Topic
linguistics
- James Murray
The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre, but no discernible circumference. —James Murray)
- Ancient Greek Terms
From Classical Wisdom, a list of terms from Ancient Greek we should restore to use. A couple of goodies: Phronesis (Greek: φρόνησῐς) Phronesis is a type of wisdom or intelligence. It is more specifically a type of wis…
- The Spread of Writing
The spread of written language around the world, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to today.
- 4 Amazing Things About Language
Dialect expert Erik Singer is back with a short video on some fascinating features of language: I find anything about language or linguistics immensely fascinating. It's amazing the way humans so naturally develop the…
- Weekend Reading: Brains and Language, Hillshading in Blender, and Antifragility
🧠 Your Brain Needs 1.5 MB of Storage to Master Your Native Language "It may seem surprising but, in terms of digital media storage, our knowledge of language almost fits compactly on a floppy disk," the authors wrote…
- Linguistic Relativity
The linguist John McWhorter has written a plethora of books on the English language. For an academic (he’s a professor at Columbia University), he has a very progressive view of English’s evolution, a supporter of the…
- Language and Progress
A wide-ranging conversation on linguistics, human scientific advancement, and enlightenment thinking with Steven Pinker and John McWhorter. Linguistics is endlessly fascinating. I might be an outlier, but I absolutely…
- Technique Critique
This series with dialect coach Erik Singer is great, I could watch dozens of these. He critiques renditions of different accents, some of them specific regional dialects: Maybe it's related to my interest in geography…
- Why Arabic is terrific
Maciej Cegłowski on his summer studying the language.