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Who were the Galatians? How did they get where they were?
about 8 hours ago
When I was a wee lad and went to bible school each...
Two nations divisible
about 22 hours ago
[This is a guest post by Barbara Phillips Long] There is an...
Engrish prus, part 2
2 days ago
I haven't visited Engrish.com for several years, but it is always a...
Bilingualism as a bonus for the brain
2 days ago
Is being bilingual good for your brain?Perhaps. Learning languages offers other, more...
Masochism: a bad rap from inception
4 days ago
Long ago (half a century), I had occasion to translate the word...
Computational phylogeny of Indo-European
6 days ago
Alexei S. Kassian and George Sarostin, "Do 'language trees with sampled ancestors'...
Animal calls are not comparable to human speech
7 days ago
But can they still tell us something useful about language? Here are...
Taiwanese Twosome: tea and Sino-Korean
8 days ago
Even if you can't understand spoken Taiwanese, you can learn a lot...
Unit utility
8 days ago
Today's xkcd The mouseover title: "'This HAZMAT container contains radioactive material with...
Linguistics vs. archeology and (physical) anthropology
8 days ago
Subtitle: "A cautionary note on the application of limited linguistics studies to...
Mi, mi, mi
9 days ago
[first draft written June 9-10, 2025 in Bemidji, Minnesota, where the famous...
"… and its launch it got."
10 days ago
There are several different types of "fronting" or "preposing" in English, sometimes...