Playing With Language

Playing With Language

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Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi

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Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi

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Playing With Language

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  1. 1 Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi
  2. 2 How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston
  3. 3 One of the most difficult words to translate... - Krystian Aparta
  4. 4 How interpreters juggle two languages at once - Ewandro Magalhaes
  5. 5 The pleasure of poetic pattern - David Silverstein
  6. 6 Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude
  7. 7 How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) - Katherine Hampsten
  8. 8 How did clouds get their names? - Richard Hamblyn
  9. 9 How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas
  10. 10 Buffalo buffalo buffalo: One-word sentences and how they work - Emma Bryce
  11. 11 Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern
  12. 12 Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor
  13. 13 The language of lying — Noah Zandan
  14. 14 How languages evolve - Alex Gendler
  15. 15 The true story of 'true' - Gina Cooke
  16. 16 Speech acts: Constative and performative - Colleen Glenney Boggs
  17. 17 Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages? - John McWhorter
  18. 18 Birth of a nickname - John McWhorter
  19. 19 Shakespearean dating tips - Anthony John Peters
  20. 20 A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorter
  21. 21 Why is there a "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke
  22. 22 How did English evolve? - Kate Gardoqui
  23. 23 How can you change someone's mind? (hint: facts aren't always enough) - Hugo Mercier
  24. 24 The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack
  25. 25 "Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense
  26. 26 What happens when you die? A poetic inquiry
  27. 27 Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak? - Lorenzo García-Amaya
  28. 28 How to get a word added to the dictionary - Ilan Stavans

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