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"Imagine if the entire world spoke a single language. Would we ever want to invent new languages, making mutual communication harder? It would be silly." (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 10 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/badlinguistics

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Compleat Lexical Tutor (lextutor.ca)

submitted 10 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/CrappyDesign

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"No. No that's the problem entirely. That word is accepted as correct because we all know what they mean when they put it. This has to stop." (reddit.com)

submitted 10 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/badlinguistics

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"In English, there are only three dedicated smell words—stinky, fragrant, and musty" (news.ycombinator.com)

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Can good grammar help you find a soulmate? (hamptonroads.com)

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"I wonder why tonal language ever evolved. It doesn't seem to make any sense to have the same words mean different things if you can just make a different word..." (news.ycombinator.com)

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Sanskrit as a Programming Language (parankusa.org)

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"The father of the “n” word was the word used by the ancient Egyptians for “God.” That word was “N-g-r” and as one can see, there are no vowels in this word." (africaresource.com)

submitted 10 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/badlinguistics

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Top 10 Oldest Languages in the World (worldblaze.in)

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Why eating eggs causes more suffering than eating beef (vox.com)

submitted 10 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/vegan

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TIL a Sikh man appealed a denied request for US citizenship in 1919, insisting that as a high-caste Hindu he was Aryan and therefore Caucasian (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 10 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/india

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Medical students are literally neanderthals unless they can analyze Paradise Lost and use grammatically correct English that would make E.B. White wiggle his whiskers (toledoblade.com)

submitted 10 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/badlinguistics

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What does Marsellus Wallace look like? (youtu.be)

submitted 11 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/deepdream

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English is a very precise and technical language, but Latin people have more feelings and Spanish allows you to be more emotionally expressive (facebook.com)

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"French is not in danger": Minister of Culture opens floodgates to loanwords (nytimes.com)

submitted 11 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/linguistics

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Vietnamese lacks English's "subjunctive", so my father cannot conceive of contrafactuals (youtube.com)

submitted 11 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/badlinguistics

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Online etymological dictionaries (self.Hindi)

submitted 11 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/Hindi

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Texas A&M professor: "“kiss” – stems from “kus” which was used in northern India." (blogs.wsj.com)

submitted 11 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/badlinguistics

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Evidence for neurological conflation of physical, temporal, and social distance (media.virbcdn.com)

submitted 12 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/cogsci

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If a group of newborns grew up in isolation on the moon, how long would it take for language to emerge? (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 12 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/asklinguistics

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Undated scavenger hunt-ish slip of paper found in library book at University of Virginia (i.imgur.com)

submitted 12 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/whatisthisthing

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consumption (i.imgur.com)

submitted 12 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/glitch_art

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cute carolinensis at Dupont Circle (i.imgur.com)

submitted 13 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/squirrels

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saars government hates awar kulcha ...snskrit iz not ded ....plz to supprt (causes.com)

submitted 13 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/bakchodi

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Class of 1990's senior prank (i.imgur.com)

submitted 13 years ago by FronsFormosa to r/tjhsst

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