links for 2007-09-14

• Master’s Degrees Abound as Universities and Students See a Windfall – New York Times
  Everyone’s getting a master’s degree these days. Except me, so far.
  (tags: grad-school nytimes)
• The Salakatankatas and Lanka
  Lanka and Sinhala could be different.
  (tags: ramayana indian-history india sri-lanka)
• Language Log: Linguistic Advice in the Lavatory: Speaking Mandarin is a great convenience for everyone
  Sanskrit upaaya becomes Chinese fangbian (“great convinience”, hence “go to toilet”), and gets found propagandizing Mandarin in a Beijing university toilet. Irony at 11.
  (tags: chinese china beijing linguistics sanskrit)