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11 votes
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Appalachian English
6 votes -
United Nations guidelines for gender-inclusive language in English
16 votes -
Swearing in the Woods
3 votes -
The History of English Podcast
6 votes -
An attempt to name a child after the Devil has won no sympathy from Iceland's official naming committee
12 votes -
The English Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000 articles
21 votes -
A showdown is looming between Spain’s conservative language academy and its newly elected socialist government over proposals to rewrite the nation’s constitution using gender-neutral language
16 votes -
The plant ecology of the Los Angeles River
14 votes -
Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
12 votes -
Tae Kim's guide to learning Japanese
15 votes -
Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
9 votes -
Mad Show Boys - Ja Nie Khodíl Na Karaté (I Didn't Go To The Karate Class) (2011)
4 votes -
What languages do you speak?
I'm always curious to see what languages people speak, especially given that most communication on sites like Tildes happens in English and as such it doesn't always come up. At one point, I was...
I'm always curious to see what languages people speak, especially given that most communication on sites like Tildes happens in English and as such it doesn't always come up.
At one point, I was pretty fluent in Spanish, but it's been about 4ish years since I've used it with any frequency and as such I am very rusty when speaking. I can still read and write it pretty well however. The big thing is that I have trouble these days recalling vocab I knew like the back of my hand... I should read more to stay sharp.
I also took some French in college and can read it at a beginner-intermediate level, basically enough to understand threads on not super complex topics. I can write too, but require a dictionary for anything remotely complex. Speaking I'm shit however - despite having great teachers I always had a tough time with pronunciation.
27 votes -
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
6 votes -
Why I'm possessive about apostrophes
13 votes -
Freddie Gibbs And Madlib: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2019)
8 votes -
Megan Thee Stallion: NPR Tiny Desk Fest (Extended Concert Series) (2019)
5 votes -
Merriam-Webster singles out nonbinary 'they' for word of the year honors
26 votes -
Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
6 votes -
Spirit scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets
6 votes -
A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
8 votes -
Translation and the family of things - A young writer discovers her grandmother’s literary secret
3 votes -
Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi
4 votes -
The most gender-switched names in US history
9 votes -
There was no committee
6 votes -
The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
15 votes -
AnnenMayKantereit - Ozean (2019)
7 votes -
The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
9 votes -
Inuit combine nine different Inuktitut scripts in one standard system
7 votes -
Canada’s Inuit to get unified orthography
9 votes -
Politics and the English language
11 votes -
Interview with one of the developers of Interslavic: the constructed language used in "The Painted Bird" which aims to be mutually intelligible with all Slavic languages.
9 votes -
Survival of the friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break
8 votes -
Merriam-Webster adds sense of ‘they’ as a pronoun for nonbinary people to the dictionary
22 votes -
Pronunciation help - Latin
I'm starting school this coming Monday with the intent on getting a degree in horticulture. My classes include botany and plant identification. Something I struggle with is knowing how to...
I'm starting school this coming Monday with the intent on getting a degree in horticulture. My classes include botany and plant identification. Something I struggle with is knowing how to pronounce words with Latin roots. Not knowing how to pronounce words makes it harder to commit words to memory, which of course makes it more difficult to recall. For example the words Leguminosae / Fabaceae - I know they are legumes, but have no idea how to pronounce it. It makes reading difficult because I find myself skimming. Does anyone have any resources that can help me pronounce the words I am reading.
10 votes -
English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
12 votes -
Brainstorm - Vietier (Wind) (2005)
3 votes -
The language sounds that could exist, but don't
18 votes -
Wolof: A language of West Africa
5 votes -
Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
11 votes -
‘Like’ isn’t a lazy linguistic filler – the English language snobs need to, like, pipe down
13 votes -
Faber - Das Boot Ist Voll (The Boat Is Full) (2019)
5 votes -
The inclusive languages used by the English NHS
10 votes -
Americanisms the British public can't bloody stand
14 votes -
In Iceland I found I couldn't write – but then I started to notice small things
6 votes -
People often complain that English is deteriorating under the influence of new technology, adolescent fads and loose grammar. Why does this nonsensical belief persist?
11 votes -
Community size matters when people create a new language
9 votes -
The ‘warspeak’ permeating everyday language puts us all in the trenches
12 votes -
Study uncovers unusual method of communicating human concept of time
10 votes