http://ideophone.org/adjectives-and-the-gospel/ Sounding out ideas on African languages, vivid sensory words, and iconicity Sat, 12 May 2012 10:14:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://ideophone.org/adjectives-and-the-gospel/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Four Stone Hearth #42 « Neuroanthropology Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:45:47 +0000 http://ideophone.org/?p=72#comment-466 [...] Mark Dingemanse, at The Ideophone, has a discussion of Joh. Bernard Schlegel’s assertion, published in 1857, that Ewe wasn’t a fully civilized language because it didn’t have enough adjectives (ironic, because the number of adjectives in a student essay is usually a reliable predictor of just how over-written it is…). Although Schlegel thought that the Bible would have the salutary effect of increasing Ewe adjectival creativity, a century and a half later, the Good Book still hasn’t led to the hoped-for linguistic proliferation. Check it out at Adjectives and the gospel in Ewe. [...] [...] Mark Dingemanse, at The Ideophone, has a discussion of Joh. Bernard Schlegel’s assertion, published in 1857, that Ewe wasn’t a fully civilized language because it didn’t have enough adjectives (ironic, because the number of adjectives in a student essay is usually a reliable predictor of just how over-written it is…). Although Schlegel thought that the Bible would have the salutary effect of increasing Ewe adjectival creativity, a century and a half later, the Good Book still hasn’t led to the hoped-for linguistic proliferation. Check it out at Adjectives and the gospel in Ewe. [...]

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