Zoe EnginWords for ThoughtA Look into Saving Polysynthetic Languages in Indigenous CommunitiesIndigenous cultures have historically been mistreated and disregarded in North America due to years of colonization and forced…12 min read·Oct 24, 2023----
Zoe EnginWords for ThoughtThe Effort to Save an Endangered LanguageAn Interview with Professor Sylvia Schreiner about her work on St. Lawrence Island Yupik.16 min read·Jan 13, 2023----
Zoe EnginWords for ThoughtThe Chinese Room Thought Experiment — An Existential Philosophical ProblemAlong with the rise of artificial intelligence are the everlasting debates and questions about it. We as humans like to know exactly where…3 min read·Aug 21, 2022----
Zoe EnginWords for ThoughtThe alien language in ‘Arrival’ is pretty weird, right?The 2016 sci-fi movie that actually revolves around linguistics. Spoilers ahead.4 min read·Aug 21, 2022----
Zoe EnginWords for ThoughtMorphological Productivity and WugsA brief look into the creation of new words3 min read·Aug 19, 2022----
Zoe EnginWords for ThoughtWhat are, um, filler words?A short analysis on Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak? by Lorenzo García-Amaya3 min read·Aug 18, 2022----
Zoe EnginWords for ThoughtSo, just how many languages are there?Well, according to Ethnologue, 7,151 (give or take a few thousand).3 min read·Aug 15, 2022--1--1
Zoe EnginWords for ThoughtJust How Alien is the Klingon Language?Maybe more so than you thought.2 min read·Aug 13, 2022----