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The English language explained 1 surfered Jan 24 Monday 10 442
Flammable or Inflammable? And Other Word Pairs That Share a Root 2 usonian Aug 2025 Dec 25 5 1074
color names 5 Lionel Mandrake Sep 2025 Dec 25 4 1133
This links into the 'offbeat Christmas carols' thread 0 chowmama Dec 24 Dec 24 1 426
New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape reading 1 littlemissmartypants Nov 13 Nov 13 2 551
Could dementia be the key to saving endangered Jewish languages? 1 Behind the Aegis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 867
Question about translation of a largely US phrase into other languages 4 OneGrassRoot Aug 2025 Sep 2025 0 1209
Proto by Laura Spinney review - how Indo-European languages went global 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1003
Beyond words: Study maps the cognitive force of metaphor 6 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1229
Analysis of more than a century's worth of political speeches challenges theory about how linguistic usage evolves 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 1225
Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family's origins 9 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 37 2621
Learn French with Macron 0 BeyondGeography Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1321
Code language! 2 pbmus May 2025 Jun 2025 3 1397
Would you give an ewt an ickname? 0 sl8 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1368
Polari, the secret gay language: 7 words we still use & 6 we should bring back 0 Behind the Aegis May 2025 May 2025 0 1277
re...publican 0 multigraincracker Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 1380
Stop Saying Nihao All the Time! The 5 Ways How Real Chinese Say Hello 0 YoshidaYui Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1602
Bonobos communicate using a universal principle of human languages 1 cbabe Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1734
100 years after its founding, can a Yiddish institute serve a people who don't speak the language? 2 Behind the Aegis Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1635
may/might 1 Lionel Mandrake Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1867
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. You all may be familiar with it, but I just 6 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 2189
Registration now open for the Yiddish summer program in Paris 1 Behind the Aegis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1746
TOP15 Basic Japanese verbs🇯🇵にほんご(Nihongo)🌸 Beginner (watch on YOUTUBE) 0 YoshidaYui Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 1667
Cats outperform babies in word association game 0 cbabe Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1954
Small breakthrough in my studying Japanese 7 TDale313 Nov 2021 Nov 2024 9 6338
Latin Question 2 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2024 Nov 2024 1 2083
The First Use of OMG... 7 littlemissmartypants Nov 2024 Nov 2024 33 4511
Secret languages of pirates, women, gay men and more: how modern codebreakers are unlocking hidden words from the past 4 usonian Nov 2024 Nov 2024 9 2410
Belittle: Thomas Jefferson First Used This Word 2 sl8 Oct 2024 Oct 2024 7 2100
Unparalleled Misalignments 1 sl8 Oct 2024 Oct 2024 10 2270

Languages and Linguistics Continued...

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Christian pastor warns that Duolingo has been "infiltrated" by gay people 2 Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 Oct 2024 3 7471
Online Mandarin Chinese Class 1 TuxedoKat Sep 2024 Sep 2024 0 2088
Good evening, DU Fam, I have a question about ONE of the languages I'm learning that I can't figure out to 5 The_REAL_Ecumenist Jun 2024 Jul 2024 5 3747
Pronunciation of articles in English 3 Lionel Mandrake Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 2288
The BBC accent 5 BootinUp Oct 2022 Jul 2024 4 3530
Study of polyglots offers insight on brain's language processing 5 Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 Jul 2024 11 3737
Gaslighting is a specific thing. 2 SarahD Jun 2024 Jul 2024 4 2565
How Yiddish became a 'foreign language' in Israel despite being spoken there since the 1400s 2 Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 Jun 2024 6 4520
Korean vs Japanese vs Chinese Languages! Can They Understand Each Other?! 3 soryang Oct 2023 Jun 2024 7 5055
Amid rising antisemitism, the vivid language of Yiddish makes a comeback 2 Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 May 2024 2 3539
Who gets to be called Mister President? 8 SarahD Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 4267
Why some people lose their accents but others don't - linguistic expert 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 Apr 2024 6 2945
The Differences Between Regional Southern Accents, According To A Linguist 5 Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 3864
An appreciation of a uniquely American language: Spanglish 2 Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 3072
African American English, Black ASL are stigmatized. Experts say they deserve recognition 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 2942
Conservatives use language as a weapon... 4 ihaveaquestion Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 4213
Oiche Nollaig Shona Duit!!! 1 chowmama Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 2185
"Romanes Eunt Domus" Explained 1 Kennah Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 2554
Why the future might not be where you think it is 2 cbabe Nov 2023 Nov 2023 6 4903
Why isn't "Xi Jinping" spelled phonetically, as "She Jinping"? 7 raccoon Oct 2023 Nov 2023 0 5368
Regarding gender of words in other languages 6 TxGuitar Oct 2023 Nov 2023 2 3712
'Latinx': Why do many Hispanics hate the term? 22 Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 Sep 2023 6 8145
What's Wrong with Korean Language Education Overseas 2 soryang Aug 2023 Aug 2023 0 4578
This message was self-deleted by its author 11 stuck in the middle Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 3818
Africa's linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism 2 Behind the Aegis Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 4460
Jews have their own creole language -- in the middle of the Caribbean 0 Behind the Aegis Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 4501
Anyone heard the expression "be the Jesus" used? 9 raccoon May 2023 May 2023 1 5469
Can Modern English Speakers Understand Old English? Language Challenge Feat. Eadwine 5 YoshidaYui May 2023 May 2023 14 7450
Can Modern English Speakers Understand Old English? Language Challenge Feat. Eadwine 0 YoshidaYui May 2023 May 2023 0 3637
Now translated into 49 Jewish languages: the Jewish spring ritual of counting the Omer 1 Behind the Aegis Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 6145

Languages and Linguistics Continued...

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5 Jewish Languages You Didn't Know Existed 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 3313
Spanish vs Chavacano - Can They Understand Each Other!? 1 YoshidaYui Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 4251
My phonological English bucket list: item #1 "Buttigieg" 3 Tetrachloride Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 5119
What are your favorite non-English words? 23 Recursion May 2013 Mar 2023 6 13624
Otsukaresama desu - The magic word in Japanese 1 yuiyoshida Oct 2019 Mar 2023 1 6057
Classroom vs IRL: Spanish 2nd Person 9 Montauk6 Jul 2022 Dec 2022 0 6674
Hand of Irulegi: ancient Spanish artefact rewrites history of Basque language 3 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2022 Dec 2022 15 6852
Do German speaking people still use the title Fraulein"? 3 raccoon Nov 2022 Nov 2022 0 6839
Magnificent Linguistic Family Tree Shows How all Languages are Related. 19 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 28 9600
Analysis: How Indigenous languages can be preserved, and why those efforts help revitalize culture 1 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 5604
The languages that live forever 2 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 4877
What sort of Yiddish did Jews in Hungary speak? 6 Behind the Aegis Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 6940
I wonder about the evolution of words for technology 3 Marthe48 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 2 5815
Is Japanese Katakana Derived from Korean Kwukyel? 3 soryang Jul 2022 Jul 2022 0 5786
"Dead As A Doornail" Idiom Definition And Origin 4 sl8 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 12 6496
More early recordings of the Korean language 2 soryang Apr 2022 Apr 2022 2 4740
Duolingo: Standing with Ukraine: a message from the CEO 2 Behind the Aegis Mar 2022 Mar 2022 8 6915
Dr Peterson- How to Speak (Korean) Authentically 1 soryang Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 3809
A site some of you might enjoy---BBC News Pidgin 1 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 5322
So, yeah... I've started trying to learn some Japanese 38 TDale313 Nov 2021 Jan 2022 13 14059
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