’s best Far North stories
31 octobre 2016, par Jack LondonThe best of Jack London’s writings were mostly produced during his inspired decade 1899-1908, after the year he had spent in the Klondike region of Canada’s Northwest Territories participating in the great gold rush there.
A majority (63) of the 107 short stories he wrote and published during that extraordinarily creative and prolific period were based on the harsh life and mostly-bitter experiences he had lived through and seen and heard about in that wild land.
With the Klondike (…) -
Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London
16 juillet 2016, par Jack LondonJack London’s stories of life and adventure in the Far North, mostly set in the Klondike region of the Northwest Territories in Canada during the great gold rush of 1898 there, all feature striking descriptions of the extreme climatic conditions experienced by the participants in that greatest of gold rushes.
We have regrouped here the very best of all of his Klondike tales centred on the struggle for survival in that extraordinarily severe and hostile – and dangerous – clime.
An e-book (…) -
Jack London’s funniest story : "That Spot" (1908)
12 juillet 2016, par Jack LondonJack London is best known for his two adventurous Klondike tales, the novella The Call of the Wild and his novel White Fang, featuring exceptionally tough and survival-prone dogs not unlike their wild wolf forebears.
His great talent for getting into the heart and mind of mankind’s oldest conquest had already been evident in the many Klondike stories in which dogs and dog-teams are featured, but nowhere was his genius for capturing the individualities and personalities of the canine genre (…) -
German Literature – a personal survey
9 mars 2016, par RayYou will find in this compilation of works a reasonably comprehensive, albeit necessarily incomplete, sampling of the outstanding German-language short stories, novelettes, novellas, novels and plays that have been written by German, Austrian and Swiss authors over the past several hundred years. No. Date Author German Title English_Title_____ Genre Synopsis/Commentary__________________________________________ 1 1668 Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelschausen Der Abenteuerliche (…)
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The average number of meanings per word in German
1er mars 2016, par RayBased on a study of the evolving number of words in the successive editions of our German-English Literary Dictionary, we can safely venture to say that, for German :
– there are about 2 meanings per word on average for the 10,000 or so most commonly-used words (such as those listed in the initial version of our dictionary) ;
– there are 1.6 meanings per word when the word-population is expanded to 30,000 or so widely-used terms, such as those in the latest version of the dictionary ; (…) -
Fifteen golden-age science-fiction stories by A. E. van Vogt
31 janvier 2016, par A. E. van VogtThese fifteen stories are all fine examples of this great writer’s best work from his most creative period – the forties and early fifties, the "golden age" of science-fiction.
All of the stories published here are the original magazine versions, with the magazine artwork and cover for each story.
An e-book of this sizable anthology (185,000 words, 600+ standard printed pages) is available for downloading below. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Repetition (1940) - an emissary from Earth struggles (…) -
"Destination : Universe !" - A. E. van Vogt’s superb first anthology of his science-fiction short stories (1952)
9 octobre 2015, par A. E. van VogtA. E. van Vogt’s first anthology of his golden-age short stories, published in early 1952, with the author’s introduction and all the original magazine texts, artwork and covers of each story. TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION by A. E. van Vogt.
1. Far Centaurus (1944) Getting to Centaurus on a spaceship can take a long time indeed, and when you get there, there will be surprises ! (7,700 words).
2. The Monster (1948) Aliens of the ever-expanding Ganae race check out Earth as a suitable (…)