Most Read This Week In Language


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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Intimacies
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Misinterpretation
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Centre
The Colony
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Hèhè
Wordhunter
Toward Eternity
Translating Myself and Others
Home in a Lunchbox
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
The Naming Song
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
A Mischief of Mice
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
My Broken Language
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture
Monster Hands
Głusza
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word – An Informative and Engaging Look at Language, Women, and Society
A Gallery of Rogues (The Swifts #2)
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
The Interpreter
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
poyums
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Żeńska końcówka języka
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
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
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
The Last Language
The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
A Glasshouse of Stars
Permanent Astonishment
Little Bird Laila
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Luli and the Language of Tea
The Words We Share
A Chest Full of Words
The Secrets of Words
Essays Two
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
My Pet Feet
The Rock in My Throat
Speaking in Tongues
Fifty Sounds
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
This Is the Voice
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
Words to Make a Friend: A Story in Japanese and English
Otto: A Palindrama
العرنجية
The Philosophy of Translation
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
What the Taliban Told Me
Yoke of Stars
Die Sprache des Kapitalismus
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
Grandpa Is Here!

Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

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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