Atlas Obscura: The U.S. Thinks It’s Harder to Learn Polish or Greek Than Swahili or Malay
Eli Burnstein: Yes, But Can You Really Explain the Difference Between Morals and Ethics?
- Hermit vs. Anchorite
- Maze vs. Labyrinth
- Ethics vs. Morality
- Parable vs. Fable
YouTube: German vs Swedish vs Norwegian vs Dutch | Can they understand the German language? | #1
Atlas Obscura: What’s the Fastest Language in the World?
Anyway, the fastest language is Japanese.
Popular Science: The language you speak changes your perception of time
XKCD: Schwa
Wikipedia: Schwa
Grammarphobia: ‘Lukewarm’ and ‘lukecool’
XKCD: OK/okay/ok
Ars Technica: Can any English word be turned into a synonym for “drunk”? Not all, but many can.
At first glance, Grundsaudaag may look like an ancient German word. Instead, it is actually an example of Pennsylvania Dutch, a Germanic language that emerged in the 18th Century and is now mostly used by the Amish and Mennonite religious communities.
History Today: How French Was Medieval England?
The Norman Conquest brought French kings, language and culture across the Channel. What did that mean for medieval England?
The first multilingual urban dictionary
Untranslatable is an online dictionary that allows people to add words and expressions from all over the world.
American Dialect Society: 2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification”
The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.
XKCD: Definitely