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2025-10-23 @ 10.16.49 ∈ In English

Rubenerd: Bring back the letter thorn (þ)
You don’t realise how much English depends on þat sound until you see þ littered all over þe place.
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2025-07-19 @ 9.58.27 ∈ In English

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family’s origins
The study finds the ancestors of present-day Uralic speakers living about 4,500 years ago in northeastern Siberia, within an area now known as Yakutia.
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2024-12-13 @ 16.55.05 ∈ In English

Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not speaking Spanish
Nigel Richards has also been champion in English and – after memorising dictionary in nine weeks – French
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2024-09-16 @ 19.27.59 ∈ In English

(2015 vintage)

Guy annoys girlfriend with puns at Ikea
We moved in together recently so had to make the unavoidable trip to IKEA; I figured out how to get through there as quickly as possible.
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2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English

(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)

AI and the American Smile
Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.
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2024-06-23 @ 16.09.10 ∈ In English

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How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords
If there’s one thing cult leaders do, it’s talk. A LOT. Language is an integral part of how cults keep their members bonded, isolated and obedient.
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2024-02-12 @ 16.00.14 ∈ In English

(I don’t know if this proves what it’s set out to prove, but I just found the exercise of pondering my answers interesting.)

No Vehicles In The Park
This is a game about language and rules. It consists of 27 questions, but after the first seven, you can skip to the end.
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2024-01-16 @ 16.59.33 ∈ In English

Using iNaturalist to learn names in other languages · iNaturalist
Now, you can see common names in multiple languages! iNaturalist has been translated into 57 languages, but many people want to use the platform in one language while learning common names in another. We’ve recently added functionality to address this, allowing you to experience iNaturalist with multilingual common names.