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11 votes
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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.
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 -
The language sounds that could exist, but don't
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Wolof: A language of West Africa
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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 -
Americanisms the British public can't bloody stand
14 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
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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 -
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?
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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…
6 votes -
How Cape Town’s “Gayle” has endured – and been adopted by straight people
3 votes -
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
11 votes -
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
7 votes -
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?)
13 votes -
The Anger of Achilles
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How British Sign Language developed its own dialects
4 votes -
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
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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