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Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
4+ hour, 44+ min ago (1516+ words) Tales of love and adventure from 1, 000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness". But why did they die out in the first place? Which word would…...
scar Andreu: I believe language is the most powerful thing we will give our children
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (523+ words) The subtitle says you've found the formula to save the language. Spoiler? Junyent said that "Catalan depends on you" but it also depends on those above, if we consider the current sociolinguistic and political conditions. I'm thinking about the 25% of…...
scar Andreu: "I believe that language is the most powerful thing we will give our children"
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (464+ words) The subtitle says you've stumbled upon the formula to save the language. Spoiler? " There are two rules you must keep in mind: with one you must be solid, you must speak the language, you must not take a step back,…...
Can You Pass This 518 Pronunciation Test Without Embarrassing Yourself?
21+ hour, 28+ min ago (199+ words) We're lucky to call Upstate New York home'especially here in the Capital Region, where every town, city, village, and hamlet has its own personality. But let's be honest" they also have their own way of being said. If you've lived…...
American in the UK says family 'horrified' over way he pronounces 2 words now
22+ hour, 46+ min ago (381+ words) An American man has confessed that British culture is influencing his vocabulary, based on two words he's adopted during his travels across the Atlantic. Kalani Smith has spent a considerable period of time in recent years exploring the UK and…...
Linguigenetic Theory (LEIT): Language as an Epigenetic Environment
1+ day, 35+ min ago (780+ words) When people say "it runs in the family," they usually mean biology. Genes. Brain chemistry. A dark lottery ticket you didn't consent to buying. But families don't only pass down bodies. They pass down climates. The tone of a household....
Academia Sinica - Events | Modals in Action: Imperatives and Performative Modals in Chinese
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (209+ words) sinica. edu. tw Room519, 5th floor, HSSB, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica Associate Research Fellow Wei-wen Roger LIAO 2026-04-27 10: 00 - 12: 00 Two competing approaches to the syntax'semantics of imperatives have been proposed. The minimal view treats imperatives as properties at the level of semantics and…...
Indigenous students celebrate native languages, culture during Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (205+ words) Norman Transcript A student performs during the 9th to 12th grade Individual Spoken Prayer category during the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair April 7. Daposka Ahnkodapi Elementary students perform "Osage Time Travel" during the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair April 7. Nearly…...
What constitutes language - and what doesn't
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (151+ words) What do we mean when we talk about language? And how do we differentiate ourselves from animals and plants " and from artificial intelligence? A linguist, a biologist and a digital humanities researcher provide answers. "Trees don't use chemical signals to…...
Universal language patterns found around the world
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (275+ words) Particular attention was paid to word order and ways grammatical relations are expressed within a sentence. It turned out that certain patterns, such as the placement of the verb relative to the object or methods for marking syntactic connections, are…...