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Stef van den Tweel
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Aug 17
Bahasa Indonesia: The Language That Unites a Nation
How one language played a crucial role in uniting…
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Stef van den Tweel
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Jul 13
War in Ukraine: How Years of Russian Aggression Revived the Ukrainian Language
Why Putin's attacks on…
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Ally Bush
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Nov 21, 2023
That Turnip Is a Girl, and That Girl Is An ‘It’
How German and other languages bake gender into their
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Hello planet
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Aug 20, 2023
OK. Wait, Where Does OK Even Come From?
What ties Martin Van Buren, the Greeks, Bostonians, Choctaw
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William Sidnam
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Aug 8, 2022
The Novel Without The Letter E
Deconstructing Georges Perec's novel La Disparition
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Gianina Buda, PhD
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Jun 6, 2022
Learn French Idioms With Me #2/100
Trivia: This common French idiom means “to run low.”
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William Sidnam
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Sep 20, 2020
Why the Ancient Greeks Couldn't See the Colour Blue
A review of Guy Deutscher's 'Through the Looking Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages'
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Emily Morgan
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Jun 29, 2020
Burn, Freeze or Drown?
What language can tell us about the cooking habits of ourselves and our
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Emily Morgan
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Jun 22, 2020
A Storm in a Teacup
Digging into English phrases to see what we can see
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Emily Morgan
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Jun 15, 2020
From Nowhere Else to Never Never
When place names say too much — or not nearly enough
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