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Linguistic Devotion in Motion

The reason pedants get on people’s nerves is because language is supposed to be about communication. Of course, you could nitpick what people are saying, but that is just annoying. Try to understand what someone is trying to say, and if you must, only talk about the grammar mistake or misunderstanding afterwards.

Instrument puns

I love puns! Especially puns that involve something else arty like music 🙂 Here are some more instrument puns and jokes I didn’t want my kids to join band or orchestra, and risk being exposed to so much sax and violins. We’ve really got to guitar act together. How do you make a trombone sound […]

What do nerds do for fun? They talk to each other in IPA

IPA stands for International Phonetic Association which is the association that wishes to create a list of characters to represent all the sounds used in languages around the world. In this thread, we were talking to each other using IPA, which means that we could tell what each other’s accents sounded like. It was a […]

This series proves you can use AAVE to talk about academic topics

AAVE is often portrayed as the language of gangsters and people from the wrong side of town. Any dialect is capable of communicating anything any other dialect can, and this series proves it. Thug Notes is a series where a guy speaking in AAVE analyses book. Not only does he do a great analysis, but […]

Sheldon learns Finnish

Ah Sheldon, a man after my own heart. Whenever you have some free time, just start learning a language 😀 And Finnish is a fine choice! It is a Uralic language, which means it is related to Hungarian, Estonian and the Sami languages. It is also agglutinative which means that different parts come together to […]

What is the real origin of “OK”?

OK is ubiquitous today. It has even been adopted by other languages. I think it is because of how useful it is. It can mean “I agree”, “I understand”, “I like it” or any number of other things. With such a popular word, of course people have come up with their own explanations of where […]