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12 votes
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Study uncovers unusual method of communicating human concept of time
10 votes -
The birth of the semicolon
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Why are there so many different types of “R”?
9 votes -
Border collie trained to recognize 1,022 nouns dies
11 votes -
Study finds positive bias in human languages
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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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"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
12 votes -
Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
38 votes -
How language governs our perceptions of gender
3 votes -
Why certain words are left out of our English Bibles
7 votes -
Language wars: The nineteen greatest linguistic spats of all time
10 votes -
Has “Homosexual” always been in the Bible?
9 votes -
X is for…
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How Cape Town’s “Gayle” has endured – and been adopted by straight people
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Esperanto superfans won’t rest until they’ve achieved world domination
14 votes -
The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
18 votes -
Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research
8 votes -
Why is English spelling so damn weird?
8 votes -
10 things I learned about ancient China from studying Chinese characters
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Behemoth, bully, thief: How the English language is taking over the planet
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Evolution: How the theory is inspiring a new way of understanding language
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
6 votes -
Dictionaries recently added more than 1,500 words. Here are some new entries.
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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Guam starts new effort to save dying CHamoru language
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New place names lift Māori culture in New Zealand’s capital
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The more names change, the more they sound the same
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Linguists found the weirdest languages – and English is one of them
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Weekly Language Exchange Thread, Week 2019-W15 (experimental)
It is Wednesday, my dudes! So why not have some good old foreign-language practice? As an experiment, let's try just that. Start a thread in a language you would like to practice or teach, or...
It is Wednesday, my dudes! So why not have some good old foreign-language practice? As an
experiment, let's try just that. Start a thread in a language you would like to practice or teach,
or reply to an existing one. E.g.## German / Deutsch Hier sprechen wir Deutsch! Wie geht es Ihnen?
If you want to fix someone's grammar and also reply to them in the same message, I would recommend
using a horizontal ruler with “* * *”. E.g.:I think “sich” should be “ihm”. * * * Es tut mir Leid, dass es ihm so schlecht geht.
11 votes -
What is the ‘-ling’ in darling? (And what is the ‘dar-’ for that matter?)
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The Anger of Achilles
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How British Sign Language developed its own dialects
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Learn German with an interactive fantasy adventure story
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Oi! We’re not lazy yarners, so let’s kill the cringe and love our Aussie accent(s).
5 votes -
Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration
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Are you a purist or evolutionist? What your language 'pet peeve' reveals about you
6 votes -
The art of biblical translation, part two: Modern translators and their tin-ear to the literature of the Hebrew Bible
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Trying to switch from Literature to Linguistics: similar experience and/or advices?
Hi! I've recently graduated as a BA of Italian philology. But I am interested in pursuing my further studies and academical career in linguistics, studying language contact and linguistic strata...
Hi! I've recently graduated as a BA of Italian philology. But I am interested in pursuing my further studies and academical career in linguistics, studying language contact and linguistic strata in particular. I was wondering if anybody took a similar path and am interested in advice from such folks and also any other humanists here. I'm studying some online material and will try to partecipate in some local university's linguistics BA as a visiting student (I guess it's called a freemover in English) if I can find an affordable option. Also I have found out recommended reading material from local universities I'm interested in and some papers about my field. Do you know of any useful resources for making the transition smoother? What has been you experience if you've taken a similar path to your studies? Thanks in advance!
6 votes -
The art of biblical translation, part one: On the eloquence of the King James Version
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Hearing hate speech primes your brain for hateful actions
11 votes -
Oh or zero? When the evolution of language clashes with linguistic purism
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How Spanish got its ñ - the story behind that "n with a tilde"
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Wikipedia editors have been fighting over corn for at least a decade
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Tildes folks, are you learning another language or multilingual?
pretty straightforward ask. i have some basic, rusty Spanish (on and off learning) and a bit of Esperanto to my name (currently learning) but not much else eventually i want to speak French...
pretty straightforward ask. i have some basic, rusty Spanish (on and off learning) and a bit of Esperanto to my name (currently learning) but not much else
eventually i want to speak French conversationally since my boyfriend can and i think it'd be neat to converse with him in more than English, but that's a long term goal.
33 votes -
Our increasingly fascist public discourse
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When it comes to learning a foreign language, we tend to think that children are the most adept. But that may not be the case – and there are added benefits to starting as an adult.
9 votes -
Confusion over medicine names threatens lives
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What is the difference between translation and interpreting?
6 votes -
Why White people don't use White emoji: Does shame explain the disparity in the lesser use of light-skin-tone symbols in the US?
18 votes