Most Read This Week In Language


Most Read This Week Tagged "Language"

Worser
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
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Misinterpretation
The Centre
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Colony
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Hèhè
Wordhunter
Toward Eternity
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
My Broken Language
The Definitions
A Mischief of Mice
A Gallery of Rogues (The Swifts #2)
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
Vita mortale e immortale della bambina di Milano
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Home in a Lunchbox
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
poyums
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
My Pet Feet
The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
Fifty Sounds
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
The Naming Song
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Away With Words
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
The Rock in My Throat
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
Fake Chinese Sounds
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word – An Informative and Engaging Look at Language, Women, and Society
Schott's Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
The Interpreter
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
A Glasshouse of Stars
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
Rakkaat sanat
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Otto: A Palindrama
A Chest Full of Words
Żeńska końcówka języka
Permanent Astonishment
What the Taliban Told Me
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
Głusza
Speaking in Tongues
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Бачити українською
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
French Short Stories – Volume 1
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book
Sana sanasta: Suomen kielen jäljillä
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!
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
The Hidden History of Coined Words
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
Deutsch – Eine Liebeserklärung: Die zehn großen Vorzüge unserer erstaunlichen Sprache (German Edition)
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
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
You're All Talk
The Philosophy of Translation
What Makes Us Human
Translating Myself and Others
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

Jeffrey Eugenides
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "th ...more
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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