[BRIEF NOTE] Some Articles

[rfmcdonald]

• Via Language Hat, Merlyn de Smit's essay "A 'Paradigm Shift' in Finnish Linguistic Prehistory." In referring to the specific situation on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, de Smit criticizes the traditional classification of languages based not on actual contact between languages but rather based on implied genealogical descent.


• In the International Tribune Herald, Roger Cohen has an article on the German-Polish relationship. His verdict: Still somewhat tenuous, but definitely improving.


• The Pacific News Service provides an article describing the latest wave of ethnic Korean immigrants to Los Angeles, coming not from the Korean peninsula but from other Korean immigrant places in countries as far apart as Argentina, Brazil, and Uzbekistan.


• Transitions Online carries a memorial to Czeslaw Milosz.


• Harry's Place has a short but sweet post on the new phenomenon of conservative correctness.
  

UPDATE (5:49 PM): simonff corrects me on the link to the Harry's Place article.