The Curses of Aquae Sulis

A reexamination of the defixio (Defixiones, Part 1)

While visiting Bath, we went to the Roman ruins there. To be frank, my expectations were not high; at street level, the town center is all gray Palladian orderliness built…

Serious and Playful Cryptolects

The ubiquitous ludling (Argots, Part 2A)

Me Talk Pretty Ludling

Linguistic adventures in girl world (Argots, Part 2B)

When I was in the second grade, Zoom burst onto the children’s educational television scene like an excessively energetic preteen through a giant paper logo. Although my…