From Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Alan Reed Libert (Newcastle): Comparing Comparatives in Artificial Languages. The first scholar to seriously study Sanskrit puns and bitextual poems, Sanskritist Yigal Bronner found that it was a popular literary device until colonial times. Research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world. Who will mourn the world's dead languages? Lost in translation: We don’t shape language, language shapes us. The evolution of the English language: Love it or loath it, the English language is evolving. All hail goddess English? Bilingualism is good for the brain: The longer a person has spoken two or more languages, the greater the cognitive effects. Google teams with linguists to document endangered languages. Does your language shape how you think? The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all. Dictionary of slang: Jeremy Noel-Tod on the power of slang to revitalise everyday language. A review of The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel by Nicholas Ostler. Language appears to shape our implicit preferences. Research in the crib: What happens when language scientists use their own children as test subjects? Don't believe the hype about Aborigines, Yiddish, or Ebonics, says John McWhorter. Researchers are fine-tuning a computer system that is trying to master semantics by learning more like a human. A review of Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher (and more and more and more and more and more and more). Researchers have designed a computer system that does successfully model the logic and intuition of a human to decipher a language. Francois Grosjean on his book Bilingual: Life and Reality. The English Language Unity Act: Big Government only a Tea Partier could love. A research team came across a “hidden” language, known locally as Koro, completely new to the world outside a few rural communities in northeastern India (and more and more). From List Magazine, how to say a few words in 10 languages that will soon be extinct.
