Most Read This Week In Language


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The Dictionary of Lost Words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Intimacies
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Misinterpretation
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
The Centre
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Sprache und Sein
Meter i sekundet
Wordhunter
The Colony
Home in a Lunchbox
Japan in honderd kleine stukjes
¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Speaking in Tongues
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
The Naming Song
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
My Broken Language
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
The Liar's Dictionary
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
Hèhè
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
Monster Hands
Fake Chinese Sounds
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
Żeńska końcówka języka
A Chest Full of Words
Głusza
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
A Gallery of Rogues (The Swifts #2)
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
America, My Love, America, My Heart
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
poyums
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say -- and What You Don't
Gibberish
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
Fifty Sounds
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
Scroll
Dancing Hands: A Story of Friendship in Filipino Sign Language
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Con Pollo: A Bilingual Playtime Adventure
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare
Magic Words
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
This Is the Voice
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Otto: A Palindrama
Luli and the Language of Tea
A Glasshouse of Stars
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
Anatomy of Genres
Isabel and her Colores Go to School (English and Spanish Edition)
The Words We Share
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
My Pet Feet
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
العرنجية
The Rock in My Throat
A Mischief of Mice
Away With Words
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers
Crystal Hunters (Japanese): Book 1
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
Words to Make a Friend: A Story in Japanese and English
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
What the Taliban Told Me
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books
Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology

Slavoj Žižek
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

David Levithan
i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe in that. i believe against that. ...more
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