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"Dead As A Doornail" Idiom Definition And Origin 4 sl8 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 12 6102
"Romanes Eunt Domus" Explained 1 Kennah Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 2301
"Thank you" in more than 465 languages 0 vkkv Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 2943
'hijastro' & 'filiaster' 1 Lionel Mandrake Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2951
'Latinx': Why do many Hispanics hate the term? 22 Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 Sep 2023 6 6796
100 verbs to survive in JAPAN! (Essential verbs in a day) 0 YoshidaYui Jun 2021 Jun 2021 1 5235
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 1376
1400 Japanese Vocab & Phrase 3 hr Audiobook (BasicIntermediate) 0 yuiyoshida Apr 2020 Apr 2020 1 2210
350 Phrases Every Japanese Beginner Must Know 5 yuiyoshida Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 4800
5 Jewish Languages You Didn't Know Existed 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 3065
A Brief History of British and Irish Languages 4 ashling Mar 2019 Jul 2019 19 3646
A Collection Of Curious Words From The Welsh Language 0 geardaddy Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 3159
A comprehensive website of cliches (though I prefer to call them idioms) 1 ailsagirl Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 3027
A huge map of American English Dialects 5 Odin2005 Jan 2012 Jul 2012 5 5116
A neat site for translations 4 Behind the Aegis Jul 2013 May 2020 1 6313
A question about the ellipsis 13 PJMcK Aug 2020 Aug 2020 2 5392
A site some of you might enjoy---BBC News Pidgin 1 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 5040
Africa's linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism 2 Behind the Aegis Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 4165
African American English, Black ASL are stigmatized. Experts say they deserve recognition 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 2655
Agnotology 4 littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 Sep 2019 8 2627
Akron-born YouTube star and speaker of many languages dies 1 soryang Apr 2021 Apr 2021 9 11459
Alaska's indigenous languages now official along with English 3 geardaddy Oct 2014 Oct 2014 11 3478
Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B 3 geardaddy Jul 2014 Dec 2014 8 3418
American Boys Pretending to Not Speak Korean ( Actually Fluent ) - Prank - [ Sean Pablo ] 8 yuiyoshida Dec 2020 Dec 2020 1 8712
Amid rising antisemitism, the vivid language of Yiddish makes a comeback 2 Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 May 2024 2 3226
An appreciation of a uniquely American language: Spanglish 2 Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 2777
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 1008
Analysis: How Indigenous languages can be preserved, and why those efforts help revitalize culture 1 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 5343
Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family's origins 9 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 37 2204
Any recommendations for jump starting French 9 bucolic_frolic Apr 2020 Jun 2020 0 6764

Languages and Linguistics Continued...

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Anyone heard the expression "be the Jesus" used? 9 raccoon May 2023 May 2023 1 4897
Ask me anything -- 30 days of unbridled fun! 3 Speck Tater Dec 2012 Jan 2013 0 3625
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners 2 RZM Jan 2012 Sep 2012 0 3601
Belittle: Thomas Jefferson First Used This Word 2 sl8 Oct 2024 Oct 2024 7 1814
Beyond words: Study maps the cognitive force of metaphor 6 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 930
Bonobos communicate using a universal principle of human languages 1 cbabe Apr 2025 Apr 2025 12 1497
Calling Yourself Humbled Doesnt Sound as Humble as It Used To 2 Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 Feb 2017 4 3738
Can any suggest American TV shows that I can watch which are 3 phylny Jan 2021 Jan 2021 0 6757
Can anyone explain the syntax of "I saw it happen"? 12 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 7326
Can Modern English Speakers Understand Old English? Language Challenge Feat. Eadwine 0 YoshidaYui May 2023 May 2023 0 3428
Can Modern English Speakers Understand Old English? Language Challenge Feat. Eadwine 5 YoshidaYui May 2023 May 2023 14 7030
Cats outperform babies in word association game 0 cbabe Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1718
Christian pastor warns that Duolingo has been "infiltrated" by gay people 2 Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 Oct 2024 3 7180
Classroom vs IRL: Spanish 2nd Person 9 Montauk6 Jul 2022 Dec 2022 0 5945
Code language! 2 pbmus May 2025 Jun 2025 3 1166
color names 4 Lionel Mandrake Sep 21 Sep 22 4 825
Conservatives use language as a weapon... 4 ihaveaquestion Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 3859
Cool website thats helpful 2 AsahinaKimi Jul 2012 Jul 2012 1 3910
Could dementia be the key to saving endangered Jewish languages? 1 Behind the Aegis Oct 13 Oct 13 13 634
Crossing Divides: Two Koreas divided by a fractured language 5 soryang Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 6392
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. You all may be familiar with it, but I just 6 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1835
Digital tools 'to save languages' 1 Starboard Tack Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 3121
Do German speaking people still use the title Fraulein"? 3 raccoon Nov 2022 Nov 2022 0 6515
DO NOT SAY 'I think...' - say THIS instead - 21 more advanced alternative phrases 6 yuiyoshida Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 3253
Does anybody know how come English retained some irregular plurals (feet, mice, oxen, children, 8 raccoon Feb 2012 Aug 2014 0 6907
Does anyone here speak Croatian/Serbian? 8 whathehell Apr 2012 Sep 2012 1 6547
Does redundancy constitute bad grammar? 38 Lionel Mandrake Jul 2017 Apr 2019 0 11687
Dr Peterson- How to Speak (Korean) Authentically 1 soryang Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 3547
DuoLingo app! 3 yuiyoshida May 2020 Sep 2020 0 3966
Duolingo: Standing with Ukraine: a message from the CEO 2 Behind the Aegis Mar 2022 Mar 2022 8 6557

Languages and Linguistics Continued...

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Early recording of Korean from the Sorbonne 2 soryang Dec 2020 Dec 2020 2 4232
Easter Island Tablets Finally Deciphered 4 Anonymousecoview Apr 2013 Apr 2013 0 3806
English must be so confusing to ESL people - where is the 'g' in anxiety? 28 bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 Mar 2021 2 8063
expressing feelings in Japanese 7 yuiyoshida Jun 2019 Jul 2019 1 3129
F-bombs notwithstanding, all languages skew toward happiness: Universal human bias f/ positive words 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2397
Fascinating subject 3 Starboard Tack Dec 2011 Jan 2012 0 3603
Finally decided on a third language... Turkish 4 prodigitalson Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 4934
First Thread! 5 The Philosopher Dec 2011 Sep 2012 2 6226
Flammable or Inflammable? And Other Word Pairs That Share a Root 0 usonian Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 816
French is becoming a polysythetic language?!?!?!? 6 Odin2005 Mar 2012 Dec 2012 1 9484
From Judeo-Greek to Karaim, Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive 0 Behind the Aegis Oct 2021 Oct 2021 2 4045
From the Guardian: Don't neglect the UK's indigenous languages 3 geardaddy Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 3788
Gaslighting is a specific thing. 2 SarahD Jun 2024 Jul 2024 4 2258
German lumpers and splitters 5 Lionel Mandrake Oct 2021 Nov 2021 1 3169
Getting over the feeling that Yiddish is just for old folks 4 Behind the Aegis Nov 2021 Jan 2022 4 5751
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 3377
Google sets out to save dying languages 1 AsahinaKimi Jun 2012 Jun 2012 1 3460
Group Host 8 The Philosopher Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 4948
Hand of Irulegi: ancient Spanish artefact rewrites history of Basque language 3 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2022 Dec 2022 15 6525
Has anyone gone to an immersion school? 10 Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2012 Sep 2018 1 6343
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