Most Read This Week In Language


Most Read This Week Tagged "Language"

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Intimacies
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Misinterpretation
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Centre
The Colony
Toward Eternity
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Hèhè
Home in a Lunchbox
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Wordhunter
My Broken Language
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
Głusza
The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
poyums
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
The Interpreter
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Translating Myself and Others
Gibberish
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
Monster Hands
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!
Little Bird Laila
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
Żeńska końcówka języka
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
I Dream of Popo
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
The Rock in My Throat
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word – An Informative and Engaging Look at Language, Women, and Society
Speaking in Tongues
Yoke of Stars
The Naming Song
Scroll
Бачити українською
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
Words to Make a Friend: A Story in Japanese and English
A Mischief of Mice
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Isabel and her Colores Go to School (English and Spanish Edition)
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
What the Taliban Told Me
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Die Macht der Mehrsprachigkeit: Über Herkunft und Vielfalt
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
A Gallery of Rogues (The Swifts #2)
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
Luka. Jak wstyd i lęk dziurawią nam język
العرنجية
Luli and the Language of Tea
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
Otto: A Palindrama
The Last Language
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
The Philosophy of Translation
What Makes Us Human
A Chest Full of Words
Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

James Joyce
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Stephen Fry
Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the sta ...more
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