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October 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
How the French, Religion, and the Bubonic Plague Forced me to Use the Word Y'all
By Brandy Cross
The Death of a Language
By Patricia Syner
And many more interesting articles about language and linguistics available in the Silly Linguistics magazine sillyli.ng/Hk0jCk
By Brandy Cross
The Death of a Language
By Patricia Syner
And many more interesting articles about language and linguistics available in the Silly Linguistics magazine sillyli.ng/Hk0jCk
July 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
How the French, Religion, and the Bubonic Plague Forced me to Use the Word Y'all
By Brandy Cross
The Death of a Language
By Patricia Syner
And many more interesting articles about language and linguistics available in the Silly Linguistics magazine sillyli.ng/Hk0jCk
By Brandy Cross
The Death of a Language
By Patricia Syner
And many more interesting articles about language and linguistics available in the Silly Linguistics magazine sillyli.ng/Hk0jCk
English has borrowed a lot of words from Persian
June 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
English has borrowed a lot of words from Persian
Slang changes all the time. "humbug" used to be quite offensive, on par with calling something "bullshit" or "for f*ck sake"
June 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Slang changes all the time. "humbug" used to be quite offensive, on par with calling something "bullshit" or "for f*ck sake"
Reason 10393 why English spelling is weird
June 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reason 10393 why English spelling is weird
The origin of the word "true" in a few languages. Swedish "sann" is related to "sooth" in English "soothsayer"
May 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The origin of the word "true" in a few languages. Swedish "sann" is related to "sooth" in English "soothsayer"
The story behind names of places and countries is often very interesting
May 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The story behind names of places and countries is often very interesting
Modern English is a tranwreck between the Saxon language (and the language of the Jutes, and the Angles), the Normans and Old Norse (the language of the Vikings)
May 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Modern English is a tranwreck between the Saxon language (and the language of the Jutes, and the Angles), the Normans and Old Norse (the language of the Vikings)
English has borrowed a lot of words from Old Norse, including the word for sky
May 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
English has borrowed a lot of words from Old Norse, including the word for sky
French gets a lot of vocabulary from the Franks (even their name) who were a Germanic tribe and its the Romance language with the most Germanic derived vocabulary
May 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
French gets a lot of vocabulary from the Franks (even their name) who were a Germanic tribe and its the Romance language with the most Germanic derived vocabulary
Spanish and Catalan are both Romance languages and therefore share a lot of vocabulary but they are not always the same
May 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Spanish and Catalan are both Romance languages and therefore share a lot of vocabulary but they are not always the same
"Vielleicht kan ich schreiben Deutsch mit nur Englisch Wörter" or "Maybe I can write German with only English words"
February 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"Vielleicht kan ich schreiben Deutsch mit nur Englisch Wörter" or "Maybe I can write German with only English words"
In English most verbs form their past tense with -ed, such as land, landed. But others form their past tense by changing the vowel such as sit, sat. It would be cooler if more verbs did that
February 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
In English most verbs form their past tense with -ed, such as land, landed. But others form their past tense by changing the vowel such as sit, sat. It would be cooler if more verbs did that
Knowing long, complicated and rarely used word is not the same as knowing a language. Also, in German orthography nouns in a compound are just written together without spaces. In English we do use spaces but a compound noun would have the same meaning as the corresponding German noun with spaces
February 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Knowing long, complicated and rarely used word is not the same as knowing a language. Also, in German orthography nouns in a compound are just written together without spaces. In English we do use spaces but a compound noun would have the same meaning as the corresponding German noun with spaces
Who here learns in the moment German? I think that German very fun is
February 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Who here learns in the moment German? I think that German very fun is
English is what is called stress timed which means that the timing of the words depends on the stress on those words. Japanese words are combinations of only about 100 possible syllables and they all are given equal timing
February 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
English is what is called stress timed which means that the timing of the words depends on the stress on those words. Japanese words are combinations of only about 100 possible syllables and they all are given equal timing
It's so funny learning another language. It reframes everything. You know you know your own language so when you can't understand something you know they had to be mumbling. But if they mumble in another language you think maybe you are just bad at the language. Anyone else had this happen?
February 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
It's so funny learning another language. It reframes everything. You know you know your own language so when you can't understand something you know they had to be mumbling. But if they mumble in another language you think maybe you are just bad at the language. Anyone else had this happen?
Issue #80 is now available. Learn about the language of Moksha of the Uralic family and read a discussion of linguistic illusions. Sometimes language is not all it appears. This and more in the next issue of Silly Linguistics sillyli.ng/Ktcqun
February 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Issue #80 is now available. Learn about the language of Moksha of the Uralic family and read a discussion of linguistic illusions. Sometimes language is not all it appears. This and more in the next issue of Silly Linguistics sillyli.ng/Ktcqun