Most Read This Week In Language


Most Read This Week Tagged "Language"

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Intimacies
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Centre
The Colony
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Hèhè
Misinterpretation
The Killing Spell
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
Wordhunter
Home in a Lunchbox
Toward Eternity
The Definitions
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
A Gallery of Rogues (The Swifts #2)
poyums
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
Gibberish
I Dream of Popo
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Speaking in Tongues
The Rock in My Throat
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
The Interpreter
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
A Glasshouse of Stars
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
My Broken Language
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Into the Fire (Angelhart Investigations, #0.5)
What the Taliban Told Me
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Monster Hands
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
Translating Myself and Others
Vita mortale e immortale della bambina di Milano
Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle
Little Bird Laila
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
Luli and the Language of Tea
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Seaside Stroll
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Die Macht der Mehrsprachigkeit: Über Herkunft und Vielfalt
Głusza
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Fifty Sounds
The Last Language
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
The Naming Song
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
Away With Words
50 Italian Coffee Breaks: Short activities to improve your Italian one cup at a time
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
Fake Chinese Sounds
Rakkaat sanat
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
The Philosophy of Translation
The Words We Share
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
The New Rooster

Jeffrey Eugenides
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "th ...more
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Alan W. Watts
The menu is not the meal.
Alan Watts

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