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racism The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn

silicon valley What is "garbage language" and why is it so hard to avoid using? Thom Dunn

language A fascinating map of the most spoken languages in every US state besides English and Spanish Thom Dunn

humor Dante's Hell re-imagined as linguistic sins Gareth Branwyn

language The Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year is… David Pescovitz

language Fun interactive way to see what words were first used in print in a particular year David Pescovitz

language How to speak chimpanzee David Pescovitz

fantasy The colonialism behind fantasy's vaguely Irish Elves Thom Dunn

Copyfight Open archive of 240,000 hours' worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Because Internet: the new linguistics of informal English Cory Doctorow

linguistics Guess what languages these people are speaking David Pescovitz

neuroscience You can hear the smile in someone's voice even when you can't Dan Ruderman

music How Amazonian drum communication sounds (and acts) like human speech David Pescovitz

language Why swearing can be a good fucking way to sound convincing David Pescovitz

linguistics Watch Reese Witherspoon teach you some southern slang David Pescovitz

linguistics The war over apostrophes in Kazakhstan's new alphabet Clive Thompson

linguistics Vulgar generates fantasy languages with a click Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Synthetic linguists file a new brief (with Klingon passages!) about Paramount's fan-film crackdown Cory Doctorow

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