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Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Hèhè
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
Battle of the Linguist Mages
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Speaking in Tongues
Żeńska końcówka języka
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
The Lost Language
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
Fifty Sounds
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
The Philosophy of Translation
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Translating Myself and Others
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Dancing On Ropes
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Перемагати українською. Про мову ненависті й любові
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word – An Informative and Engaging Look at Language, Women, and Society
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
La lingua che cambia: Rappresentare le identità di genere, creare gli immaginari, aprire lo spazio linguistico
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Speak Still: Articulating the Silence of Bilingualism
The Secrets of Words
Essays Two
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Luka. Jak wstyd i lęk dziurawią nam język
العرنجية
You're All Talk
Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask
Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)
This Is the Voice
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
The Hidden History of Coined Words
Som dones, som lingüistes, som moltes i diem prou
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers
The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
Die goeie ouwe taal
Le ragioni del dubbio: L'arte di usare le parole
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
De-a dacii și romanii: o introducere în istoria limbii și etnogenezei românilor
Hyphen (Object Lessons)
Yoke of Stars
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language
Così non schwa. Limiti ed eccessi del linguaggio inclusivo

Nina George
Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.
Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

Clarice Lispector
Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded ...more
Clarice Lispector

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