language

51 posts

1. Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? by John McWhorter — Aeon November 19, 2015
2. Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas November 5, 2015
3. Orion Magazine | Landspeak May 25, 2015
4. Why Everyone's Saying 'YAAAAAASSSSSS' Now April 22, 2015
5. The Meaning of “Culture” December 28, 2014
6. Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles, 1890–2014 December 16, 2014
7. Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone - NYTimes.com September 29, 2014
8. The Internet Has a Problem(atic) - The Awl September 29, 2014
9. Cormac McCarthy's Vocabulary Is Better Than Yours: Blood Meridian {spoilers!} August 10, 2013
10. The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson June 2, 2013
11. Making culture for the internets—all of them — The Sea of Fog — Medium February 26, 2013
12. A Wealth of Words by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., City Journal WInter 2013 January 28, 2013
13. Scott Adams Blog: Sleep Tip 03/21/2011 November 18, 2012
14. Truth and falsity properly considered are properties of language, not of images September 17, 2012
15. Chiasmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia August 16, 2012
16. One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do June 11, 2012
17. Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff and Mark Johnson [pdf] April 18, 2012
18. Words to Be Aware Of – Lone Gunman March 9, 2012
19. I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review January 24, 2012
20. Turning words into touchdowns: Does a player's speech predict how he'll perform in the NFL? - Slate Magazine January 9, 2012
21. The Language of Food: Entrée January 3, 2012
22. Southern American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia September 21, 2011
23. There are cases were poetry creates itself August 25, 2011
24. Art Bollocks - Bryan Ashbee July 27, 2011
25. Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples - BBC News July 22, 2011
26. When we get better at expressiveness, we get better at understanding, better… July 4, 2011
27. Philosophy and jokes proceed from the same impulse: to confound our sense… May 31, 2011
28. Phonestheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia February 14, 2011
29. Say What?: An Interview with Etymonline.com’s Douglas Harper | David C. Carver | Drunken Koudou February 7, 2011
30. You can tell when rhetoric is empty — and therefore should be cut — because it… February 3, 2011
31. A Cadger’s Map of a Begging District January 28, 2011
32. Business clichés: The subtleties of corporate English | The Economist December 12, 2010
33. Astroturfing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia November 19, 2010
34. A Crash Course in Rap Lyrics Through 'The Anthology of Rap' - New York Magazine November 1, 2010
35. Emotive conjugation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia October 15, 2010
36. Copacetic - Online Etymology Dictionary September 13, 2010
37. Generic Names for Soft Drinks by County September 8, 2010
38. RAS syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia July 23, 2010
39. The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that… April 26, 2010
40. Isogloss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia March 22, 2010
41. Modern Love - In a Foreign Language, Are the Words ‘I Love You’ Just Sounds? - NYTimes.com January 15, 2010
42. How to Argue Effectively - Dave Barry January 7, 2010
43. And sud­denly every­thing he had been doing stood up… December 28, 2009
44. Mondegreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia October 28, 2009
45. A Brief History of “Cool” | Fast Company July 10, 2009
46. "All language, at some level, is body language" November 16, 2008
47. George Carlin's last interview is really good September 2, 2008
48. Common phrases in Icelandic August 27, 2008
49. Graphing the accepted spelling of "ThunderCats, ho!" April 23, 2008
50. The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese (review: 3/5) February 16, 2008
51. Kottke revives and collects some previous research into one of the latest October 31, 2006