From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading
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More than 70 people try to say 70 tongue twisters from 70 countries. In this tongue twisters challenge, citizens from all around the world attempt funny tongue twisters in different languages. Most English... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 28 views • 4:06Whats up with Chinese language?
posted by makach 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 3:34Although she only talks about English, irregular verbs in Spanish (and probably other languages) are really quite similar - frequently used words tend to be more resistant to change than less frequently used ones. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 57 views • 3:59YouTube description: They're just tiny marks on the page, but a lot can depend on them. Produced for Mental Floss.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 399 views • 1:42YouTube description: Why say a whole sentence when just a word will do? You might never have noticed that these English words contain whole phrases within them. Produced for Mental Floss... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 428 views • 1:53YouTube: Here's a little video about a something that caught my interest recently: Anglish, a new "pure" Germanic variety of English with all of its non-Germanic vocabulary removed and replaced by Germanic... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 7 years 5 months ago • 367 views • 5:33YouTube description: Octopus, platypus, walrus…there’s something about that –us ending that makes us hesitate when we want to make a plural. Here's what you need to know before you pluralize.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 270 views • 2:25YouTube description: How did Q and U get to be partners? It's a tiny window back to the origins of our writing system. Produced for Mental Floss.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years ago • 404 views • 2:49YouTube description: It varies from town to town, or even within families. Part of the problem with the word pecan has to do with the way it came into the English language. Produced for Mental Floss,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month ago • 656 views • 3:17Via YouTube: There are various ways to pronounce "O-U-G-H" in the English language. This was hilariously demonstrated on the "I Love Lucy" television program by Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) and his wife,... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 2 months ago • 842 views • 3:05YouTube description: Welcome to the world of contronyms, where words mean something--as well as its opposite. Produced for Mental Floss. (via digg)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 728 views • 3:10YouTube description: Why does English have so many words that have twins? Here's how we got to have two vocabularies, one based in Germanic roots, and one based in Latin. Produced for Mental Floss. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 622 views • 2:20A discussion of the linguistic features of AAVE, it's similarity to features of other languages, and the arbitrary nature of saying one language is better/worse than another.
posted by iaui 8 years 9 months 1 week ago • 586 views • 8:33From http://boingboing.net/2015/06/16/the-evolution-of-the-word-du.html ...
posted by ant 8 years 11 months 1 week ago • 898 views • 2:25"For SIGBOVIK 2015 I did this little hack to produce a portmanteau (that's a jammin' together of two words, like caviar + armpit = caviarmpit) of all 100,000+ words in English. This video is a little illustrated... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 141 views • 8:56Where do nicknames come from? Why are Ellens called Nellie and Edwards Ned? It's all a big misunderstanding from the early days of the English language, a misunderstanding that even the word nickname itself... continue reading
posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 7 months 3 weeks ago • 51 views • 4:57Such a gentle language!
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