Silly Linguistics Magazine Preview – Issue 22
As one of the world’s most popular second languages, it comes as no surprise that English has influenced the vocabularies of many different languages across the globe. Sometimes, this has been through loanwords, such as Computer (computer) in German, which are words lifted straight out of one language and used in another. Slightly less obvious […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Preview – Issue 39
My husband and I walked into a busy gas station last weekend. Long queue ensured, he got in line to save us a spot and I scoured the station for drinks and snacks. I had to ask him what he wanted, but since he was in line and I was at the other side of […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Preview – Issue 21
In France, as in many countries, there are several varieties of the samelanguage. These varieties of the same language are even to be remarkedacross the world (French in Quebec, Africa, even in South America withFrench Guinea, and so on). Of course, every language is able to havedifferent accents, as the social customs highly differ from […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Preview
There are roughly 6,500 languages spoken in the world today. That is an extraordinary number of ways to communicate. It is said that by learning another language, you learn to understand the culture of its speakers. Imaginebeing able to understand 6,500 different ways of life of 7 billion global speakers. However, many of these languages […]
The development of the number two in the Indo European languages – Available on Etsy
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