Blind individuals motion (and why that’s type of a big …
People that are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always such as pointing out this fact when I show classes on gesture, since it provides us an …
All Things Linguistic
Are there linguistics things in your life that you would like advice about? In honour of our 100th bonus episode of Lingthusiasm, and because our first advice episode was so …
Do not never tell no one not to make use of no double downsides
Occasionally what I read informs me what to discuss. Various other times the tips come from what I view. This time it’s both. First I review a line in Richard …
Quotes are Facts. : languagehat.com
Zach Helfand’s “The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department” (archived) is an excellent read and scratches an itch I’ve had for years (“how does that work, anyhow?”); it …
Tales of the drawing room
Q: Your recent post about “repair” refers to guests who “repaired to the drawing room.” That made me wonder about the origin of “drawing room.” I doubt it was ever …
5 Habits That Make Language Learning Easier
When people ask me if learning a language gets easier, I think of Zhuangzi’s Parable of the Crooked Tree. In short, a man deems a tree useless because it can’t …
106: Is a hotdog a sandwich? The…
We asked you if a burrito was a sandwich, and you said ‘no’. We asked you if ravioli was a sandwich and you said ‘heck no’. We asked you if …
All Things Linguistic
TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts are an evolving genre of media: short-form, vertical videos that take up your whole screen and are served to you from an algorithm rather …
Link love: language (78) | Sentence first
A round-up of linguistic items – essays, news, blog posts, papers, and podcasts on language – for your enjoyment and diversion: Learning Na’vi. On plurals of hapax. Birds in English …
Why not ‘ceiling’ of the mouth?
Q: Why do we say “roof of the mouth” rather than “ceiling”? A friend asked me this and I had no idea but I thought maybe you would. A: The …