This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
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I am busier than ever, but unfortunately my current activities don’t make for very interesting blogging. After reaching proficiency in Mari, I’ve had to go and start from scratch with Chuvash, and I can’t seem to write any entertaining posts from the very elementary level I am currently at. My theoretical reading has dropped because [...]
The supposed lack of support for Mari Unicode Cyrillic on Windows has gotten wide media attention in Russia, and regrettably it’s a simple case of people not knowing how to work their computer. In one television report, a woman complains that her printouts of Mari materials from an Internet cafe are gibberish because they don’t [...]