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2026 275

  1. Number line vulnerability?
  2. Gendering duct tape again
  3. AI doom as message overload
  4. More caricatured AI reactions
  5. Singularities: von Neumann, Good, Vinge, …
  6. Skit hits back at AI job interviews
  7. LingDuels?
  8. English adjectives as adverbs?
  9. Victor Mair and Benjamin Franklin
  10. Grace Wu's tribute to Victor Mair
  11. "Filthy comfortable"
  12. Semitic, semantic, whatever
  13. An ominous syntactic ambiguity
  14. Memorial Service for Victor Mair (update)
  15. Pneumatic, pneumonic, whatever
  16. Kasparov-Deep Blue, Navier Stokes-AI: Human versus machine metaphor quickly calcifying
  17. Philidelphia
  18. Will the president nationalize boating?
  19. Unsportsmanlike Conduct?
  20. Artificial
  21. Teriffic
  22. AI is the new cringe
  23. "Hannibal Holiday"
  24. Icons, symbols, metaphors, analogies, …
  25. Memorial Service for Victor Mair
  26. The psychology and history of English genitives
  27. OpenMai, Sam Outman, and Navia Stokes
  28. "Today's morphology is yesterday's syntax"
  29. "Illiterate Boyfriend" tests
  30. Backronym of the year
  31. "Colonel Tom Parker" == Andreas Conelis van Kuijk
  32. Evolution of laughing
  33. Unusual risks
  34. "David Advanced Plus+"
  35. Tariffs
  36. F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E.
  37. "We shall fight on the Bloombergs"
  38. Caveman linguistics
  39. Transliteration mystification
  40. "See me after class"?
  41. AI and bureaucratic productivity
  42. "Basically pleasant bureaucrat" vs. "Sexy murder poet"
  43. Solidus
  44. In the MatrAIx
  45. A pun on a pun
  46. "Melt up"?
  47. Ask LLOG: "What do you say (that) we …"
  48. Ask LLOG: "I's" ?
  49. The journalist's despite?
  50. AI image (mis)labelling
  51. Literary controversy of the week
  52. From Mark V. Shaney to AI Village, and beyond
  53. Gmail search
  54. America's most searched words?
  55. "Generative AI" != speech-to-text, diarization etc.
  56. Linguistics PhD oral exam?
  57. Phil Resnik's ACL keynote: A new balancing act
  58. Iconic punctuation
  59. “Symbolic precursors to writing” — a system of conventional signs — from the Paleolithic?
  60. Is generational punctuation still a thing?
  61. Ask LLOG: Annoying words
  62. "Our government has wrong known"?
  63. Scribal job security
  64. Dangling underwater
  65. Nll
  66. Conversational common ground: an AI failure?
  67. Victor Mair RIP
  68. Three classic posts
  69. Trumped
  70. Geophonetics in Norway
  71. FIFA linguistics
  72. "Voice AI" is really Text AI with a voice overlay
  73. Subtitles: When and for whom?
  74. Claude's Declaration of Independence
  75. Annals of Anthropomorphism
  76. Ask LLOG: Origins of slop
  77. More on Moravec's Paradox
  78. LLMs, cats, and fig trees
  79. The social evolution of typographical prosody
  80. "Their for a chances"?
  81. What Dan read
  82. AI Spontaneities?
  83. Death by punctuation
  84. Essence of meaning
  85. Writing by hand makes us think better
  86. Appetite and Taste
  87. Han Chauvinist, Anti-Manchu backlash in the 21st century
  88. PhD-level intelligence?
  89. Timing from TTS
  90. A rare finding from a Medieval toilet!
  91. The Golden Age continues?
  92. Punctuation is important
  93. Jamaican Creole is not English?
  94. Undeciphered writing systems
  95. What's this with "bougie"?
  96. Some recent articles on language and linguistics
  97. America's most misspelled words in 2026
  98. Inter-word intervals again
  99. Implicature of the day
  100. Conventional human signs 40,000 BP
  101. "Actorive"??
  102. "What else ya got?"
  103. "Benjamin Franklin, Orthoepist and Phonetician"
  104. Green bananas
  105. Some recent articles on language and linguistics
  106. Xi lies flat
  107. Losing languages: Ubykh
  108. Much ado about Marco Rubio's new Chinese name
  109. Dreibelbis redux
  110. Blue: the color that didn't exist until someone invented a word for it
  111. Scarlatti and dodecahedrons
  112. Crack and crab
  113. Monty Python Horseshoes
  114. Some recent articles on language and linguistics, part 2
  115. Promoting Taiwanese language usage in Taiwan
  116. Some recent articles on language and linguistics
  117. Decipherment of Linear Elamite, part 2
  118. Was Homer (color)blind?
  119. Oyster / persimmon rice in Bangkok
  120. Lemon tattoo
  121. Chalkboard calligraphy (w/ heroic music)
  122. Interesting video mixing Min and Shanghainese
  123. Texting makes us stupid
  124. Pakistan's Persian national anthem
  125. Gilgamesh translated
  126. Buttons' Buttons
  127. Chinese Music – It's Not Dead, It's Misunderstood…
  128. Percentage change
  129. Iliad sung
  130. Translating Shakespeare
  131. Sadness in speech: minor thirds?
  132. Extreme heat in Japan
  133. Code-mixed headline
  134. Nll
  135. Somatic sounds in the hospital
  136. Way way
  137. "Brocatives"
  138. Nll
  139. Ackee names
  140. Recent language sciences references
  141. Distribution of acronym lengths
  142. The whimsical vagaries of a young Indonesian man's name
  143. Word frequencies in LOTR vs. Dickens
  144. Nll
  145. The Aya Toll Booth
  146. _ Mode
  147. Birthright citizenship
  148. Meadow writing
  149. Vitiation of argumentation by AI participation
  150. Future Perfect
  151. Grammar
  152. Language universals
  153. Analysis of prosodic timing in reading
  154. Mandarin: English in sinographic clothing
  155. Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital
  156. Les Linguistes Atterrées
  157. Haplogroup U8a1a in Central Asia
  158. Cyclic linguistic attractors?
  159. Musical communication
  160. "Strategic Authenticity Initiative"
  161. "The Daily PensylvanIranian"
  162. Garbage in garbage out
  163. AI ↔ Social Media?
  164. "The purist jungle"?
  165. Skirt length oscillations
  166. Audience design in bee dancing
  167. UK regional names for alleyways
  168. Esperanto warning
  169. The BBC understands
  170. Tactical pyjamas?
  171. Ask LLOG: "(The) OCCUPATION NAME"?
  172. TIL: "Sealioning"
  173. The (ir)reality of the MingKwai typewriter, part 2
  174. New revelations and declarations about dodecahedrons
  175. Language Policy at the Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC)
  176. Cetacean chatter
  177. Pi(e) Day
  178. Super Fakehuman grammar everything advice
  179. Drones: The linguistic history
  180. Evidence from oracle bone inscriptions for research on typhoon-related disasters in the Central Plains and Chengdu Plain of China
  181. Language policy at the Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC)
  182. Which way hangs the apostrophe's tail?
  183. German English
  184. Chinese Text Project augmented by AI translation
  185. Problems a Chinese girl has with writing one of the characters for her name
  186. Are you in the loop?
  187. Irish in Jamaica?
  188. Electric shadows
  189. "Horse" in Nubian and other African languages
  190. Nll
  191. What's (still) wrong with text-to-speech?
  192. The Chinese Computer: Competition or Cooperation?
  193. Planes, patches, pilots, and propaganda
  194. Hanging a trans flag from El Capitan
  195. Crazy characters
  196. Unifying Arabic topolects through AI
  197. Tariffs
  198. Washington State Spanish
  199. Spacing in Korean
  200. Rampant plagiarism in the Chinese literary world
  201. Saving Sámi
  202. The full name of Bangkok
  203. "Written Cantonese must have word segmentation"
  204. The ancient Near Eastern origin of Chinese birthday celebrations
  205. Global literary diffusion and its impact on Chinese language, literature, and culture
  206. Trilingual Frequent Human-Monkey Conflicts, and Umbrellas in Taiwan
  207. Another UH?
  208. AI brings the Tarim mummies back to life, part 2
  209. English teaching for the People’s Liberation Army
  210. A love story; mediated through translation
  211. Evolution of the sinograph and the word for horse
  212. The Greeks in Ancient Central Asia: The Written Sources
  213. AI brings the Tarim mummies back to life
  214. Tamil Brahmi, Prakrit, and Sanskrit inscriptions found in ancient Egyptian tombs
  215. Nll
  216. Student names in language classes
  217. AI teaches spoken English in Taiwan
  218. Japanese inscription in medieval India
  219. Nepali man slurred in Northeast India
  220. Mandarin vs. Dongbei accent
  221. "La Cosa" ("the thing"), bigger and more intimidating than "Cosa Nostra" ("our thing" ["Mafia"])
  222. A Personal Encounter with the Submissive Woman/Bound Slave Rorschach Test
  223. Strange Chinese on South African album cover
  224. English proficiency tests
  225. Snowcrete
  226. The "unchanging gene" of the "fine Chinese language"
  227. The officialization of romaji
  228. Roboton
  229. Schneewind
  230. What green olives do to black olives
  231. Multilingual Snail Alley in Tainan
  232. Storytelling with pictures
  233. Dallas Dodecahedron Daze Days
  234. Latin, French, and vernacular English in late medieval England
  235. Making hanzi with Japanese kana
  236. Fun guy?
  237. Submissive woman or bound slave: interpreting oracle bone forms as a Rorschach test, part 2
  238. Historical onomastics of the Uyghurs
  239. Islamo-Confucianism during the early Manchu / Qing dynasty
  240. AI assistance
  241. Old, older, oldest
  242. Authenticity of pronunciation
  243. Submissive woman or bound slave: interpreting oracle bone forms as a Rorschach test
  244. A better pronunciation of "Davos"
  245. Women's script wins in the end
  246. In Memoriam: MATSUMOTO Akirō (松本耿郎), 1944-2026
  247. Another sinograph for Unicode — the third-person gender-neutral pronoun
  248. Hangul and Buddhism
  249. Seal Script in Unicode
  250. The virtues of sluggishness
  251. Amber in the east
  252. "Stopping the palace evolve"
  253. A comprehensive overview of 漢 in East Asian languages
  254. Where North Korea is headed: Kim Ju Ae
  255. Online lookup tool for Vietnamese character usages
  256. A new socio-political promo
  257. Eagles' postseason drill
  258. Battery-Powered Prayers
  259. Chomsky and the origins of AI research
  260. Oreoreoreoreo
  261. Pariah dogs and pariah people
  262. Dry January
  263. Are local accents doomed?
  264. Weltarsch
  265. A Dunhuang transformation text minutely examined and revised
  266. The ineffability of the Dao in the Zhuangzi
  267. Oppenheimer, Einstein, the Atom bomb, Hiroshima, time, death, and the Bhagavad Gita
  268. Volts before Volta
  269. Dunhuang mania nominum
  270. Buc-ee's bigness
  271. The difficulty of Russian cursive
  272. Origins of Japanese
  273. Hyperhomophonous hanzi
  274. Quiet quit and its potential perils
  275. "Welcome in!" again

2025 593

  1. Reward for learning Hakka
  2. Dialect fieldwork on the Penghu archipelago
  3. Mixing languages, religions, and cultures in Central Asia
  4. Word division and computer lockouts
  5. Celto-Sinica
  6. The Japanese language and the Japanese people: intricately intertwined helpmates
  7. Talking horse
  8. Nontrivial script fail, part 2
  9. nice == ignorant?
  10. merry == brief?
  11. More Chinese menu shorthand, part 2: the future of the Chinese writing system
  12. Name-transcription slop
  13. Annenberg
  14. Unknown language #21
  15. Test for dialect relatedness: especially for Northeast topolect groupies
  16. Northeastern topolect expressions, part 2
  17. "Manic"? "Monotone"?
  18. More Chinese menu shorthand
  19. Language reform and script reform
  20. Iron Age vehicle burials of tattooed Saka (Eastern Iranian) Pazyryk culture in the Altai Mountains
  21. Grueling South Korean English exam
  22. "Slop"
  23. "Maplewashing"
  24. Differential retention of sinographs across East Asia
  25. ChatG(eppetto)P(inocchio)T
  26. Battle of the typefaces: Times New Roman vs. Calibri
  27. "Devil" with an initial "dr-" consonant cluster
  28. Granddaddy of empty lies (with tons of puns)
  29. Anti-we
  30. Voices as instruments, instruments as voices
  31. The conceptual origins of "brainwashing"
  32. Why are Japanese still using kanji?
  33. "Blue Velvet" vocal
  34. "Dognitive Science" again
  35. TGTM: Hong Kong on fire
  36. Poor walruses
  37. Human Washing Machine
  38. The many purposes and functions of ancient manuscripts from early 2nd-century BC China
  39. A new kind of lost in translation
  40. Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis
  41. Pets with buttons
  42. Dying minority languages in Europe
  43. Polysemous Han
  44. Scope of "more than"
  45. Parsing of a fated kin tattoo
  46. In search of lost/spare/wasted time
  47. The strongest Indian accent
  48. The cruelty of (some) thesis supervisors
  49. Canting in Sinitic (and other) languages
  50. Friendsgiving
  51. A garden-path headline from the Washington Post
  52. More on algorithmic culture
  53. A German neologism coined in English
  54. Happy World Linguistics Day
  55. AI in education
  56. Canting Crew words
  57. Isidore of Seville and his Etymologiae (7th c. AD)
  58. The Canting Crew
  59. Weirdly specific words
  60. "LLM Council"
  61. Gendered word counts again
  62. Comparative Common Shē and Common Neo-Hakka
  63. L'error
  64. Ask LLOG: Alternative standard pronunciations?
  65. Uyghurish Mandarin and shrike-tongued barbarians
  66. LSA Virtual Attendance Option
  67. Why telephonic transmission requires the creation of a spelling alphabet
  68. Errorist returns
  69. Nll
  70. Nll
  71. Analogy of the week
  72. The syllabicity of spoken "Canton" and "Akron"
  73. Final prepositions again
  74. Australian WOTY vote
  75. Girlsemanticsatiation
  76. Yet another sinographic stumbling block for Chinese modernization
  77. Can't even
  78. Double Dutch
  79. Northeastern topolect expressions
  80. "Cant-idates"
  81. Passing strangers
  82. Abstand und ausbau, part 2
  83. Grading
  84. Sumerian double negative (and fart joke)
  85. Fake Indian accents (by an Indian)
  86. Hangul as a global alphabet manque
  87. Strange prescriptions
  88. Dungans at Penn
  89. Sweeping rakes
  90. Politeness levels for saying "Ohayō gozaimasu"
  91. How to transcribe the name of the ruler of the PRC
  92. Hybrid language (Japanese)
  93. Are you OK?
  94. Top Tier Taobao Trick or Treat T-shirt
  95. Punjabi word salad
  96. The formative stage of Sinitic romanization
  97. Language variation writ large
  98. Abstand und ausbau
  99. Scribes as Scheiße
  100. Pitch accent in Japanese
  101. Keelung ("chicken coop")
  102. The Oldest (Known) Song Ever
  103. Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' through time and space
  104. Schleicher's PIE "The Sheep and the Horses" (reprise)
  105. The gender of a key
  106. Sacré bleu!
  107. French girl sells crêpes in a Taiwan market, part 2
  108. What good are kanji?
  109. Spontaneities
  110. L-complex
  111. Characters at hand
  112. Unofficial simplified characters
  113. The (ir)reality of the MingKwai typewriter
  114. How to pronounce the name of the ruler of the PRC
  115. Semiliterate restaurant Chinese
  116. AI to the rescue of a Greek philosopher's work buried by Vesuvius
  117. Steve Anderson, RIP
  118. Free-er indirect speech
  119. "Think" in Japanese
  120. Nll
  121. "Moloch's bargain"?
  122. The tyranny of literacy
  123. America-vectorized units
  124. The niceties of German grammar
  125. Disposal bin
  126. Literacy: peasants and philosophers
  127. Correspondences between Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' and 奴隷 Jpn dorei / Tw lô·-lē
  128. More conjoined pronoun case counts
  129. The invention of English
  130. Barriers between you and I?
  131. "The insane effort to preserve this ancient script"
  132. "Prepositions are tricky"
  133. Different from/than/to?
  134. Study Reveals America's Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise
  135. Death from overwork
  136. "Between you and I"
  137. Intentional for good
  138. Top Gun photoshop fail
  139. Nll
  140. The singularity of stupid
  141. "Long-held assumptions"?
  142. The difficulty of borrowing in Chinese
  143. Maxwell next?
  144. Vernacular and classical fiction in late imperial China
  145. Discourse on the AI Method of Rightly Reasoning
  146. AI: Not taking jobs yet?
  147. Freudian slip of the century: "Let's stop attacking pedophiles"
  148. Sino-Japanese n- / d- initial interchange
  149. Stay hyDRAEted
  150. "It can only good happen"?
  151. Charlie Hustle in the AI industry
  152. "Slav-ishly devoted"
  153. A simple way to model prosody in reading
  154. Concocted compound characters
  155. In which would-be modernizing language does "eskimo" mean "ice cream"?
  156. Ludicrous professors shunned in Ireland?
  157. The origins of New Persian
  158. Word of the week: "curtfishing"
  159. Sakas, Kushans, and Hephthalites: the sources in Greek, Latin, Persian, and Chinese
  160. World-wide welcome?
  161. Hōrensō: another spinach footnote
  162. Baby cries and dog barks
  163. Comftrable
  164. From Bactrian Demetrios to Japanese Gobujo: myth, art, and language
  165. International TLAPD, one more time
  166. Latent trees
  167. LLMs and tree-structuring
  168. Fun with Q&A homonyms
  169. "China" vs. "My / Our Country"
  170. Paper made from 100% recycled stone?
  171. Fowler's three-colored flag?
  172. Revenge on English
  173. Spanakopita: a spinach footnote
  174. Tropical Storm Gabrielle Spaghetti
  175. More of GPT-5's absurd image labelling
  176. Flying cats
  177. More Elle Cordova shorts
  178. Melvillian (non-)hyphenation
  179. Two new foreign words: Turkish kahvalti and French pavé
  180. Michael Edward Carr, lexicographer, R.I.P.
  181. Mockusequel tapocalypse
  182. "Tape" endures
  183. Exceedances
  184. "Mexican Pink"
  185. Language of Biology
  186. Medieval Chinese erotica
  187. The language of a money laundering forum
  188. "Awe-dropping"
  189. Equine excursions and explorations
  190. The many myths about the Chinese typewriter
  191. GPT-5 can parse headlines!
  192. "Is the decline of writing making journalism dumber?"
  193. Afro-Eurasian geography, history, mythology, and language in the Bronze Age
  194. From the Vice Provost for Tokenization
  195. Bioneural Frankenstein
  196. "The ball will be in their … corner"?
  197. "What makes an AI system an agent?"
  198. Adverbial adjective of the month
  199. Matteo Ricci and the introduction of the alphabet to China
  200. Chinese learning English in Nepal
  201. "Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms"
  202. Nll
  203. Two great lexicographers, Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster
  204. Agentic culture
  205. Chinese and English in Pakistan
  206. Restitute
  207. Ask Language Log: "spends his/her/their time on"?
  208. Haboob, part 2
  209. Spontaneous (dis)fluency
  210. Memetic phrases
  211. Reversibility
  212. Watching videos at 2x speed, part 2
  213. English "necessary" in Arabic translation
  214. More on GPT-5 pseudo-text in graphics
  215. Cracker
  216. Watching videos at 2x speed
  217. Udon, wontons, & pansit
  218. Transformational manifestation: an Indo-Sinitic ontological puzzle in Chinese literature
  219. Idn't idn't really do it
  220. "Learning Makes My Mother Happy"
  221. "Focus" in Spanish?
  222. The Heisig method for learning sinographs
  223. The AI Bubble?
  224. Reading Instruction in the mid 19th century
  225. Visualizing linguistic data
  226. AI waifu & husbando
  227. Big Leech
  228. The true (sort of) story about VPNs in China, part 2
  229. No X is better than Y
  230. Ambiguous interest(s)
  231. Fundamental Sinitic linguistic issues solved through analysis of Chinese rap
  232. Tibetan language under the gun
  233. I.E. A.I.
  234. Morpho-phonologically AI
  235. Yukon English: oot and aboot, eh?
  236. Large Language Pal restored
  237. Lived Experience
  238. Looks like English is really becoming an Indian language
  239. Chain of thought hallucination?
  240. AI for reconstructing degraded Latin text
  241. Coined Chinese characters: The 24 solar terms, part 4
  242. Baby talk
  243. Coined Chinese characters: The 24 solar terms, part 3
  244. Interest(s)
  245. Coined Chinese characters: The 24 solar terms, part 2
  246. Some uninformed anti-American peeving
  247. Malayalam
  248. Vaccinations
  249. D'oh
  250. The stress and structure of "Foo Fighter"
  251. Nll
  252. Boat people
  253. Red tape
  254. A taste of Old Uyghur
  255. Boat shuttle
  256. Little Models, Language and otherwise
  257. Forced toponym changes in Xinjiang
  258. Canonical circles
  259. Radio Garden, part 2
  260. AMI not AGI?
  261. Two new kinds of tea
  262. Don't randomly touch emergency valve!
  263. Coined Chinese characters: The 24 solar terms
  264. Double Cao
  265. The true (sort of) story about VPNs in China
  266. Nll
  267. R.I.P. Tom Lehrer
  268. Communicating across metaphorical differences
  269. "Like learning physics by watching Einstein do yoga"
  270. English to English translation
  271. Footguns and rakestomping
  272. "Not created by man"
  273. Nll
  274. Japanese lexical influence on other East Asian languages
  275. Neighborhood PR Bots
  276. Proto-emoji
  277. Multiplication of unlawful disjunctions
  278. Linguistics Olympiad
  279. Memes, typos, and vernacular English in a 12th-century Latin homily
  280. Cattle raiding in medieval Ireland (and elsewhere)
  281. Replication of failure to replicate
  282. Anti-bilingualism in the news
  283. A dashing wizard
  284. The impact of different languages on our thinking and doing
  285. Interpersonal and socio-cultural alignment
  286. Nll
  287. Alignment
  288. Spinach smorgasbord
  289. Bibliographical cornucopia for linguists, part 2
  290. Bibliographical cornucopia for linguists, part 1
  291. Recursive summarization
  292. The effect of AI tools on coding
  293. Asterisk the Gaul
  294. Steele v. Monboddo
  295. Tâigael, part 2
  296. Who were the Galatians? How did they get where they were?, part 2
  297. AI win of the day
  298. Beautiful music and logical warts
  299. Spinach: Mongolian rhapsody
  300. Xanadu meme
  301. Defining "skedaddle"
  302. Spinach: Indian interlude
  303. Spiny spinach
  304. Pinyin: the proof is in the pudding
  305. Male and female mountains and rivers
  306. TREC: 1992-2025 and onwards
  307. Topolect in the big city
  308. Library lists
  309. …"wasted little time VERB.ing"…
  310. Nll
  311. Tâigael
  312. Unknown language #20
  313. Words, morphemes, collocations, characters
  314. "…a lot more cut and dry"?
  315. Who were the Galatians? How did they get where they were?
  316. Two nations divisible
  317. Engrish prus, part 2
  318. Bilingualism as a bonus for the brain
  319. Masochism: a bad rap from inception
  320. Computational phylogeny of Indo-European
  321. Animal calls are not comparable to human speech
  322. Taiwanese Twosome: tea and Sino-Korean
  323. Unit utility
  324. Linguistics vs. archeology and (physical) anthropology
  325. Mi, mi, mi
  326. "… and its launch it got."
  327. The importance of rhythm for memorization
  328. A cautionary note on the application of limited genetics studies to whole populations
  329. "AI" == "vehicle"?
  330. Incredulous, incredible, whatever. . .
  331. Bopomofo Cafe
  332. Two-factor siege
  333. Tukey's birthday
  334. Blunt instrument
  335. Eggcorn of the month
  336. Zipf genius
  337. Pinyin Reading Materials
  338. Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs Extension J and the nature of the sinographic writing system
  339. Dungan radio broadcasts from 2018-2021
  340. Conversation with a Chinese restaurateur in a west central Mississippi town
  341. Persian language in the Indian subcontinent
  342. Plato's cave
  343. The linguistic pragmatics of LLMs
  344. "More and more less confident"
  345. Names as verbs
  346. "Good Science"
  347. Sinograph ambigram for "mindfulness"
  348. A 12th-century influencer
  349. Nll
  350. The grammar and sense of a poetic line
  351. AI schoolwork
  352. New Journal of Sinographic Studies
  353. "You will want to __"
  354. Nll
  355. De(semi)colonization
  356. LLMs that quack like a duck
  357. "Public Universal Friend"
  358. Drama at the National Spelling Bee
  359. The agonies of an ABC learning Chinese
  360. "The girls are fighting"
  361. Nll
  362. The gender of gender
  363. "Artificial Intelligence and its evil twin, Darwinism"
  364. "A tricky little area of semantics"
  365. Mapping the exposome
  366. Acronymomania, part 2
  367. English spelling
  368. Of a Persian spymaster and Viking Rus' in medieval East Asia: Scythia Koreana and Japanese Waqwaq
  369. Congee: the Dravidian roots of the name for a Chinese dish, part 2
  370. Self-aware LLMs?
  371. Commencement speech of Korean student at National Taiwan University (NTU)
  372. "Welcome in!", part 2
  373. Learning
  374. "Le mot, c'est moi"
  375. Tones and intonation in Sinitic languages
  376. The conundrum of singing with tones
  377. Big Beautiful Bill
  378. The implications of chimpanzee call combinations for the origins of language
  379. Mehercule?
  380. Nll
  381. Japan to limit glitzy names
  382. America's Most Misspelled Words
  383. Ch'oe Manli, anti-Hangul Confucian scholar
  384. "The great late Alphonse Capone"
  385. "It is forbidden to dog"
  386. Baker's octave
  387. Imagining reggae
  388. Dynamic Philology
  389. Pilled-maxxing
  390. A radical proposal for sinographs
  391. Sogdians on the Silk Road
  392. Superstition industry in the PRC: buzzwords as belief
  393. Untranslatability and human rights
  394. Bionic brains
  395. Grammatical intuition of ChatGPT
  396. Jianwei Xun: Fake philosopher
  397. R.I.P., John R. "Haj" Ross (1938-2025)
  398. Learning a Korean word from scratch, with a note on AI
  399. Sapir-Whorf redux
  400. Hangul as alphasyllabary
  401. Wildly popular pastry shop in Korea
  402. Nll
  403. How to say "Seoul"
  404. The origin of "thing" in Chinese
  405. Qiu Xigui (1935-2025)
  406. Papal Bayes?
  407. Replicate evolve the image…
  408. Luxembourgish and Limburgish
  409. Quadrilingual Poll Card from Singapore
  410. Monosyllabism
  411. Australian election slang
  412. Pope Francis' tombstone
  413. "Gentle parenting"
  414. Nll
  415. Quantum semantics and syntactic relativity
  416. Saturday Morning Breakfast Plurals
  417. Liberate Taiwan
  418. Neuropolitics news
  419. The burgeoning of Indo-European and the withering of many other languages
  420. The mathematics of kana vs. kanji usage over time (1879-1968)
  421. Best not to buy cheap audio gear
  422. Mangajin
  423. Striving to revive the flagging sinographic cosmopolis
  424. Topolect literature
  425. The beautiful virtue of the United States and Germany
  426. The magnitude of traditional Chinese literature
  427. Latinized Persian
  428. Battle for Taiwanese, part 2
  429. Study Reveals Most Popular American Texting Habits
  430. Easter: eggs and rabbits
  431. The multivalence of interjections
  432. RFK Jr on Autism
  433. Decipherment of the Indus script: new angles and approaches, part 4
  434. Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?
  435. Brain Mechanisms and Constructed Languages vs. Natural Languages
  436. Crosswalk protest art
  437. Linguistic relativity: snow and horses
  438. Mawkishly maudlin
  439. AI Sauce
  440. The creation of Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM)
  441. Mandarin disyllabism for beginners
  442. Romanized Japanese Bible translation
  443. Rime / rhyme tables / charts
  444. Cantonese as old and pure: a critique
  445. "Here comes the prince"
  446. Punctuation hanging out
  447. QWERTY forever: path dependency
  448. Shakespearean focus
  449. Whence cometh "Vicotr"?
  450. Viral plums
  451. A surfeit of katakana words: how do you say "woke" in Japanese?
  452. The meaning of "that": recency and the importance of context
  453. Cantonese is both very cool and very old
  454. The many names of Eadweard Muybridge (he of the phenomenal galloping horse photographs)
  455. Digital Hittite
  456. AI generated vocal model: Chinese popular ballad, Sandee Chan
  457. Decipherment of the Indus script: new angles and approaches, part 3
  458. PUA, part 2
  459. "Signals and Symbols in Linguistic Variation and Change"
  460. English rendition of Dream of the Red Chamber by Chinese translators
  461. Linguistic scholarship at the Supreme Court
  462. Nll
  463. Physics and linguistics notes on the formation of the vocabulary for quantum theory
  464. geheuer und Ungeheuer
  465. Decipherment of the Indus script: new angles and approaches, part 2
  466. A simple forks or no question
  467. American diplomat in Hong Kong reciting a Tang poem in Cantonese
  468. The origin of human language: cognition and communication
  469. Laying duck
  470. Words for "library" in Sanskrit: the future of information science
  471. Plummet's journey
  472. Erin go Bragh
  473. Phonemic analysis of animal sounds as spelled in various popular languages
  474. The Kushan Empire and its languages
  475. Philology vs. linguistics
  476. The politico-cultural implications of Taiwanese romanization
  477. Old Avestan lexicography
  478. IKEA: linguistics, esthetics, engineering, part 2
  479. Email etiquette!
  480. Sinitic topolects in a Canadian courtroom
  481. Linguistics bibliography roundup
  482. IKEA: linguistics, esthetics, engineering
  483. Spelling lesson
  484. Decipherment of the Indus script: new angles and approaches
  485. Vocabulary
  486. Was PIE SOV?
  487. A new voice morphing application
  488. Scream cipher
  489. "The Sway Mo' Blues"
  490. Pronouncing DOGE
  491. Another elephant in the room
  492. Pulmonic ingressive
  493. ChatGPT cat wound healing conversation
  494. AI Overview jokes
  495. Fried and steamed mud: food for the season
  496. Japanese "goods" | Chinese "guzi"
  497. Taiwan cares about its indigenous languages
  498. Suzhou rap sounds like it has a French accent
  499. ChatGPT does ASMR in Chinese
  500. Pervert warning
  501. The noninfallibility yet utility of AIO
  502. "Age against the machine"
  503. Hiberno-English: it's a soft day
  504. Pie charts and bar graphs
  505. Weird typo
  506. ISTORMI IDRAINI
  507. "Art does not make sense"
  508. Royal filled pauses
  509. "Thanks" in Hakka and other Sinitic topolects
  510. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
  511. Nll
  512. "Måke Califørnia Great Ægain"
  513. "Red, White, and Blueland"
  514. Greece without the Greek alphabet
  515. "Steak the First"
  516. PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi's not-so-subtle reprimand falls on deaf ears
  517. Insidious and invidious
  518. iRabbit
  519. Kiddo slang at warp speed
  520. Dictionary of Dunhuang Studies
  521. New Indo-European genetic evidence
  522. Kape: the language rope that binds the people of a remote Indonesian island
  523. The Power of Naming
  524. Sincerity
  525. Japanese, Chinese, and English mixed language and script
  526. No, no, no; yes, yes, yes
  527. "WHO is who it is"
  528. Stand in / on line
  529. Punxsutawney and Maxatawny
  530. Polysyllabism in Sinitic and (phonemic) syllable stress
  531. How to call your relations
  532. A different kind of snake year
  533. AI systems still can't count
  534. Does handwriting still matter?
  535. Slick, Slithery and Slippery
  536. Diplo speak: double talk
  537. Sino-American diplomatic slang in the mid-70s
  538. Mox nix
  539. Roman curse tablets
  540. The earliest kanji in Japan?
  541. A Greco-Bactrian Great Wall in Central Asia
  542. Zoroastrian "heaven"
  543. Transcription matters
  544. Just in case
  545. The dressing needs more chuckoo
  546. "'Throw a photo' in South Florida English" redux
  547. Calculus bovis: bezoar, part 3
  548. Tik Tok and Red Book
  549. "The Scandalous History of the Manhattan Cocktail"
  550. A brief literary linguistic analysis of the Gettysburg Address
  551. An unusual usage of verb "ship"
  552. Hokkien transcribed in sinographs
  553. New AI Pal problems
  554. Angrezi Devi: Goddess English
  555. Chicken or egg; grammar or language
  556. Speech-To-Text not quite perfect yet….
  557. "Risk is positive" < "Crisis = danger + opportunity" (not)
  558. A letter writer of / for the 20th and 21st century
  559. A plethora of katakana?
  560. AI Written, AI Read
  561. Xiongnu Official Title Danghu and Jurchen Tanggu ‘Hundred’
  562. Ramen Lo Mein lou1 min6, part 2
  563. New Korean words in the OED
  564. Hotdogs banned in North Korea
  565. Mystery of the day
  566. ADS WotY 2024
  567. Rebus of the week
  568. The phonotactics and graphic construction of "biang"
  569. Ramen Lo Mein lou1 min6
  570. Tragic Effle
  571. "Let it be" in Latin and Chinese
  572. Eagles and vultures
  573. Machine translators vs. human translators
  574. Comma/Period ratios
  575. Crisps and chips
  576. The cost of commas?
  577. Phenonemon?
  578. Sino-Roman World-Conquering Thearchs
  579. Exponential origami
  580. David Lodge
  581. Cutting edge calligraphy
  582. store by .jpg
  583. Civilized dog
  584. Turtle this and snake that
  585. Annals of Biang, Vienna edition
  586. The history of characters in computers
  587. Politicization of script in Taiwan
  588. Sooner than necessary
  589. Emoji has legal standing in Canadian courts
  590. American health care in 1754
  591. AIO: brain extension
  592. Nll
  593. Turtle this

2024 420

  1. Reflections on Alan Lomax and Bill Labov
  2. Etymology of ramen and katsu
  3. Semantic continuum
  4. Emily Wilson's Odyssey
  5. The transcendent, cosmic language of the Book of Changes
  6. Hu Shih and God: thearchs across Eurasia
  7. Winston Churchill quote in Japanese
  8. AI copy editing crapping?
  9. Kanji only, no kana
  10. "This intro is high-key gonna slap"
  11. "Current difficulties in achieving intersubjective agreement"
  12. "Bach Thing Day"
  13. Jingle Bells punned in Mandarin
  14. A seasonal song for Bill Labov
  15. More Labov remembrances
  16. Taiwanese phonetics
  17. Grok (mis-)counting letters again
  18. Space v. Time in the grammar of emojis
  19. Adjectival / adverbial insistence: PRC emphatic economics
  20. Moses editing
  21. Stollen: lumpy, dumpy, stumpy
  22. Panettone: augmentative of the diminutive
  23. Labov memorial event at the LSA
  24. Evolutionary semantics
  25. Tocharica et archaeologica
  26. RP prosody joke
  27. AI counting again
  28. New words
  29. The genomics of ancient East Asia
  30. The physics of phonetic symbolism
  31. Affected brogue
  32. city不city
  33. Bill Labov
  34. Ad hoc sinographic romanization in Indonesia
  35. Vire-langue ou célébration des homophones?
  36. Alphabetic "Mr." and "Mrs. / Ms." in Chinese
  37. "Not gonna lie"
  38. Ancient Japanese wisdom in modern times — supposedly
  39. Telegraph talkers
  40. This 'n that
  41. Ambisyllabicity
  42. God of Scrabble
  43. Spoken vs. written Sinitic
  44. Euler the sailor?
  45. Enigmatic writing from the Republic of Georgia
  46. Si Jia 司佳 (1978-2020): a remembrance
  47. Cleaner's sluice
  48. Who stuck fire up where?
  49. Hypertonal conlang
  50. "Rebel With A Clause"
  51. Mandarin topolect in the Congo
  52. The Knowledge
  53. More WotY action
  54. More AI satire
  55. The "Letter Equity Task Force"
  56. Iranians in medieval Scotland
  57. AI Overview (sometimes) admits that it doesn't have an answer
  58. Coyote warning
  59. Manchu is not dead
  60. Mandarin phonetic annotation for English
  61. Recycled bezoar, part 2
  62. Collection recursion
  63. Prepositional villains
  64. Recycled bezoar
  65. Number taboos in a Chinese elevator
  66. "You scalar implicature!"
  67. Nll
  68. The humanities as preparation for the End Times
  69. Searle's "Chinese room" and the enigma of understanding
  70. More WOTYs
  71. "National Linguistics Day"
  72. Macquarie's 2024 WoTY is "enshittification"
  73. Jonathan Swift v. Apostrophes
  74. Speech Data CCA
  75. Hate evil, part 2
  76. 'Warm Tips' in the wild
  77. "The Angry Grammarian: A New Musical"
  78. "Grammarian"
  79. Earliest alphabet
  80. Who wins in the end, grammarian or errorist?
  81. 3d Bluesky firehose
  82. Hate evil
  83. Sino-Roman hybrid characters, part 2
  84. The end of "Teaching Lucy"?
  85. Another mispronunciation by the Chinese president? Bilu or Milu for Peru
  86. The basis of coming and going
  87. Hangul for Cantonese
  88. Mesopotamian seals and the birth of writing
  89. Robert's Rules of Haka
  90. Diabasis
  91. "Neutrino Evidence Revisited (AI Debates)" | Is Mozart's K297b authentic?
  92. Chips, fleas, lovers, colors, and crusts
  93. Galen (129-216 AD) in China: cancer / crab
  94. Geometriphylogenetics
  95. Cognition, culture, … and communication?
  96. Biblical and Budai Taiwanese: vernacular, literary; oral, written
  97. Wristwatch
  98. Bayesian archeology
  99. Taiwan Mandarin vs. Mainland Mandarin
  100. Lewotobi Laki-laki
  101. Whimsical surnames, part 2 (again mostly German)
  102. A bushel of buzzwords from Japan; the advent of phoneticization
  103. Nazca lines
  104. The etymologies of ballot and bigot
  105. Not giving up on Hangul for Cia-Cia
  106. What does it mean to "wane philosophical"?
  107. That's a *móri
  108. Rapscallion
  109. The sentiment-laden deluge
  110. A garden-path sentence in the wild?
  111. Day(s) of the dead
  112. Remaining problems with TTS
  113. Who was Julia Emily Johnsen?
  114. Two for the toilet
  115. Anti-immigrant slurs: an American history
  116. Credulity in the service of clickbait
  117. Negotiating with hallucinations: Two controlled trials
  118. PRC censorship of Tūjué, an important historical name of the Turks
  119. Turco-Sogdian horses and languages
  120. Clatskanie
  121. Regional varieties of Cantonese
  122. Psychotic Whisper
  123. Among the new phrases…
  124. Zipf's demon
  125. Store sign in Taiwanese
  126. Trespassed update, part 2 (suicided)
  127. A:ñi 'ant wodalt
  128. Birdtalk
  129. Compound intensifier of the week
  130. "Knell in the coffin"
  131. A Sino-Iranian tale of the donkey's Eurasian trail, part 2
  132. Bizarre English-Japanese language confusion
  133. Frazz on lexical drift
  134. The Dalles, Dallesport, Dallas
  135. An unusual view of divine revelation
  136. PRC cyberspace authorities fight against bad memes and distorted pronunciation
  137. Annals of lenition
  138. Trespassed update
  139. Invisible text via Unicode tag characters
  140. Shaikh Zubayr
  141. Nll
  142. Southeast Asians learning Mandarin
  143. "Deppenapostrophe": Is English guilty after all?
  144. AI Hyperauthorship
  145. AI Overview: bits and pieces (German "ich" and Starbuck WA)
  146. Aurora (Colorado and Borealis)
  147. Ben Zimmer on Keywords
  148. AI Overview: Snake River and Walla Walla
  149. English is innocent
  150. Graphical Trumpian discourse analysis
  151. English influence on German spelling
  152. University commas
  153. Doing well
  154. PIE *g’enH1 and *gʷenH2 as cognates ("king" and "queen")
  155. Gyro, part 3
  156. "Lost" languages?
  157. Aborted character simplification in the mid-1930s
  158. Uyghur or Uygur
  159. AI triumphs… and also fails.
  160. A "Deep-Fried Ghost" for October
  161. Collective Noun Tea Towels
  162. B"H
  163. A bit on last night's debate
  164. "I will think fewer of you"
  165. Junks and sampans
  166. Linear algebra and wine
  167. The languages of refugees fleeing to Bosnia
  168. "She stopped every single one of them"
  169. Silent Suiters
  170. Gobsmacked!
  171. Gyro, part 2
  172. Is English a "creole language"?
  173. Freudian slip of the week
  174. Our supersubstantial rice
  175. "The cosmic jam from whence it came"
  176. Dimsum: dot your heart
  177. Words for king: Greek, Tocharian, Sinitic
  178. Pre-pre-meetings
  179. Pun of the week: Singer songwriter
  180. "Garbage time of history", part 2
  181. Political deepfakes
  182. "A fancy way to say 'fancy'"
  183. Teeth as part of the vocal tract
  184. International Talk Like a Pirate Day, again…
  185. Trump all-caps theories
  186. Genealogy rocks
  187. Vanceism of the week: "Haitia"
  188. Can Google AI count?
  189. Mormon Tabernacle Choir vowel variations
  190. Is there evidence of senility in Trump's speech?
  191. Cultural literacy at The Guardian
  192. Font making for oracle bone inscription studies
  193. Ask LLOG: Semicolons used as commas?
  194. AI-based DeepL is different
  195. How to say "AI" in Mandarin
  196. What did Rich Lowry say?
  197. The City of Angels in Latin
  198. “Weak point; holler louder!”
  199. Trump as brass: score
  200. Trump as brass
  201. "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire"
  202. French Horn Church
  203. Is there a finite number of pronunciations for anything?
  204. "Bone Apple Tea"
  205. Quantifying the debate
  206. Yet again the Voynich manuscript
  207. "Word salad"
  208. "Welcome in!"
  209. "The Truth About English Grammar"
  210. "…X, let's say Y…"
  211. Berber, emic vs. etic
  212. Type-token plots in The Economist
  213. China flavor
  214. Where weave is from
  215. German linguist Möllendorff and the earliest recordings of Chinese
  216. Body wash
  217. Australian government assessment of AI vs. human performance
  218. Trump's rhetorical "weave"
  219. Crab raccoon, part 2
  220. Crab raccoon
  221. Transcription conventions
  222. Japan's favorite aphorism about eggplants
  223. Putin: "pollutant"? "pooch and"?
  224. Writing with AI
  225. The Old Turkic origins of the Tang Dynasty
  226. "Teacher voice"
  227. Eric Doty duels with Grammarly
  228. "Within one year or more" ???
  229. Doing a literature
  230. The beauty of open access
  231. Nll
  232. Pitfalls of machine translation
  233. Freemium worship
  234. Old, new, and mixed Cantonese colloquialisms
  235. AIs on Rs in "strawberry"
  236. Kinds of science
  237. Stop throwing eggs and get to work
  238. More on gendered badass
  239. The Welsh heritage of Philadelphia
  240. "Badass"
  241. "I didn’t save you because you’re not important."
  242. Elective affinities: Japanese bonds of affection
  243. Triple review of books on characters and computers
  244. "I" again?
  245. Tones, Then and Now
  246. Regional claims on "yeah no / no yeah"
  247. A Hainanese mystery
  248. Personification
  249. Sino-Persian chimera
  250. Internet IDs for China
  251. Middle Vernacular Sinitic culture
  252. More problems
  253. 'Tis the summer season for choking off VPNs
  254. Scone geography
  255. Taiwan(ese) Taiwanese, part 3
  256. More (dis?)fluent interpolations
  257. Nagoya Dialect and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
  258. The past, present, and future of Sinography
  259. The simian technology of voice impersonation
  260. Harris'(s)
  261. It's Japanese soup
  262. More probably
  263. A medieval Chinese cousin of Eastern European cherry pierogi?
  264. Theme — border Russian: variations — cats
  265. Prefixes and suffixes for common Japanese dishes
  266. The Sinitic Word for "million" in Southeast Asian Mandarin, part 2
  267. Tocharian in South Asian languages?
  268. Probably
  269. The Sinitic Word for "million" in Southeast Asian Mandarin
  270. A new Trump speaking style?
  271. Primate preferences
  272. Griffins: the implications of art history for language spread
  273. Refugees
  274. The Englishization of Chinese enters a new phase
  275. Phoshime
  276. Magisterial German translation of a neglected monument of ancient Chinese literature, Mu Tianzi Zhuan
  277. The wisdom of puns
  278. This is just to say
  279. Skinning a bear with Rosanne Barr
  280. Watermarking AI output, again
  281. Rethinking the Yuezhi?
  282. What AI is (not) good for?
  283. Yuezhi archeology without concern for Tocharian language
  284. Mongolian text-to-speech, online transliterator of Cyrillic to classical script
  285. The language of citizenship
  286. "Conservative"?
  287. Streets named after idioms
  288. When AI hallucinations are a Good Thing
  289. "Asylum"
  290. What it's like inside the Great Firewall
  291. "Garbage time of history"
  292. Yay Newfriend in a pendant
  293. Muxu meat dishes: the art of bricolage
  294. Present prison president
  295. Taiwan(ese) Taiwanese, part 2
  296. The classification of [nan] Chinese (Min Nan)
  297. Annals of intervocalic coronal reduction
  298. "Protein" in Chinese and Japanese
  299. English usage in Taiwan
  300. The transformative power of translation
  301. Capitalization in the constitution?
  302. Taiwan(ese) Taiwanese
  303. Deutsche Zungenbrecher
  304. Reading Old Turkic runiform inscriptions with the aid of 3D simulation
  305. Government dampers on AI in the PRC, part 2
  306. New horizons in word sense analysis
  307. Topolect: a Four-Body Problem
  308. Little Italian girl talking with her hands
  309. China VPN redux
  310. No "good morning" and "good afternoon" in Romance Languages?
  311. Government dampers on AI in the PRC
  312. The true identity of the first Chinese translator of Lady Chatterley's Lover
  313. "Fisherman Croc's desert song"?
  314. Japanese expressions for some paranormal phenomena
  315. IRL reverse dictionary
  316. Graphic Contexts Determine Characters' Functions
  317. Irish eggcorns
  318. Food in the works of Jane Austen as seen by early 20th-century Chinese
  319. Top Chinese general loses his chastity
  320. OpenAI blocks API traffic from China
  321. Environmental effects on language change
  322. Milk tea
  323. Singing Presidents (a triumph of Chinese AI)
  324. Our journey journey
  325. Click click
  326. Bilingual Chinese lesbian slang dictionary
  327. The evolving PubMed landscape
  328. A Romano-Sarmatian soldier in circa 2nd c. AD Britain
  329. Another meme collision
  330. Meme collision of the week
  331. Kanji brush writing on an iPad
  332. Are LLMs writing PubMed articles?
  333. Text trumps art
  334. Bird, boy, girl, dog, recorder: etymology unknown
  335. The evolution of verbal interpolations
  336. Script origin and typology, part 2
  337. The meaning of bracket symbols
  338. Charon's obol
  339. Huaxia: pre-Han cognomen of the Middle Kingdom
  340. Tocharo-Sinica and Sogdo-Sinica
  341. Malapropism of the week
  342. Script origin and typology, part 1
  343. Paris Hilton's vocal registers
  344. Astonishing new Google Translate, with the help of generative AI
  345. Logos: The sacred phonology, mathematics, and agriculture of the alphazodiac
  346. Acronymity
  347. Franklin (1773) on colonial obligations
  348. Diagramming: history of the visualization of grammar in the 19th century
  349. Eggcorn of the week: "checks every block"
  350. Good news for Tangutologists
  351. Stochastic parrots extended
  352. Pronunciation guides fail spectacularly
  353. Internet as Russian dialect enabler
  354. Harsh brown
  355. Not just Oxford commas
  356. Cenrtal Philadelphia
  357. Baby talk
  358. World word: soap
  359. Video slang
  360. The semiotics of barbed wire fence
  361. Political implications of book placement
  362. Demic and cultural factors in the spread of Austronesian languages in Southeast Asia
  363. Exercising the brain: handwriting vs. typing
  364. Mathematical synchronicity in the comics
  365. Mandarin translation issues impeding the courts in New York
  366. Menu worms
  367. Nll
  368. Comparative scriptural interpretation of the midrashim and the Analects
  369. Rome Pride
  370. Unknown language #19
  371. Accent bias
  372. Corn bread palate
  373. Mutable predicate-argument arrangements
  374. "Dutch roll"
  375. AI plagiarism again
  376. Respect the local pronunciation: runza and Henri
  377. Dark cuisine
  378. Gender, dialect, and taboo vocabulary in court
  379. Nll
  380. ChatGPT is bullshit
  381. Povinelli et al. on "Reinterpretation"
  382. A Kuchean shift in terminology from Indo-Iranian to Tocharian
  383. Fissures in the Great Firewall caused by X
  384. AI deception?
  385. Mixing (or ignoring?) metaphors
  386. Nebraska: "Flat Water"
  387. Unknown language #10, part 2
  388. Frociaggine
  389. Roman dodecahedra between Southeast Asia and England, part 5
  390. Of chariots, chess, and Chinese borrowings
  391. The evolution of metaphors?
  392. xkcd: Fluid Speech
  393. Spelling Manchu with Chinese characters
  394. Bride of Tamil Nadu
  395. Roman dodecahedra between Southeast Asia and England, part 4
  396. The ideology of legal corpus linguistics
  397. Unknown language #18
  398. Taiwanese romanization and subtitles
  399. It is that time of the year again
  400. Virgin birth
  401. Microsoft Copilot goes looking for an obscure sinograph
  402. DJT nearly (or barely?) escaped death . . .
  403. The future of AI
  404. A one-sided war of words, via drone
  405. Headline puzzle of the day
  406. LLMs for judicial interpretation of "ordinary meaning"
  407. We need libraries and we need computers
  408. Do linguistics still matter?
  409. Mixed script writing in Taiwan, part 2
  410. The perception and construction of Hong Kong identity via the quotation of non-standard Cantonese
  411. Sinicization of language and culture (architecture in particular)
  412. The poetics of translation and the synesthesia of appreciation
  413. "Lord of Heaven" in ancient Sino-Iranian
  414. The modernity of the Middle Ages
  415. Hermaphrodite vs. intersex in Mandarin
  416. OpenAI's Chinese problem
  417. Gecko noises and human anxieties
  418. "Cooperate him"
  419. Roman dodecahedra between Southeast Asia and England, part 3
  420. Multiple possible parsings of strings of sinographs