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- Adventures in the English language; AkaThe YGS thread
Examples of funny and/or annoying mississpellings, and other grammatical errors
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- Words people with different native languages can't pronounce
Let's start with a mistitled Spanish video
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- Is it really important to preserve languages?
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- Gender pronouns - the singular 'they'
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- A lovely lady explaining English accents and dialects.
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- Speaking the f and v sounds was enabled by eating soft foods
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- Arabic Translation
Can anyone translate this Post-it note?
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- Dionysus or Dionysos
Why is Dionysus the more common spelling?
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- The definition of a "mental disorder."
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- The word "altruism"
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- The word "bigot" has lost all validity I think
by Keep It Real » Nov 24, 2017 5:51 pm
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- The verb "to be"
Irregular in every language?
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- Do you accord ?
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- What's with those trendy words and empty fillers?
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- Adverb order
by Thommo » Feb 23, 2016 10:30 am
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- Blogger fired from language school over "homophonia"
Created perception school promoted a "gay agenda"
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- Easy and hard languages to learn
Also, what features are easy and what are hard
by lpetrich » Oct 14, 2013 1:57 am
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- Restroom or bathroom?
Where do you see the man about the dog?
by Veida » Jun 09, 2016 4:19 pm
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- Inuit Words for Snow?
by lpetrich » Feb 02, 2015 8:08 pm
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- Linguistic misconception bingo
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- Are Chomsky's views "dominant" in current linguistics?
Is there any statistical data to assess this claim?
by seeker » Feb 22, 2012 3:51 pm
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- The semantics thread
Discuss word meanings and usages here
by don't get me started » Feb 15, 2016 8:16 am
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Jul 12, 2016 3:39 pm
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- Ways to learn (natural) languages?
by lpetrich » Oct 07, 2015 3:42 am
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- A new development in linguistics
Hitherto unsuspected common features of all languages
by Calilasseia » Aug 03, 2015 9:17 pm
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Sep 30, 2015 10:05 pm
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- Compound words in different languages
by lpetrich » Apr 03, 2015 6:25 pm
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May 21, 2015 10:52 pm
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- Russian and Ukrainian Languages
Or are they dialects of one language?
by lpetrich » Mar 15, 2014 11:36 am
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Mar 22, 2015 12:17 am
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- Name that accent
by scott1328 » Mar 20, 2015 1:46 am
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- How can we entirely eliminate gendered pronouns?
A discussion concerning replacing gendered pronouns with gender-neutral pronouns
by Jake » Oct 02, 2014 4:55 am
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- Theories of the Origin of Language
Whimsical names
by lpetrich » Aug 20, 2014 3:51 pm
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Aug 20, 2014 3:51 pm
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- The Evolution of Language
by kennyc » Jun 12, 2014 1:15 pm
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- Dictionaries and dictionary usage
The tendency to cite dictionaries as authoritative.
by don't get me started » Jun 04, 2014 5:15 am
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- Free language learning site
Spanish, Portugese, Italian and English
by Thomas Eshuis » Jan 04, 2014 7:02 pm
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- How do linguists define and use these terms?
Concept, meaning, reference (and related terms)
by seeker » Mar 19, 2014 3:39 pm
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Mar 24, 2014 6:24 pm
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- Semantic classifications of words
by seeker » Jan 24, 2014 7:18 pm
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Feb 27, 2014 7:55 am
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- How semantic research is done?
(I mean: research about meanings/usages of words)
by seeker » Feb 02, 2014 6:31 pm
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- More men speaking in girls' 'dialect', study shows
by JVRaines » Dec 06, 2013 11:50 pm
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- They Found A Universal Word?
Huh?
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- The World Atlas of Language Structures
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- Similarities between disparate languages
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- New Language discovered
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- How did you learn English?
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- lol
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- An introduction to linguistics
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- Beginning sentences with "so"
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- Lord's Prayer in Anglo-Saxon
Old English as it would have sounded
by Atheistoclast » Jan 08, 2013 3:04 pm
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- Learning another language. What works?
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- Language Experiments
Help promote language research
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- Anyone tried Duolingo?
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- Free word order?
What does it do? How free can it be?
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- Does mathematics translate into every language?
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