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📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)!
📚 A year's subscription!
📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book!
📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! You could win publication in Babel (Spring 2026)!
📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
🏆 Previous winner Dong Hyun Kang looks at wars on language: babelzine.co.uk/ArticlePDFs/...
📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
🏆 Previous winner Dong Hyun Kang looks at wars on language: babelzine.co.uk/ArticlePDFs/...
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! You could win publication in Babel (Spring 2026)!
📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
🏆 Previous winner Dong Hyun Kang looks at wars on language: babelzine.co.uk/ArticlePDFs/...
📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
🏆 Previous winner Dong Hyun Kang looks at wars on language: babelzine.co.uk/ArticlePDFs/...
✍️ Babel's Young Writers' Competition! Win publication and a year's subscription!
🏆 Here's inspiration from previous winner James Akka: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
🏆 Here's inspiration from previous winner James Akka: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
✍️ Babel's Young Writers' Competition! Win publication and a year's subscription!
🏆 Here's inspiration from previous winner James Akka: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
🏆 Here's inspiration from previous winner James Akka: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf
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🗺️ We are seeking linguists to tell our readers all about unusual or lesser-known languages
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
✍️ Write for Babel!
🗺️ We are seeking linguists to tell our readers all about unusual or lesser-known languages
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🗺️ We are seeking linguists to tell our readers all about unusual or lesser-known languages
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
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Good times and surprisingly many good laughs at last night's @babelzine.bsky.social lecture by John Vice OBE, richly illustrated with video excerpts from all your favourite Parliaments (including French, German, Swiss, Australian alongside good old Commons and Lords). Thank you Babel and Kent uni!
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Good times and surprisingly many good laughs at last night's @babelzine.bsky.social lecture by John Vice OBE, richly illustrated with video excerpts from all your favourite Parliaments (including French, German, Swiss, Australian alongside good old Commons and Lords). Thank you Babel and Kent uni!
📣 Tonight! The Babel Lecture 2025!
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @unikentlive, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🎥 We hope to share a recording online soon...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @unikentlive, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🎥 We hope to share a recording online soon...
October 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
📣 Tonight! The Babel Lecture 2025!
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @unikentlive, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🎥 We hope to share a recording online soon...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @unikentlive, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🎥 We hope to share a recording online soon...
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If you're in Kent: this is tomorrow! It's free, open to all, and will be really interesting. Lots of stories from the editor of the House of Lords Hansard. You need to book your free ticket at the link. @babelzine.bsky.social #linguistics
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
The Babel Lecture 2025 - John Vice
Booking page for the Babel Lecture 2025, with John Vice.
www.kent.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
If you're in Kent: this is tomorrow! It's free, open to all, and will be really interesting. Lots of stories from the editor of the House of Lords Hansard. You need to book your free ticket at the link. @babelzine.bsky.social #linguistics
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🎞️ Fancy writing a linguist's film review for Babel?
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎞️ Fancy writing a linguist's film review for Babel?
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win...
📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)!
📚 A year's subscription!
📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book!
📖 Read previous winner Benjamin Hong on whistled languages at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)!
📚 A year's subscription!
📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book!
📖 Read previous winner Benjamin Hong on whistled languages at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
October 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win...
📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)!
📚 A year's subscription!
📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book!
📖 Read previous winner Benjamin Hong on whistled languages at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)!
📚 A year's subscription!
📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book!
📖 Read previous winner Benjamin Hong on whistled languages at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
✍️ Write a book review for Babel!
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
✍️ Write a book review for Babel!
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 1 week to go!
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @unikent.bsky.social, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seats at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @unikent.bsky.social, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seats at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 1 week to go!
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @unikent.bsky.social, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seats at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @unikent.bsky.social, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seats at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🌎 Happy Novel Week!
📖 Read Babel's Dan McIntyre on the life and work of J R R Tolkien: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Read Babel's Dan McIntyre on the life and work of J R R Tolkien: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🌎 Happy Novel Week!
📖 Read Babel's Dan McIntyre on the life and work of J R R Tolkien: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Read Babel's Dan McIntyre on the life and work of J R R Tolkien: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📆 2 weeks to go! Join us
@unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard
🎟️ Book your free seats at:
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🖥️ Watch this space for livestream details
@unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard
🎟️ Book your free seats at:
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🖥️ Watch this space for livestream details
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
📆 2 weeks to go! Join us
@unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard
🎟️ Book your free seats at:
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🖥️ Watch this space for livestream details
@unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard
🎟️ Book your free seats at:
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🖥️ Watch this space for livestream details
📖 Happy World Novel Week 2025!
👀 Mary Ann Walter reviews @susiedent.com's Guilty by Definition, and takes a look at other linguistics-y crime fiction
🔗 babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
👀 Mary Ann Walter reviews @susiedent.com's Guilty by Definition, and takes a look at other linguistics-y crime fiction
🔗 babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
October 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
📖 Happy World Novel Week 2025!
👀 Mary Ann Walter reviews @susiedent.com's Guilty by Definition, and takes a look at other linguistics-y crime fiction
🔗 babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
👀 Mary Ann Walter reviews @susiedent.com's Guilty by Definition, and takes a look at other linguistics-y crime fiction
🔗 babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Happy World Novel Week 2025!
👀 Butteries and wagger-pagger-baggers - read Katie Wales on Charles Dickens and university cant: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
👀 Butteries and wagger-pagger-baggers - read Katie Wales on Charles Dickens and university cant: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
📖 Happy World Novel Week 2025!
👀 Butteries and wagger-pagger-baggers - read Katie Wales on Charles Dickens and university cant: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
👀 Butteries and wagger-pagger-baggers - read Katie Wales on Charles Dickens and university cant: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
✍️ Write a book review for Babel!
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
✍️ Write a book review for Babel!
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
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I also purchased a subscription to @babelzine.bsky.social this week to change a bit of format. Let me know if you have an issue or article you recomend :)
October 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I also purchased a subscription to @babelzine.bsky.social this week to change a bit of format. Let me know if you have an issue or article you recomend :)
📆 The Babel Lecture 2025 - just 3 weeks to go!
Join us @unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard
Book your free seats at:
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
Join us @unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard
Book your free seats at:
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
October 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
📆 The Babel Lecture 2025 - just 3 weeks to go!
Join us @unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard
Book your free seats at:
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
Join us @unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard
Book your free seats at:
www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
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We're hosting this event at @unikent.bsky.social at the end of the month! So excited to hear all the goss about transcribing the House of Lords bickering! It's free and there is wine, so I'm in #linguistics #language
📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We're hosting this event at @unikent.bsky.social at the end of the month! So excited to hear all the goss about transcribing the House of Lords bickering! It's free and there is wine, so I'm in #linguistics #language
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And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere.
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel!
📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere.
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel!
📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
October 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel!
📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
October 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🧑🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...
🗓️ Happy International Translation Day 2025!
📖 To celebrate, read all about a Baltic haven for translators in the latest Babel: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 To celebrate, read all about a Baltic haven for translators in the latest Babel: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
September 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🗓️ Happy International Translation Day 2025!
📖 To celebrate, read all about a Baltic haven for translators in the latest Babel: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 To celebrate, read all about a Baltic haven for translators in the latest Babel: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could be published in Babel
🏆 Here's previous winner Emma Jewell on Romansch: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📜 See pinned post for this year's guidelines
🏆 Here's previous winner Emma Jewell on Romansch: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📜 See pinned post for this year's guidelines
September 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could be published in Babel
🏆 Here's previous winner Emma Jewell on Romansch: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📜 See pinned post for this year's guidelines
🏆 Here's previous winner Emma Jewell on Romansch: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📜 See pinned post for this year's guidelines
📅 A reminder that National Linguistics Day is coming up in November! @linguisticshq.bsky.social
📚 Get a free set of Babels for your school, college or library to celebrate
📧 Contact babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
📚 Get a free set of Babels for your school, college or library to celebrate
📧 Contact babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
📅 A reminder that National Linguistics Day is coming up in November! @linguisticshq.bsky.social
📚 Get a free set of Babels for your school, college or library to celebrate
📧 Contact babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
📚 Get a free set of Babels for your school, college or library to celebrate
📧 Contact babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com
🗓️ Happy International Day of Sign Languages!
📖 In Babel No4, Kateryna Pavlyuk points out that BSL is "an independent method of communication, in no way inferior to spoken language"
🔗 Read in full at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 In Babel No4, Kateryna Pavlyuk points out that BSL is "an independent method of communication, in no way inferior to spoken language"
🔗 Read in full at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
September 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
🗓️ Happy International Day of Sign Languages!
📖 In Babel No4, Kateryna Pavlyuk points out that BSL is "an independent method of communication, in no way inferior to spoken language"
🔗 Read in full at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 In Babel No4, Kateryna Pavlyuk points out that BSL is "an independent method of communication, in no way inferior to spoken language"
🔗 Read in full at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...