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Language, Dialect, and the Time-Space Continuum

The Difference Between Language and Dialect

Sep 1, 2023

A picture of time and space bending (a grid plane introduced to a third dimension)

Sep 1, 2023

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Gen Z and the Future of English

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Language Change

Aug 4, 2023

Photo of some Generation Z people

Aug 4, 2023

The Passive Isn’t Wordy or Evasive, You Are!

On the Passive Voice as a Scapegoat for Bad Writing

Aug 4

A picture of a chalkboard with the words “Active/Passive?” written in chalk.

Aug 4

Is Your English Incorrect? Or Just Unfashionable?

“Honing in” on “Irregardless”

Jul 28

A stack of books on grammar, literature, science and history

Jul 28

Why Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky Isn’t Jabberwocky

A Linguist Weighs in on Meaningful Nonsense

Jul 21

A cropped image of John Tenniel’s illustration of Lews Carroll’s Jabberwock — a giant winged dragon-like creature with buck teeth and huge claws

Jul 21

Why Mele Kalikimaka Is the Thing to Say on a Bright Hawaiian Christmas Day

How Words Change When They Are Borrowed

Jul 16

An image of a Hawaiian beach on a sunny day with a Santa hat propped on a wooden fence

Jul 16

Impossible Words

The Phonotactic Rules of Language

Jul 9

An image of the great Cthulhu looming over R’lyeh

Jul 9

Is That Even a Word?

What Counts as a Word?

Jul 1

Scrabble blocks arranged to spell “choose your words”

Jul 1

It Is I, Sir Descriptivist! At Your Service

Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Grammar

Jun 28

Scrabble blocks arranged to spell “English” on a wooden surface

Jun 28

Etymology Schmetymology

Historical Trivia and Insufferable Pedantry

Jun 27

Meme showing image of Inigo Montoya from the movie The Princess Bride — text reads “that word, I do not think it means what you think it means,” a quote from the character in the movie.

Jun 27

Matthew Veras Barros

Matthew Veras Barros

Linguistics Professor at Washington University in St. Louis | Linguistics PhD | Natural language researcher | He/Him | Support me at: https://ko-fi.com/drbarros

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