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3 votes
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Banda Magda, "Tam Tam" | NPR Music (Night Owl S2 • E4)
2 votes -
How millennials are breathing fresh life into the ancient Irish language
9 votes -
Muslim Magomayev - Azərbaycan (Azerbaijan)
5 votes -
How to learn a language: Input
8 votes -
Poor English, few jobs: Are Australian universities using international students as 'cash cows'?
9 votes -
What these two French words can teach us about social change
3 votes -
A 4,000-year old tale of trade and contraband
3 votes -
We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything
8 votes -
Pesniary - Kasiŭ Jaś kaniušynu (Yas was mowing clover)
5 votes -
Cultural activist from Guyana's Wapishana tribe tries to revive a near-extinct language
6 votes -
Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?
9 votes -
Eduard Khil - Zima (Winter) (1971)
5 votes -
The island that never stops apologising
7 votes -
The elusive foolproof theory of the origin of language
2 votes -
Orçun Umay - Ayağında Kundura (2019)
4 votes -
What is the best age to learn a language?
13 votes -
Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print
9 votes -
unawake no escape . i whisper secrets to sedate .
FUCCCCCCCCCCCC IT WE DRUNK AGAIN WE OUT HERE GEN Z PAINN VIBIN *#BIGMOOD* dont @ me if u aint catch tha links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShI6axFfqj4 https://i.imgur.com/LKIwWHa.png...
FUCCCCCCCCCCCC IT WE DRUNK AGAIN
WE OUT HERE GEN Z PAINN VIBIN
*#BIGMOOD*
dont @ me if u aint catch tha links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShI6axFfqj4
https://i.imgur.com/LKIwWHa.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhJ_Sv0MlI
ich schlaf'
auf einem Bett
das ich aus Stein
gemacht hab'ich schließe
fest die augen
aber finde keine
Schaffeeinfach nur
das Mädel das
hat mich früher
verlassendann klebt mein arm
in der erde ein
um mich zu
begraben-.
ich hab an
sie gelacht und
sie sieht mich
an mit Hassich hämmert auf'm
Nachttisch
bis ich wurde
aufgewachtdann fragte ich
an Gott warum
ich denke immer
krassHände in die
Taschen, lauf'
alleine auf'm
Strassich möchte kein mehr
Weihnachten,
ob sie nicht an
mir sagt:-.
Schätzi, guten
Morgen und
mich küsste auf'm
HalsJa ich
möchte Kaffee
ja ich lieb' dich
ebenfalls"Liebe macht das
Heim" hat sie auf
unserem Wand
gemaltlustig, dass sie
nicht mehr ruft
mich an oder
mich halt-.
?
i dreamed
of you
with angered eyes,
a gaze that
filled with hatei felt my arm
beat on my dresser
'til i did awakea soft and shaky
soul succumbed to rub
against the gratelife has been for nothing since february eighth.\
6 votes -
The Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish
7 votes -
Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
5 votes -
Who speaks Indonesian, ‘the envy of multilingual world’?
5 votes -
The bang on the head that knocked English out of me
14 votes -
Learning English from the ground up
There was a recent thread on ~talk about which linguistics habits people find annoying, and much to my horror, I have most of those which were mentioned. After thinking about it a little more, I...
There was a recent thread on ~talk about which linguistics habits people find annoying, and much to my horror, I have most of those which were mentioned. After thinking about it a little more, I realized that a lot of these habits were picked up from the media I consume and the people I interact with. I also feel that this problem is exacerbated by my poor knowledge of English grammar.
While I was taught grammar at an elementary level in school, I didn't quite grok it back then, and mostly relied on my instinct, as to what "sounded" right. I have since forgotten most of what I had learnt, and my instinct is failing me - my grammar is atrocious, my punctuation is terrible and I only have auto-correct to thank for my spelling.
I understand that English, like other languages, is constantly evolving. What is wrong now might be right tomorrow. However, I believe that this is no excuse for my shortcomings as there is merit speaking and writing in accordance with what is considered correct in the present day.
I would like to learn English from "first principles", and would greatly appreciate if some users could suggest some books/resources which could help me (bonus points for resources pertaining to British English). Any other suggestions would also be great.
Thanks, and have a nice day.
24 votes -
Scientists chase mystery of how dogs process words
6 votes -
The politicisation of English language proficiency, not poor English itself, creates barriers.
7 votes -
Tsuko G. - The 7th Element (originally by Vitas) (2018)
6 votes -
A very brief history of the Manx language
7 votes -
How the English failed to stamp out the Scots language
7 votes -
Where did the term "86" come from?
3 votes -
Yiddish Language was Invented by Slavo-Iranian Jewish Merchants, Scientists Say
8 votes -
Do you use gender-neutral pronouns? Which one do you prefer?
A series of gender neutral alternatives for the third person singular pronouns (he/she/it) have been proposed throughout the recent years (and maybe decades). I wonder the preferences of fellow...
A series of gender neutral alternatives for the third person singular pronouns (he/she/it) have been proposed throughout the recent years (and maybe decades). I wonder the preferences of fellow users here in that regard. So I'd be glad if you could answer the questions in the title, and maybe elaborate a bit on the reasons of your preference. I'm both interested in this generally, and it could be useful as a means to help me practice quantitative linguistic variation (obviously this would hardly be scientifically usable source of data for actual real research so I'm not asking this for that purposes). I'll add my preference as a comment.
31 votes -
Russian Wikipedia reaches 1,500,000 articles
15 votes -
The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul
4 votes -
Nim: A Programming Language Underdog
19 votes -
‘Cwtch’: What the most famous Welsh-English word reveals about global dialects
5 votes -
Yowza! 300 new words added to Scrabble dictionary
9 votes -
The epic rise and fall of the name Heather
9 votes -
Everyday Dialogues -- Learn Romanian with Nico
7 votes -
Why West Africa’s pidgins deserve full recognition as official languages
7 votes -
Why is Canadian English unique?
19 votes -
Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
15 votes -
Occitan, the language the French forbade
10 votes -
The mysterious origins of punctuation
15 votes -
How the English language became such a mess
11 votes -
The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
15 votes -
Human language may have evolved to help our ancestors make tools
3 votes -
Do colorless ideas sleep furiously?
13 votes -
How did Americans lose their British accents
24 votes -
Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow
8 votes