Linguistics & Language

Ukraine Update May 23

2026 — Semantics, Chinese Schools, Empty Shopping Malls

When Rain Speaks Itself: The Poetics of Subjectless Japanese

Deaf English: The Dialect That Doesn’t Exist

Linguists recognize 160 English dialects. The one shaped by sign language isn’t among them. I’m a Deaf data analyst, and this piece is…

The Art of Being Multicultural, Multilingual, and Multidimensional

Growing Up in the Twilight Zone

Trump Uses “I” Twice as Often as the Sociopath Kubrick Invented. The Pope Uses It Zero Times.

I used software that measures word patterns to analyze Trump, Pope Leo, A Clockwork Orange, and Milgram’s obedience prompts. The data…

You Cannot Say What You Mean

Exploring the limits of human language

Ketika Kata Menjadi Masalah

#1249: Belokan Linguistik dan Batas antara Leksikon dan Wacana

Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment

Synergizing the strategic inflection points on the global data network.

Has “Neurodiversity” Gone Rogue?

On a Movement Undermining its Own Linguistic Innovation

When Is A Donkey Not A Donkey?

A little wine, a little Franglaise, et voila. Confusion

Here’s My New Vowel: ə

How to pronounce ə

Travel as a Trans Woman Looks Like Trouble

Identity issues make me feel like staying home

The Teenagers Blamed for Wrecking English Are Quietly Building a Second One

I should be honest about how this article began. I sat down to write a satire; a brisk, superior little piece about the way the new…

The R – T Framework

Toward a Theory of Rotational – Translational Coherence in Physical, Biological and Engineering Systems

Siberian Skeletons and Linguistic Homelands

A revolutionary new discovery about the history of language

The English Language Has a Weird Crush on Disaster

Why are so many of our coolest words describing everything falling apart?

Linguistic Foundation in Cognitive Architecture

A comprehensive analysis for economic performance is based in language theory

Is “Cozy” a Cozy Word?

A look at the uncertainty of linguistics.

The Language of Mist

Can A Language Become A Mechanism Of Protection?

Burning Tongues

Reading female Afghan poets in English translation