Archive for Languages
Alicia Vikander on Swedish slang
Plural-noun Holidays
Why do we have more days set aside to honor stuff than things?
“usted” and “Vd.”
Swedish gender-neutral pronoun: hen
Spanish words that break the -o/-a gender rule
Verb conjugators
Two reference sites that provide conjugations for verbs in many languages: bab.la Verbix
Ming dynasty rebus
On reviving dormant languages
Lovely, long, fascinating, thought-provoking article about languages going dormant/extinct, and languages being revived, and colonialism, and more, from a Marxist or at least Leftist perspective: “Salvaging the Dormant: On Language,” by Sarah Grey. Includes discussion of updating languages for modern use; of appropriate terminology around the death or dormancy of languages; of forcing Native American […]
Gellerese
Back in March, I watched an episode of the original Mission: Impossible TV series, which led me to look the show up on Wikipedia. I was amused by the paragraph...