Babel Lecture 2022 with Stephen Fry: 'What we have here is a failure to communicate' (17/06/22)
8
votes
Showing only topics in ~humanities.languages with the tag "videos".
Back to normal view /
Search all groups
-
-
Where does punctuation come from?!
15 votes -
Debunking the myth of Hollywood's "fake" transatlantic accent
35 votes -
The origin of every European country's name
13 votes -
The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
14 votes -
The endangered languages of New York
16 votes -
shī shì shí shī shǐ - Story of Stone Grotto Poet
14 votes -
There's a better English alphabet
8 votes -
Thunderplump: Ten weird and wonderful words with Susie Dent
5 votes -
The mysterious case of the "lost positive"
8 votes -
Does the language you speak change how you think?
42 votes -
There’dn’t’ve
53 votes -
How languages steal words from each other
10 votes -
Tuna chewing: Why some say "chube" and some say "toob"
19 votes -
A very interesting video on the phonetics of English regional accents, spoken by a polyglot in the accents
22 votes -
A brief overview of Shibboleths, including their use during WW2
9 votes -
Are you getting these phrases wrong too? ("Egg corns")
18 votes -
White guy speaks perfect Japanese from watching anime. Here's how he did it.
18 votes -
I improved the alphabet
23 votes -
This sound, the soft D, only exists in one language: Danish
9 votes -
Shaka, When the Walls Fell - ChatGPT tries to speak a contextual minimalist conlang
5 votes -
Anglish: English without the 'foreign' bits
6 votes -
The many weird plural forms of English
4 votes -
How the French Foreign Legion learns languages fast
9 votes -
The etymologies of military ranks
7 votes -
What's the point of grammatical gender?
9 votes -
The six villains of language learning
6 votes -
How Mormon missionaries learn new languages in 6-9 weeks
7 votes -
A very quick lesson on the southern accent
5 votes -
Dead as a doornail
3 votes -
Grammarly's predatory model and cultural biases
10 votes -
Why is the shape (❤) called a heart? And why is biological heart called a heart as well?
4 votes -
How many languages are there?
5 votes -
Why we say "OK"
7 votes -
What is the meaning of "Cheeki Breeki"?
3 votes -
Conlang Critic: Toki Pona
9 votes -
Conlang Critic: Lingwa de Planeta
4 votes -
Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"?
14 votes -
I asked 64,182 people about “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's what I found out
13 votes -
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
9 votes -
Ə: The most common vowel sound in English
14 votes -
Abso-bloody-lutely: Expletive infixation
9 votes -
How Bernie Sanders answers a question
23 votes -
Appalachian English
6 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 -
The language sounds that could exist, but don't
18 votes -
My first conlang - How not to make a language
10 votes