Business update and launch of the forum
Hi guys, I wanted to give you an update on the business and general ideas for the future. I started this page all the way back in 2014. The world has changed a lot since then. The average post used to reach 15% of the audience. The page would grow at about 10% a month. […]
Save a Linguist, Learn a Dialect!
By Sofia Bragaglia Today I am going to talk about a very important linguistic phenomenon: dialects. Specifically, why they are important and why people should learn them. I was born in a small Italian town and grew up with my parents and my grandparents. My grandparents were born in the 30s, a time when the […]
The Revitalization of Modern Hebrew
By Gil Cohen How does one revitalize a language? Does one administer CPR to it? Do they blow air into the lungs of a language? Why would anyone want to do it, anyway? Language is a means of communicating ideas in your head to the person you’re talking with, right? If so, shouldn’t it be […]
S is for……Surpass
By Chris Davy One of the most important things to remember when trying to learn something, or get better at something is that the whole point is to surpass yourself. Whatever you are capable of right now, after practise and study, are you capable of extra? Of something you weren’t capable of before? But how […]
Assembly of Animals: The Origins of Collective Names
By Catherine Muxworthy Collective names – such as a pride of lions, a swarm of bees or a pack of dogs – are used to describe a group of the same animal together. Many of these terms were created during medieval times by and for the upper classes of society, written down and recorded in […]
The Canterbury Tales in Middle English with translation, lines 1 to 18
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in 1392. He wanted to include characters from all over England in his story but he died before finishing it. It is one of the most well known stories in Middle English. The Middle English period ran from the conquest of England by William the Conqueror all the way […]
