Conlang Critic: Lingwa de Planeta
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Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"?
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The subtle linguistics of polite white supremacy
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Samfundssind – A word buried in the history books helped Danes mobilise during the pandemic, flattening the curve and lifting community spirit
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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Ə: The most common vowel sound in English
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Abso-bloody-lutely: Expletive infixation
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
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Why I'm possessive about apostrophes
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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The language sounds that could exist, but don't
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The birth of the semicolon
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Why are there so many different types of “R”?
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Anyone here into conlanging?
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently...
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently working on a Slavic language in Belarus and Ukraine for fun. Anyone else into this stuff or wanna know more about conlanging in general?
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Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
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Language wars: The nineteen greatest linguistic spats of all time
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Guam starts new effort to save dying CHamoru language
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Lets get rid of the apostrophe
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The mysterious origins of punctuation
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Punctuation that failed to make its mark
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A debate over the word for ‘grandmother’ in China exposes a linguistic and political rift
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Koko, the beloved gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died
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