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