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Negation and agreement in different languages

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Learning Zulu

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Adventures in the English language; AkaThe YGS thread

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Russian and Ukrainian Languages

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Ways to learn (natural) languages?

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The verb "to be"

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simple sentence

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Anglo-Frisian

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Ablaut Reduplication

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The definition of a "mental disorder."

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Words people with different native languages can't pronounce

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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

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Dionysus or Dionysos

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The word "altruism"

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The word "bigot" has lost all validity I think

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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

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Blogger fired from language school over "homophonia"

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Easy and hard languages to learn

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Restroom or bathroom?

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Inuit Words for Snow?

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Linguistic misconception bingo

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Are Chomsky's views "dominant" in current linguistics?

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The semantics thread

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A new development in linguistics

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Compound words in different languages

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Name that accent

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How can we entirely eliminate gendered pronouns?

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Theories of the Origin of Language

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The Evolution of Language

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Dictionaries and dictionary usage

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Free language learning site

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How do linguists define and use these terms?

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Semantic classifications of words

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How semantic research is done?

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by seeker » Feb 02, 2014 6:31 pm

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More men speaking in girls' 'dialect', study shows

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They Found A Universal Word?

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The World Atlas of Language Structures

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Similarities between disparate languages

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by hackenslash » Feb 13, 2013 9:09 am

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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

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