Link love: language (81) 0 ▲ Sentence first 2 hours ago · Writing · hide It’s been an age since my last batch of language links. Please enjoy this random-ish selection of linguistic items that caught my eye since then. I omitted a few that required registration or subscription, but let me know if you run into any difficulty with the remaining ones. Sheesh. Footwear etymologies. ‘Crosswordese’, counted. On the hyphen in Moby-Dick. When will Modern English end? Comparing translations of Borges. The first monolingual Irish dictionary. Anatomical names can be an Achilles heel. We need to talk about how we talk about ‘AI’. Speculative Grammarian has ceased publication. Vale! RhymeHamster, a (human-curated) rhyming dictionary. What Ellen Jovin learned from helping strangers with their grammar. A ‘doom spiral’ of machine-translating Wikipedia into minority languages. On the origins of language, specifically of arbitrary words. How misnegation and overnegation can trip up writers. What it’s like to be an audiobook narrator [podcast]. The phrase short story is just… Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town
