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I'm learning Welsh on Duolingo. Most people in our department are doing a language on it, in some cases for practical purposes but for m...

Linguists are liable to stop mid-conversation to write down something they or their interlocutor said, if it was linguistically interesting....

I've held off on blogging about Wordle, because everyone else did it, and because I didn't have anything particular to say. People t...

There is a film called Willy's Wonderland, starring Nicolas Cage, and it is bizarre and wonderful. You should watch it. Cage has to spen...

How many times do you need to use a word in one piece of writing or speech before it's too many?  In the novel 'We' by Yevgeny Z...

The verb disappear  is normally what we call 'intransitive', which means that it has one participant: the person who disappears. Lik...

There's a sort of trope that Japanese has no swear words, and instead you insult someone simply by using the wrong level of politeness. ...