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expletive infixation A great fucking explanation of expletive in-fucking-sertion Thom Dunn
merriam-webster The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn
garbage language What is "garbage language" and why is it so hard to avoid using? Thom Dunn
multilanguage A fascinating map of the most spoken languages in every US state besides English and Spanish Thom Dunn
Dante Dante's Hell re-imagined as linguistic sins Gareth Branwyn
dictionaries The Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year is… David Pescovitz
dictionaries Fun interactive way to see what words were first used in print in a particular year David Pescovitz
Great apes How to speak chimpanzee David Pescovitz
elf The colonialism behind fantasy's vaguely Irish Elves Thom Dunn
talk radio Open archive of 240,000 hours' worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription Cory Doctorow
emoji as emblems and gestures Because Internet: the new linguistics of informal English Cory Doctorow
lingua franca Guess what languages these people are speaking David Pescovitz
social psychology You can hear the smile in someone's voice even when you can't Dan Ruderman
drums How Amazonian drum communication sounds (and acts) like human speech David Pescovitz
cursing Why swearing can be a good fucking way to sound convincing David Pescovitz
slang Watch Reese Witherspoon teach you some southern slang David Pescovitz

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