Consonant crisis in Spanish: massive sibilant lay-offs reported
I have little to no doubt that looking up phoneme inventories of various languages, i.e. the sets of meaningful speech sounds they use, might comfortably be one of top-ten activities to procrastinate with at 3 a.m. for many readers of this magazine. Unless you’re more into syntax and morphology when it comes to your night-time […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #77 is now available
Subscribers can get it by clicking the download link below The Extraordinary World of Hidden ModifiersBy Marc Cole Linguistics 101By Steve the vagabond Mind’s susceptibility to the performadox: cognitive defusion and performative hypothesisBy Neda Stefanović Writing and cultural development are notcorrelatedBy Qiy J. R. R. Tolkien and Finnish, Maritime mythologyand Finnish, and other theories pertaining […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #76 is now available
Subscribers can get it by clicking the download link below Falling in love with linguisticsBy Neda Stefanovic My journey learning GermanBy Steve the vagabond Does speaking one tonal language help you learn the tones of another?By Qiy Nynorsk: A Linguistic Expression of Norway’s Deep RootsBy Christian Vinther Language in the Kalevala and other comments on […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #75 is now available
Subscribers can get it by clicking the download link below Drawn from Memory – Empowering learning with creativityBy Chris Davy Staying positive around negativity: expletive negation (with examples from Serbian)By Neda Stefanović Are Romance Languages Mutually intelligible?By Wilson Opaluwa Chile: Does Language Death Equal Culture Death?By Reagan O’Brien Words in bloom: The Victorian Language of […]
Craic’s Not Whack
I’m not proud of my expat misadventures around the globe, although I’ve got enough that you think I would be: I once convinced a Swiss couple to cancel their trip to Jamaica because they didn’t understand my sarcasm; upon meeting a past partner’s parents for the first time I assumed a false cognate was a […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #74 is now available
Subscribers can get it by clicking the download link below Issue 74 – July 2024Excerpts from our articles One litte word, a world of happinessBy Christian Vinther “In the Scandinavian societies – and especially Denmark – there is, however, a single, little word that serves as an explanatory model for the Scandinavian happiness. “Hygge”. However, […]
