Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
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How I Learned French in 12 Months
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The term ‘Oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist?
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Appalachian English
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United Nations Guidelines for gender-inclusive language in English
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The History of English Podcast
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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
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Inuit combine nine different Inuktitut scripts in one standard system
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Canada’s Inuit to get unified orthography
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wolof: A Language of West Africa
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‘Like’ isn’t a lazy linguistic filler – the English language snobs need to, like, pipe down
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ADLaM: How a new alphabet is helping an ancient people write its own future
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Americanisms the British public can't bloody stand
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People often complain that English is deteriorating under the influence of new technology, adolescent fads and loose grammar. Why does this nonsensical belief persist?
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Community size matters when people create a new language
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Study uncovers unusual method of communicating human concept of time
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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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Study Finds Positive Bias in Human Languages
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Whistling While They Work: Cooperative Laguna Dolphins Have A Unique Accent
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"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
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Why Do People Say "Jesus H. Christ," and Where Did the "H" Come From?
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How language governs our perceptions of gender
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Why certain words are left out of our English Bibles
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Nuntii Latini, Finland's weekly Latin news broadcast, to end after 30 years
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Language wars: the 19 greatest linguistic spats of all time
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Has “Homosexual” always been in the Bible?
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X is for…
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A dictionary with expressive definitions unlike those anywhere else
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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
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The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
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Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research
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Why Is English Spelling So Damn Weird?
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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.
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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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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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