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Interesting stuff I find about languages, language learning, linguistics, and translation
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How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words. "With half of our 7,000 languages due to disappear this century, linguicide is one of the most pressing cultural emergencies of our age." amzn.to/4pjKPRe
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words. "With half of our 7,000 languages due to disappear this century, linguicide is one of the most pressing cultural emergencies of our age." amzn.to/4pjKPRe
The Atlas of Languages: Words Around the World amzn.to/3K8TW8m
A beautifully illustrated overview of the history of languages around the world, filled with maps, sidebars, and unusual facts that will satisfy curious kids (and language-loving adults)
A beautifully illustrated overview of the history of languages around the world, filled with maps, sidebars, and unusual facts that will satisfy curious kids (and language-loving adults)
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Atlas of Languages: Words Around the World amzn.to/3K8TW8m
A beautifully illustrated overview of the history of languages around the world, filled with maps, sidebars, and unusual facts that will satisfy curious kids (and language-loving adults)
A beautifully illustrated overview of the history of languages around the world, filled with maps, sidebars, and unusual facts that will satisfy curious kids (and language-loving adults)
New: E Pluribus English: The Many Languages We Speak When We Speak English amzn.to/3LIgmOr
E Pluribus English: The Many Languages We Speak When We Speak English
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November 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New: E Pluribus English: The Many Languages We Speak When We Speak English amzn.to/3LIgmOr
The book Little Brother (amzn.to/42Uj6LW) (full of contemporary slang – see sample) has been translated into both Standard Esperanto (amzn.to/41AWuyI) and a gender-neutral version (amzn.to/42AYA3d) (ex. frato changed to sibo (sibling)). #Esperanto
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The book Little Brother (amzn.to/42Uj6LW) (full of contemporary slang – see sample) has been translated into both Standard Esperanto (amzn.to/41AWuyI) and a gender-neutral version (amzn.to/42AYA3d) (ex. frato changed to sibo (sibling)). #Esperanto
Now with over 5000 human-created books and resources! LanguageCrawler's Language Learning Bookstore: Curated books and podcasts to learn over 250 languages: www.amazon.com/shop/languag...
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Now with over 5000 human-created books and resources! LanguageCrawler's Language Learning Bookstore: Curated books and podcasts to learn over 250 languages: www.amazon.com/shop/languag...
The Race to Save the World's Vanishing Languages
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Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late?
theatlantic.com/sponsored/go...
Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late?
The Race to Save the World's Vanishing Languages
Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late...
theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Race to Save the World's Vanishing Languages
theatlantic.com/sponsored/go...
Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late?
theatlantic.com/sponsored/go...
Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late?
Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language
New database built with over 100,000 Arapaho sentences. www.popsci.com/science/ling...
New database built with over 100,000 Arapaho sentences. www.popsci.com/science/ling...
Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language
New database built with over 100,000 Arapaho sentences.
www.popsci.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language
New database built with over 100,000 Arapaho sentences. www.popsci.com/science/ling...
New database built with over 100,000 Arapaho sentences. www.popsci.com/science/ling...
Linguist's Tapes Transform Indigenous Language Study
www.miragenews.com/linguists-ta...
"Her mother had amassed a vast collection of notes and recordings beginning in 1959 that chronicled three of the seven distinct Pomoan languages."
www.miragenews.com/linguists-ta...
"Her mother had amassed a vast collection of notes and recordings beginning in 1959 that chronicled three of the seven distinct Pomoan languages."
Linguist's Tapes Transform Indigenous Language Study
Throughout her long career as a linguist, Sally McLendon eagerly anticipated her annual trips to California's Lake County and her conversations with
miragenews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Linguist's Tapes Transform Indigenous Language Study
www.miragenews.com/linguists-ta...
"Her mother had amassed a vast collection of notes and recordings beginning in 1959 that chronicled three of the seven distinct Pomoan languages."
www.miragenews.com/linguists-ta...
"Her mother had amassed a vast collection of notes and recordings beginning in 1959 that chronicled three of the seven distinct Pomoan languages."
ChatGPT broken? Proof that AI is not really intelligent: www.youtube.com/shorts/dbPT0...
I broke ChatGPT
YouTube video by Aaron Goldenberg
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October 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
ChatGPT broken? Proof that AI is not really intelligent: www.youtube.com/shorts/dbPT0...
Finding our talk (26 half hour episodes) about indigenous languages, experiences and revitalization efforts youtu.be/hobQaDFmqJM?...
FOT 1 Episode 1: Mohawk- Language among the Skywalkers
YouTube video by Mushkeg Productions Inc
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September 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Finding our talk (26 half hour episodes) about indigenous languages, experiences and revitalization efforts youtu.be/hobQaDFmqJM?...
In 1860, there was a group of young people who marched and held demonstrations in the streets against injustice to elect Lincoln. This group was known as the wide awakes #wideawakes
Article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw...
There's a book about them too: amzn.to/4mCnOYK
Article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw...
There's a book about them too: amzn.to/4mCnOYK
Wide Awakes - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In 1860, there was a group of young people who marched and held demonstrations in the streets against injustice to elect Lincoln. This group was known as the wide awakes #wideawakes
Article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw...
There's a book about them too: amzn.to/4mCnOYK
Article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw...
There's a book about them too: amzn.to/4mCnOYK
Google Warns of Major Overestimation in AI Translation Benchmarks. Researchers from Google & Boston University have found that even small amounts of contamination in training data can lead to significant overestimation of AI translation performance in large language models slator.com/google-warns...
Google Warns of Major Overestimation in AI Translation Benchmarks
Google and Boston University researchers warn that leaked test data in pretraining can lead to significant overestimation of AI translation performance.
slator.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Google Warns of Major Overestimation in AI Translation Benchmarks. Researchers from Google & Boston University have found that even small amounts of contamination in training data can lead to significant overestimation of AI translation performance in large language models slator.com/google-warns...
What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.
www.newyorker.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Just published: Concise Encyclopedia of Spanish Dialects in the World / Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del español en el mundo, 2 Volume Set. amzn.to/45rPtpo
August 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Just published: Concise Encyclopedia of Spanish Dialects in the World / Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del español en el mundo, 2 Volume Set. amzn.to/45rPtpo
GIGANTIC 1170-page, 8.5" x 11" book jammed packed with Spanish to English vocabulary, including over 100 pages of slang, a grammar section and much more. Link to book: amzn.to/3IBzFqY #spanishvocabulary #learnspanish
August 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
GIGANTIC 1170-page, 8.5" x 11" book jammed packed with Spanish to English vocabulary, including over 100 pages of slang, a grammar section and much more. Link to book: amzn.to/3IBzFqY #spanishvocabulary #learnspanish
One voice can shift the world!
June 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
One voice can shift the world!
2025 Goals Unlocked!
June 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
2025 Goals Unlocked!
How translators can be "AI Resilient". A French to English translator for 15 years, he wrote this book about how to "Thrive, Charge More, and Stay Irreplaceable in the Age of AI": amzn.to/4nd6SZL
Click Read Sample under the cover image for a long free preview #translation
Click Read Sample under the cover image for a long free preview #translation
June 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
How translators can be "AI Resilient". A French to English translator for 15 years, he wrote this book about how to "Thrive, Charge More, and Stay Irreplaceable in the Age of AI": amzn.to/4nd6SZL
Click Read Sample under the cover image for a long free preview #translation
Click Read Sample under the cover image for a long free preview #translation
Immigrant Tongues: Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us: amzn.to/44rxvCH
"Patrick Foote’s Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world.
"Patrick Foote’s Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world.
June 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Immigrant Tongues: Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us: amzn.to/44rxvCH
"Patrick Foote’s Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world.
"Patrick Foote’s Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world.
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture amzn.to/4mlEEM5 What if the word “homosexual” was never meant to be in the Bible? This feature documentary follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible.
Watch 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture | Prime Video
1946 is a feature documentary that follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible. It chronicles the discovery of never-before-seen archives at Yale University which unveil astonishing new revelations, and casts significant doubt on any biblical basis for LGBTQIA+ prejudice.
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May 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture amzn.to/4mlEEM5 What if the word “homosexual” was never meant to be in the Bible? This feature documentary follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible.
Language Differences Control Your Brain’s Sentence-Prediction Habits. The brain’s response to information depends on language’s grammatical structure
www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...
May 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Language Differences Control Your Brain’s Sentence-Prediction Habits. The brain’s response to information depends on language’s grammatical structure
www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...
Excited about this new grocery store where I can purchase my ogarnic onarges and nabanas
April 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Excited about this new grocery store where I can purchase my ogarnic onarges and nabanas
"An elder spoke of a prophecy and of the fate of the Haida language - she said that when these people came we would forget how to speak our own language... People would giggle because we couldn't imagine that we would forget to speak our own language." www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzVw...
First Haida language film offers rare, powerful glimpse of Haida people
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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March 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"An elder spoke of a prophecy and of the fate of the Haida language - she said that when these people came we would forget how to speak our own language... People would giggle because we couldn't imagine that we would forget to speak our own language." www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzVw...
This is so awful!
Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
www.axios.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is so awful!
Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...