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A question about the ellipsis 13 PJMcK Aug 2020 Aug 2020 2 3448

I learned something new today.... 3 yuiyoshida Jun 2020 Jun 2020 4 2826

Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages 4 Behind the Aegis May 2020 Jun 2020 1 3576

DuoLingo app! 3 yuiyoshida May 2020 Sep 2020 0 3200

Interesting twitter thread on "translation talk" 1 soryang May 2020 May 2020 3 2307

Any recommendations for jump starting French 9 bucolic_frolic Apr 2020 Jun 2020 0 5311

I was looking at taking Spanish at our community college. I was wondering about online 4 brewens Apr 2020 Apr 2020 0 2783

1400 Japanese Vocab & Phrase 3 hr Audiobook (BasicIntermediate) 0 yuiyoshida Apr 2020 Apr 2020 1 1662

Yandere (ヤンデレ) 1 yuiyoshida Mar 2020 Mar 2020 4 1609

PARASITE-Jessica song(Parody)full version-Korea song(독도는 우리 땅) 0 soryang Feb 2020 Feb 2020 0 1959

Korea Sijo (시조) in English -- by translation and original poems 0 soryang Feb 2020 Feb 2020 2 1946

How I Learnt JAPANESE (Mikan) 3 yuiyoshida Jan 2020 Feb 2020 0 1932

DO NOT SAY 'I think...' - say THIS instead - 21 more advanced alternative phrases 6 yuiyoshida Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 2415

Hwang Jini's riddle is a play on Hanja 0 soryang Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 4770

What does the Korean word "Arirang" ( 아리랑 ) mean? 0 soryang Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 2658

Ten Useful Korean Slang Terms X 2 2 soryang Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 1874

Japanese phrases you can use (Phrases I have accumulated over the years.) 1 yuiyoshida Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 7080

Otsukaresama desu - The magic word in Japanese 1 yuiyoshida Oct 2019 Mar 2023 1 3916

Why Is Korean So Hard? 1 soryang Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 2044

Agnotology 4 littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 Sep 2019 8 1901

WHY Japanese is the HARDEST Language 4 yuiyoshida Sep 2019 Sep 2019 1 1794

Japanese guy reacts to Foreigner's Tattoos 1 yuiyoshida Aug 2019 Aug 2019 3 1858

the persistence of syntax 3 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2019 Aug 2019 3 1897

My 1950s miseducation in English. 13 Lionel Mandrake Jul 2019 Aug 2019 2 3033

expressing feelings in Japanese 7 yuiyoshida Jun 2019 Jul 2019 1 2219

These are the hardest-to-spell words in the English language, CNN: 3 Stuart G May 2019 May 2019 2 1992

What's in a name? Japan puzzles over 'Reiwa' 2 soryang Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1711

South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation Invites Applicants for Summer Institute 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1888

Crossing Divides: Two Koreas divided by a fractured language 5 soryang Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 3348

A Brief History of British and Irish Languages 4 ashling Mar 2019 Jul 2019 19 2752

Languages and Linguistics Continued...

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Morphology of "antidisestablishmentarianism", 2 Lionel Mandrake Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 6922

How to Upgrade your Speech by Not Saying "Like" 9 littlemissmartypants Nov 2018 Jan 2019 3 3139

Items on the menu at a Mexican restaurant. 2 Lionel Mandrake Nov 2017 Jul 2018 0 3358

Questions about the word pendejo 11 47of74 Sep 2017 Jul 2018 0 4374

Does redundancy constitute bad grammar? 38 Lionel Mandrake Jul 2017 Apr 2019 0 7707

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2017 Jul 2017 0 1678

The 10 Oldest Languages Still Spoken In The World Today 11 elleng Mar 2017 Dec 2018 6 4658

Wiktionary IPA symbol R is messed up. 3 Lionel Mandrake Feb 2017 Feb 2018 0 2456

Calling Yourself Humbled Doesnt Sound as Humble as It Used To 2 Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 Feb 2017 4 3014

Learning a language for business 1 KatyMan Dec 2016 Dec 2016 0 2237

What native English speakers instinctively know. 4 PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2016 May 2017 5 2896

pronunciation of poly- 4 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2016 Sep 2016 0 2540

new documentary "Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues" (reddit AMA w/ exec producers) 0 eShirl Aug 2016 Aug 2016 0 1987

Ninilchik Russian: A Dialect of Russian Spoken in Alaska... 0 xocet Jul 2016 Jul 2016 1 2027

A comprehensive website of cliches (though I prefer to call them idioms) 1 ailsagirl Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 2374

"Thank you" in more than 465 languages 0 vkkv Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 2424

Sapir-Whorf 1 aswanson Feb 2016 Feb 2016 0 2788

Question about IM/Twitter short-cut spellings 3 Tab Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 2264

Universal Grammar, parameters, and all that. 1 Lionel Mandrake Dec 2015 Dec 2015 2 2338

'hijastro' & 'filiaster' 1 Lionel Mandrake Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2362

Whistled Turkish challenges notions about language and the brain 0 Panich52 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2086

Linguist explains secret language of Gulliver's Travels 1 Panich52 Aug 2015 Oct 2015 2 2668

Want to write in the ogham alphabet? 0 geardaddy Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2018

New emotion recognition model: Humans perceive feelings of others via pattern recognition 1 Panich52 Apr 2015 Jun 2015 0 2314

F-bombs notwithstanding, all languages skew toward happiness: Universal human bias f/ positive words 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1917

I have a question: What is your opinion of learning two different languages at once? 36 whathehell Dec 2014 May 2016 0 9061

Why I like some dictionaries more than others 4 Lionel Mandrake Nov 2014 Dec 2014 0 2673

Pronunciation of articles in English 11 Lionel Mandrake Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 3698

Alaska's indigenous languages now official along with English 3 geardaddy Oct 2014 Oct 2014 11 2699

vestiges of gender and case in English 10 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2014 Nov 2014 2 4795

Languages and Linguistics Continued...

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Linguistics vs. English departments 4 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2014 Oct 2014 0 3140

Can anyone explain the syntax of "I saw it happen"? 12 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 5934

Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B 3 geardaddy Jul 2014 Dec 2014 8 2648

If you are interested in phrases, check out... 0 Behind the Aegis Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 2269

A Collection Of Curious Words From The Welsh Language 0 geardaddy Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 2675

From the Guardian: Don't neglect the UK's indigenous languages 3 geardaddy Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 3048

Japanese won't say "NO" 0 yuiyoshida Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 2341

This is the chart I meant to post... its complete. 1 yuiyoshida Oct 2013 Oct 2013 1 4533

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 yuiyoshida Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 1897

A neat site for translations 4 Behind the Aegis Jul 2013 May 2020 1 4917

What are your favorite non-English words? 23 Recursion May 2013 Mar 2023 6 8010

Easter Island Tablets Finally Deciphered 4 Anonymousecoview Apr 2013 Apr 2013 0 3067

Manx: Bringing a language back from the dead 8 geardaddy Jan 2013 Jul 2013 8 4323

Ask me anything -- 30 days of unbridled fun! 3 Speck Tater Dec 2012 Jan 2013 0 2911

IME, American public schools tended to teach French more than any other language. 8 raccoon Dec 2012 Mar 2014 0 4036

Kathryn Gray: I’m with the #Welshtaliban 6 geardaddy Dec 2012 Jan 2013 2 3672

Cool website thats helpful 2 AsahinaKimi Jul 2012 Jul 2012 1 3196

Google sets out to save dying languages 1 AsahinaKimi Jun 2012 Jun 2012 1 2877

Sweet Briar College (Virginia, independent, women's college) cutting its German program. 3 no_hypocrisy May 2012 Jun 2012 0 2974

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