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Steve the vagabond
@stevethevagabond
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I love languages. I post interesting language stories and comics about language
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2017-07-04 05:32
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language
2024-03-12 09:22
Etymology and Cardi B.
By Tiffany Marcum If you use Instagram, Vine, listen to pop radio, or have seen any of the Love and Hip Hop series, you may know who I am describing already. Cardi B., born as Belcalis Marelnis Almanzar,
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language
2024-03-04 11:37
Ancient antagonists: how our ancestors cursed at each other. Part one — the Greeks
By Joana Atanasova We naturally perceive our ancestors as the “old and wise” ones. “Listen to your grandfather! He knows better!” is what your mom would say when you start arguing about the back garden
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stevethevagabond
language
2024-03-01 07:55
What’s In an Accent?
By Stefano Nunes I would like to begin by stating the simple fact that there is no such thing as “not having an accent”. Every language has accents; if they are not regional, they are foreign, and none
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language
2024-02-29 08:59
Dispatches from Linguists: Dinner with the In-Laws, Language Barriers
By Rachael Brown This month the Dispatch is from Rachael Brown, who narrates a humorous tale of learning German and how this can bring an extra level of stress to those tricky everyday occasions that are
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language
2024-02-28 09:21
Some Linguistic Customs Around the World
By Valentin Pradelou There are as many varieties of language as there are customs attached to these languages. It is easy to note, when learning a new language, that some representations of the world may
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language
2024-02-27 09:39
Seeing and Unseeing
By Gil Cohen Ever heard of the saying: “Once you see it, you can’t unsee it”? Let’s say you have a friend who has a habit of chewing very loudly, but you don’t hear it. Then, one day, another friend talks
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language
2024-02-26 10:27
The Best of the World's Untranslatable Words
By Catherine Muxworthy Every language has words in it that are unique to it, that don't translate exactly as a singular word or idea from one language into another. There are thousands of these words in
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language
2024-02-23 14:18
The Big DON’Ts of Language Learning: Don't Look for ONE method
By Alessio F. Bona The promise of “the best way” to do a certain thing is a very tempting one. Advertisements and click-baits are full of such promises: the best diet, the best work-out routine, the best
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language
2024-02-21 10:29
"Mum, I Missed the Plane!" and Other Translations of Film Titles
By Rebekah Bradshaw In many ways, Hollywood, and popular culture more generally, has become a kind of lingua franca for the younger generations across the globe. Whilst on exchange in France, I chatted
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language
2024-02-20 10:12
Ancient antagonists: how our ancestors cursed at each other. Part two — the Romans.
Ancient antagonists: how our ancestors cursed at each other. Part two — the Romans.
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language
2024-02-15 09:43
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey speak
How Yerkish helps us understand primates By Joana Atanasova Every now and then an article from a sketchy website would come up on my newsfeed, claiming that the first human-monkey hybrid was born or that
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language
2024-02-14 09:44
How to read Japanese characters and why it is so hard and interesting at the same time
How to read Japanese characters and why it is so hard and interesting at the same time
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language
2022-01-09 20:16
Assembly of Animals: The Origins of Collective Names
Written for our Silly Linguistics magazine By Catherine Muxworthy Collective names – such as a pride of lions, a swarm of bees or a pack of dogs – are used to describe a group of the same animal together.
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writing
2021-07-03 15:27
Learning languages through media
I taught myself German and it was a long arduous process. With Swedish I wanted to take it easy and do things a bit differently. So I just watched music videos of Disney songs I knew, watched Swedish vloggers
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language
2021-05-14 15:27
Language - tree or machine?
Are languages like trees? Did they grow and evolve slowly over time? Or did they get invented by some clever person and require knowledge and skill to operate and will break down if not kept working by
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DBuzz
2021-05-13 20:55
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language
2021-05-09 20:00
What do the words "not" and "wight" have in common?
If you have been watching Game of Thrones, then you would have heard the word "wight". In literature this word is used to refer to some kind of supernatural entity, whether it is a ghost or even
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language
2021-04-30 22:52
Why do "busy" and "bury" have U's in them?
Languages are messy. They borrow words from each other, have irregular verbs and their spelling systems can sometimes do with a bit of work. Writing is a technology. It is something that we use to convert
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language
2021-04-28 19:08
The story of how the word "stone" came to be
A long time ago, in the Bronze Age, there were a group of people living in Scandanavia. These people would eventually become the Germanic people. The people living then didn't really have writing. They
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language
2021-04-26 09:10
What is the Japanese word for sushi?
This question, though at first absurd, can be a great jumping off point for a discussion about language. When does a word become a part of a language? And what is a language anyway? If you went up to someone
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