Archives

Happy Yule – Old English

Here is how to talk about christmas stuff in Old English. Christmas is a fun time of year, and what better way to celebrate that time of year than with old languages and your favourite youtube videos 🙂

Old letters in English

English has gone through a surprisingly large amount of spelling and writing changes over the centuries. When the scribes first arrived in England and started writing Old English down, it was pretty phonetic. But pronunciation moved on, but spelling didn’t. That is why today we have such a weird spelling system.

What did Richard III sound like?

Reconstructing what a language used to sound like is very hard work. There are obviously no sound recordings from back in the 1400s. But we can make an educated guess based on a few factors. Some words rhymed then that don’t rhyme now. This can tell us which sounds were the same. We can also […]

Star Wars in Atlaans

Atlaans is a constructed language I created a few years back. I love doing stuff in my conlang. It adds life to Atlaans and makes it feel much more real to me, as if it existed as a fully living language out in the world. With the Star Wars movie coming out, I decided to […]

Schwa

  9 Fun Facts About the Schwa | Mental Floss What is a schwa anyway? Here are nine things to help you get to know this very important vowel. Source: mentalfloss.com/article/56821/9-fun-facts-about-schwa Schwa is that funny sound we make in English in some words. We don’t pronounce the “o” in the word “photography” the same whereever […]

Christmas time for Linguists

If you were not have been going to change your ways, then you would not to have been seeing this great meme that I would not to have been showing you on this website. If I would not to have been writing about languages on this website, I would not to have been writing about […]