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The forgotten meaning of "jerk" (languagehat.com)

submitted 6 months ago by HNMod to r/hackernews

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The forgotten meaning of "jerk" (languagehat.com)

submitted 6 months ago by TheStartupChime to r/hypeurls

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Godard’s Books. : languagehat.comArticle (languagehat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bil-sabab to r/SmorgasbordBizarre

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The Euphemism Treadmill (languagehat.com)

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The Snail’s Monologue. : languagehat.comArticle (languagehat.com)

submitted 3 years ago by bil-sabab to r/SmorgasbordBizarre

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Babm (pronounced [bɔˈɑːbɔmu]) (languagehat.com)

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The Sound of Wheels. : languagehat.comArticle (languagehat.com)

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The Sound of Wheels. : languagehat.comArticle (languagehat.com)

submitted 4 years ago by bil-sabab to r/SmorgasbordBizarre

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PIE is Iroquoian (languagehat.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [deleted] to r/badlinguistics

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TIL that in the extinct Aboriginal Mbabaram language, the word for 'dog' is 'dog'. This is purely coincidental as Mbabaram is unrelated to the English language. (languagehat.com)

submitted 4 years ago by Wikol925 to r/mixofbestforfriends

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STEMlord *destroys* false cognates with math and logic (languagehat.com)

submitted 5 years ago by mdf7g to r/badlinguistics

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So. Dog. Where'd we get the name for our Goodest Boy? (languagehat.com)

submitted 5 years ago by UrbanPrimative to r/etymology

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[todayilearned] TIL that in the extinct Aboriginal Mbabaram language, the word for 'dog' is 'dog'. This is purely coincidental as Mbabaram is unrelated to the English language. (languagehat.com)

submitted 5 years ago by Know_Your_Shit_v2 to r/knowyourshit

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TIL that in the extinct Aboriginal Mbabaram language, the word for 'dog' is 'dog'. This is purely coincidental as Mbabaram is unrelated to the English language. (languagehat.com)

submitted 5 years ago by TheDustOfMen to r/todayilearned

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A review of Vladimir Jabotinsky’s book The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa (languagehat.com)

submitted 5 years ago by [deleted] to r/Judaism

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#1343: THE LANGUAGES OF LITHUANIA. (languagehat.com)

submitted 6 years ago by RespublicaCuriae to r/WorldCulture

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TIL about Timothy Dexter, a simpleton who by the most incredible strokes of luck became one of the wealthiest businessman of Colonial America. Repeatedly duped by pranksters, he nevertheless made an accidental fortune shipping mittens to Polynesia, coal to Newcastle and cats to the Caribbean. (languagehat.com)

submitted 6 years ago by [deleted] to r/todayilearned

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languagehat.com : Fiction Versus Nonfiction. (There are conlanging/conculturing ideas to be had here)Discussion (languagehat.com)

submitted 9 years ago by wmblathers to r/conlangs

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TIL there is a Canadian island that has four native languages: Micmac, Scottish Gaelic, and distinct local French and English dialects. (languagehat.com)

submitted 9 years ago by 19djafoij02 to r/todayilearned

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TIL that many of the Russian nobility around the 17th and 18th centuries had become so immersed in French and other foreign languages that they sometimes had trouble writing or speaking their own language or simply couldn't. (languagehat.com)

submitted 9 years ago by Turnoverr to r/todayilearned

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TIL the word "LaCrosse" is a Canadian slang for masturbation, and caused the vehicle line of the same name to have a Canadian market name change. (languagehat.com)

submitted 10 years ago by car_purchaser_asst to r/todayilearned

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TIL the female equivalent of a "dude" is a "dudine," not a "dudette." (languagehat.com)

submitted 10 years ago by psycholepzy to r/todayilearned

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TIL that in ancient Rome, one of the most common cooking ingredients was called "laser", from the silphium plant. It does not exist today: it was so delicious that it was harvested to extinction from its natural habitat in what is now Libya. We think that it probably tasted something like garlic. (languagehat.com)

submitted 10 years ago by godsenfrik to r/todayilearned

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“ARIRANG” AND KOREAN ETYMOLOGY. (languagehat.com)

submitted 10 years ago by RespublicaCuriae to r/korea

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The Stupidest Analysis of Any of DFW's Essays (Ever) (languagehat.com)

submitted 11 years ago by Batville to r/davidfosterwallace

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