Most Read This Week In Language


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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
Intimacies
The Language of Liars
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
The Killing Spell
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Centre
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
The Colony
Misinterpretation
Hèhè
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
The Interpreter
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Vita mortale e immortale della bambina di Milano
Speaking in Tongues
Wordhunter
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
My Broken Language
Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle
The Definitions
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
poyums
A Chest Full of Words
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
Into the Fire (Angelhart Investigations, #0.5)
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
Home in a Lunchbox
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
What Makes Us Human
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Żeńska końcówka języka
Rakkaat sanat
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Translating Myself and Others
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Deep Wheel Orcadia
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
Permanent Astonishment
The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Die goeie ouwe taal
Monster Hands
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
The Philosophy of Translation
A Mischief of Mice
The Naming Song
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
Fake Chinese Sounds
The Rock in My Throat
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle – A Memoir and Historical Account of Word Games and Female Resistance
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
Scroll
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
French Short Stories – Volume 1
العرنجية
Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
Deutsch – Eine Liebeserklärung: Die zehn großen Vorzüge unserer erstaunlichen Sprache (German Edition)
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
Die Macht der Mehrsprachigkeit: Über Herkunft und Vielfalt
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
The Secrets of Words
Głusza
The New Rooster
My Pet Feet
Luli and the Language of Tea
Gibberish
Stand Like a Cedar
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Die Sprache des Kapitalismus

Stephen Fry
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ...more
Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

N.H. Kleinbaum
So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.
N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

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