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Cursing Across The Centuries 21 May 2013 | 03:20 am
Language, even grammar, in every culture changes constantly, but did you ever consider the idea that our sense of how proper....
Could Texting Save Endangered Languages? 16 May 2013 | 03:34 am
I, and many others, have written about the threat that texting holds for many languages, but could texting actually be saving some rare and endangered languages? Some people say so, I know it seems...
Do Words Keep The Same Meaning Over Thousands Of Years? 11 May 2013 | 05:14 am
Do some words stay in circulation for thousands of years? Even many thousands of years? Some of those who study language...
How Does Our Language Reveal Who We Are? 5 May 2013 | 11:13 pm
How does our language express who we are? Our thoughts, our character, our identity and our deepest motives can become more obvious than we realize as we...
Got Tones? 30 Apr 2013 | 05:12 pm
There are two basic kinds of languages - with only a few exceptions, every language is either tonal or atonal. Many Aisan languages for example use the same phonemes with different tones to define the...
How Do We Talk? 26 Apr 2013 | 12:48 am
Who of us even considers how we speak? We all should, because as well know, on some level at least, how we say something is at least as important as...
Inventing A Language 20 Apr 2013 | 09:50 pm
The primary reason English is such a complicated, difficult, frustrating and yes fascinating and enduring language is that...
More On Code-Switching 15 Apr 2013 | 05:19 pm
Code switching is a term to describe how we shift our tone, vocabulary and grammar when we...
Contronyms - Words With Opposite Meanings 10 Apr 2013 | 04:29 pm
As if English wasn't difficult enough with its arcane and inconsistent spelling rules, word roots from different languages and always-shifting meanings....
Icky And Odd Words 4 Apr 2013 | 05:41 pm
Are there some words that you find confusing? Annoying? Distasteful? Yes, there are some words that we just don't like, or we may not like...
