Tortured Poets’ or Poets? Taylor Swift Meets the Apostrophe Police
Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling.
A major in translation and interpreting (Polish-native/English-advanced/German-upper intermediate). Loves linguistics and languages in general. Started to learn Spanish, but I’m sill a beginner. I wish to learn Dutch or some Scandinavian language sometime and this is my collection of all language- and linguistics-related stuff that I like. Other things I like include football, coffee, cats (the crazy cat lady someday probably), but the blog is primarily for languages. But feel free to ask me any questions (via “Ask me anything” at the top of the page) or start a random conversation.
How Brexit changed the English language : sociolinguo : > “Recent research > > has revealed a number of expressions > that have entered everyday use since Brexit started...
mypling : > just-shower-thoughts > : > > >> “Horrible”, “horrifying” and “horrific” describe >> negative experiences. So do “terrible” and “terrifying”...
Words of the week: Coronacoinages
My test for the correct use of “who” or “whom” in a relative clause… The Comma Queen’s Lesson on “Who” Versus “Whom”
There isn’t another one. Now it is social distancing. Be like a wug and #stayathome.
kropotkindersurprise : > March 15 2020 - Dutch sign language interpreter telling people to > stop panic buying, or “hamstering“ as it’s called in Dutch.
Source: https://twitter.com/brucel/status/1239859812059557888?s=21 Bruce Lawson. European. on Twitter
prokopetz : > We say “English doesn’t make any sense” because saying > “English is unusual in that, when it borrows vocabulary from other > languages, it tends t...
No more 'nagging wives': how Oxford Dictionaries is cleaning up sexist language
Poradnik językowy > „Language is not transparent.” The University of Warsaw has just developed language recommendations promoting inclusion and non-dscriminatory language. It is aime...
Why you might be counting in the wrong language Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. (…) And in English, words like “twelve” or “el...
mypling : >> “Are you a colorless green idea? Because I want to sleep >> furiously with you.” > > — pickup lines with Noam Chomsky (via hippotatomi > )
Algorithms find top 11 adjectives for men v. women in 3.5M books - Futurity
archosaur-automaton : > This is a Venn Diagram of the overlap between the Greek, Latin, and > Cyrillic alphabets. > > We should combine them all into one Ultra Ortho...
‘Laziness has won’: apostrophe protection society admits its defeat The Apostrophy Protection Society has come to a full stop.
giulia-liddell : > gecko-chann > : > > >> awed-frog >> : >> >>> dependsoncontext >>> : >>> >>>> >>> >>> thanks I hate it >> >> S...
Tonight’s reading. I bought it during my trip to Frankfurt, where I visited Communication Museum / Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt (which btw I very much recommend to everyone, it’s fun! ...